Final-Fan said:
He's stingy in that he was holding out for a better VALUE, not necessarily better PRICE. So, yes, well spotted. I see you can't do it. (If you think it'll make a difference, I'll accept it if you can produce such a gaming PC with the higher failure rate.) I expected as much, as it was a rhetorical question. (Fine, technically a rhetorical request.) |
No, you could easily make a more powerful PC than the 360 for about $300 -- but you'd need time to watch for deals. You can get video cards more powerful than the 360's card for very cheap if you watch sites like slickdeals and you can wait a few weeks and are willing to deal with rebates. Of course, you could build it without a hard drive, or with a ridiculously small hard drive like 120GB, but often times the really good deals on drives are for a specific size (say, 320GB) and you can't just pick and choose any given combination of hardware on those kinds of constraints.
As far as the ~30% failure rate goes, the jury is still out on the new hardware. The fact that MS is sending out refurbs that have a very high failure rate, and the fact that people have been reporting failures from consoles purchased for or after Christmas 2007 in the SA thread about broken Xbox 360s (which is only 3700 posts long right now, suggest that the failure rate is possibly better than it was in the past, but certainly still very, very bad. Almost certainly higher than 10%. I'm not prepared to give MS the benefit of the doubt on this as they've said several times that they've fixed the Xbox 360 problems.
