that sucks balls. never heard of this problem.

Yeah, I have found salvation in The Witcher.  I didn't realize the Enhanced Edition content was already out.  I am installing it all right now.  In fact, I'm going to start the game all over again since I haven't played it in so long and didn't get that far into it in the first place.  I am going to be all about The Witcher until I get my Xbox back.  I did buy Fable II today, but I'm trying to come up with other games to be excited about, and I forgot all about this gem that I never gave a good amount of playing time to.

Well mine die on the 6th, I send it out on the 8th and got it back on the 17th.  So about 9 days total.  You have to keep in mind where you live in relation to the service center.  I live in Washington and the transit time is 4 days by standard ground UPS service.

I heard stories of people on the phone for hours trying to get the repair order, doing all the usual unplug this, turn that off etc and then wait months to get the console back.  So yes to me that's very fast service.

Why is it bad to praise good service by MS without having Sony fanboys like you flock in the question my statement?  Please note I didn't praise MS for their crappy hardware and never will.  I like how you have to add that your friend PS3 died because it his own fault.  Go read other forum like NeoGaf there are plenty of dead PS3 from bricking due to the multiple firmware updates, dead Blu-ray drive (most common) and the fail power unit.   Or you can look on eBay and see how many "as is" PS3 is up for sale.

And while you are there you can read all the horror story about some has to pay $160.00 to repair PS3 because someone didn't used the approve HDMI cable, or wait months to get back 60GB unit if you happen to be in Europe where 60GB are scarce.   But that doesn't make me question you if you telling the truth about your "friend".  If my PS3 ever died, I am sure hope I get the same great service.

You can be a fanboy but please don't be a troll.

still no harware is perfect, and even so both sony an nintendo failure rate are well below 2%.

still you are not hearing the good part of the story many of those like squilliam and making music got their ps3 repaired for free even after warranty expired.

on the other way m$ managed to get 10 million 360 broken to the market.

I know how you feel.  It was terrible not having my 360 for almost 2 weeks.  I was so giddy when I saw the UPS guy!

Anyway, I did finally finish Titan Quest on the PC while my 360 was in repair.

@Jo21

You are obviously not reading my post. I didn't said once that Sony service is / was bad, but because I am reading about bad service by some Sony owner doesn't make me question about his anecdote regarding his friend's PS3.

I am sure there are plenty of people that get bad service from Microsoft I am just telling that I have a wonderful experience which is a nice thing. Of course Sony fanboys have to instantly question what is my meaning of "fast and painless" like I made that up to make MS look good. Please no one like their console dead after a year so I am no less piss at MS piss poor hardware but I do give credit when one is due. If I get great experience from Sony I am sure would be posting the same thing here.

Oh, since you also miss this bit of my post -

You can be a fanboy but please don't be a troll.

And to ask this again
How someone can check if he has the Jusper or Falcon model?

I've been looking around, and there's really no good way to tell, at least not yet.  You can try to go by date, but that's not always reliable.  Supposedly anything manufactured after August 08 is probably a Jasper, but who knows?