Goodbye, old friend (and f**k you, MSFT)

[NJ5]

thetonestarr said:

Mvp4eVa said:
Its true metal absorb heat, That is if not generating heat itself like the CABLE BOX does.

Cable box (while plugged in) generates heat also transfers heat to anything it sits on..

The Cable Box is trying to get rid of heat so the Xbox 360, add does two and all they will do is exchange heat that only increase in temperatures to each other..

Which is why you'd be a complete moron to run the two together, or near the same times. Obviously it's not going to absorb heat if it's generating its own.

Besides, there's zero reason to run them both at the same time, so that's practically a nonissue anyways. However, it does become an issue if you run the 360 directly after watching TV... but that's a rare situation as well so it's also not a big concern.

 

The point is, yeah, it's not the best of ideas to have it set up that way. But it's obviously not as big a deal as everybody's making it out to be. It's incredible how misinformed so many of you are.

So you agree with most people's point that he shouldn't set it up that way, good to know.

And of course your theories only work if no devices are running at the same time as you said (for example you may have a DVD recorder running at the same time, or any number of other situations), and if they're made of metal which isn't always the case.

Seems like people aren't minsinformed, they're simply cautious and making less assumptions than you.