Text 8415, 108 rader
Skriven 2005-11-25 16:18:10 av Rich Gauszka (1:379/45)
   Kommentar till text 8414 av Tony Williams (1:379/45)
Ärende: Re: Xbox 360 renamed Crash Box?
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From: "Rich Gauszka" <gauszka@hotmail.com>

Sounds like MS went cheap with their 360  power bricks. I wonder what the loss
per box would be if they included an adequate power supply? - BusinessWeek
reports it at $126 currently.

http://businessweek.com/technology/content/nov2005/tc20051122_410710.htm

BREAKING IT DOWN.  An up-close look at the components and other materials used
in the high-end version of the Xbox 360, which contains a hard drive, found
that the materials inside the unit cost Microsoft $470 before assembly. The
console sells at retail for $399, meaning a loss of $71 per unit -- and that is
just the start.

Other items packaged with the console -- including the power supply, cables,
and controllers -- add another $55 to Microsoft's cost, pushing the loss per
unit to $126. These estimates include assumptions that Microsoft is getting a
discount on many components.


"Tony Williams" <tonyw@blarg.net> wrote in message news:43877c7b@w3.nls.net...
> It could be just flaky power supplies:
> http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=27930
>
> --
> Tony
>
> Rich Gauszka wrote:
>> I was out on Tuesday morning in a futile attempt to purchase a 360 but
>> there were far to many 'blanket people' who waited hours in line at the
>> various stores. Also most of the stores that had some inventory for the
>> blanket people only had the green box basic units left.
>>
>> I'll just wait till after the holidays now as I want the harddrive unit
>> with the hi-def cables plus MS hopefully will fix any problems by then
>>
>> I wasn't aware of any ventilation noise problems regarding the 360 now
>> I'll definitely have to check that out before purchase   - thanks
>>
>>
>>
>> "Tony Williams" <tonyw@blarg.net> wrote in message
>> news:438620b0$1@w3.nls.net...
>>
>>>I've been following this because I quite like the idea of getting a 360.
>>>From what I can see the crashes all seem to be hardware related, probably
>>>to do with overheating. I say that because the crashes that have been
>>>reported happen in random places and some people have said that they
>>>stopped after moving the Xbox to a better ventilated space.
>>>
>>>I find that quite believable in a new piece of kit and I expect they'll
>>>have it fixed soon. On the downside, the 360's fan already makes it
>>>uncomfortably loud for the living room according to some reportrs.
>>>
>>>Just another reason to avoid 1.0 releases.
>>>
>>>--
>>>Tony
>>>
>>>Rich Gauszka wrote:
>>>
>>>>Yet another MS product rushed to the shelves?
>>>>
>>>>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/23/AR200511230
2142.html
>>>>
>>>>Gamers Seeing Glitches in New Xbox
>>>>Console Crashes, Freezes Have Been Reported
>>>>
>>>>Microsoft's Xbox 360, the much-anticipated video game system that made
>>>>its debut earlier this week, is apparently experiencing some technical
>>>>glitches -- screens freezing only minutes into a game, for example --
>>>>and that has left some users pretty upset.
>>>>
>>>>At gamer-oriented Web sites, Xbox 360 owners have reported system
>>>>crashes in games such as the space-marines-vs.-aliens title Quake 4.
>>>>
>>>>One owner complained that his new console tries to read the shooter game
>>>>Perfect Dark Zero as a DVD movie. Another posted a video file of the
>>>>game Project Gotham Racing 3 freezing up before the player had even
>>>>finished the first lap of the driving game.
>>>>
>>>>Brian Crecente, who runs the game-fan site Kotaku.com, said his Xbox 360
>>>>locked up three times, causing him to lose a couple of hours' worth of
>>>>progress in a Western-themed action game called Gun.
>>>>
>>>>At Web sites devoted to the new Xbox, some owners were already
>>>>expressing regret that they had spent up to $400 for the console -- not
>>>>including games.
>>>>
>>>>"Up until today I was pretty much an Xbox fanboy," wrote one gamer whose
>>>>online moniker is Kulanose. "But after spending 6 and a half hours
>>>>outside uncontrollably [shivering] for something that doesn't work right
>>>>. . . they just lost me and a bunch of people I know."
>>>>
>>>>Over at techno-geek Web site Slashdot, some readers were already trying
>>>>to diagnose the system's problems from images that had been posted on
>>>>the Web and come up with their own solutions.
>>>>
>>>>"Let's rename it to crash-box," one visitor wrote.
>>>>
>>>>Microsoft has said it hopes to sell 3 million units of the new game
>>>>consoles in its first 90 days.
>>>>
>>

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