Both the original 40's and the newer 40 and 80 models do indeed YLOD, seen plenty at work.  At the moment it does appear to be far worse on the 60GB which could be just due to a lack of understanding of lead free solder use in BGA chips when they released the first models.  The YLOD on newer consoles at the moment I'd guess is still within normal failure rates for electronic devices.  The reason this sitution is getting worse is primarily because the 60GB's are getting older.

Yes, this dude I know had it break and since it was a random sample of some random dude it must be scientific evidence. When research is done correctly you have all the answers!!! Hell yah!!!

No, its hardly a problem at all. 360 fanboys are trying to make it sound like as big a problem as RRoD was but its not a big issue.

YLOD is not that hard to fix.

well, from what we've seen, ps3 has somewhere in the 15% failure rate iirc. Pretty bad, but I've noticed that perhaps we are exposed to it more than the average population.

No, it's not.

15 percent is all PS3 failures not just YLOD.

This. If it were out of hand it would be more mainstream like RROD was.

Reading about console failures, on a console forum isnt alarming, still anything above whatever the normal electronic fail rate is, is unacceptable imo, dont knwo what the actual numbers are, but thats probably because its not absurd and not a huge deal or else it would be insanely easy to find data.

Gee, I hope mine holds on.  It sucks if I have to then go get a PS2 to play my PS2 games on it.

[Imitating Kelso] Burn!