venturebeat.com - 12/5/2008
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When his fourth Xbox 360 video game console died in April, Chris Szarek wasn’t surprised. The Chicopee, Mass. gamer was accustomed to the hardware failures that became known throughout the Internet as RROD, or the “ red rings of death ” which flash when the console becomes inoperable. A ...
anandtech.com - 12/11/2008
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anandtech.com —
And I thought the reason people bought consoles
was to avoid dealing with the hardware nitty-gritty. First...
let's get the codenames right. The first Xbox 360 was released in 2005 and used a motherboard codenamed Xenon. The Xenon platform featured a ...
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Jasper Is Here: A Look at the New Xbox 360
hothardware.com - 12/1/2008
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hothardware.com —
On November 19, Microsoft released its new dashboard,
dubbed "The New Xbox Experience". This free firmware update...
is mandatory for all consoles that connect to Xbox Live, and aims to redefine how users both use the Xbox and interact online. The new ...
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The New Xbox 360 Experience In-depth Review
computerworld.com - 12/6/2008
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computerworld.com —
December 5, 2008 (Computerworld) As expected, Microsoft Corp.
launched the first public beta of Windows Vista Service...
Pack 2 (SP2) late yesterday, making it available for download from both its Web site and through its update mechanism. On Tuesday, ...
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Microsoft slaps Vista SP2 beta on Windows Update
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Console Gamers, Take Off Your Blinders
PWNING 9-5 —
... Ugh, there's no space to re-hash the history of the RROD issue here, but the fact is that millions and millions of XBOX360's have failed since launch, scores of people have had to deal with 3, 4, 5 bad systems in a row, and the whole thing has so far cost Microsoft over $1B. Field failure rates soared over 16.5% earlier this year. Further, Wikipedia has a whole page dedicated to ...
Jasper Is Here: A Look at the New Xbox 360
AnandTech Article Channel —
... size, but it's a problem that impacts enough Xbox 360 owners for it to be a real issue. While Microsoft has yet to publicly state the root cause of the problem, we finally have a Microsoft that's willing to admit that its consoles had an unacceptably high rate of failure in the field. The Microsoft solution was to extend all Xbox 360 warranties for the RRoD to 3 years, a solution that managed to help most users but not all. No one ever got to the bottom of what caused the RRoD. Many suspected that it was the lead-free solder balls between the CPU and/or GPU and the ...
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