So, when I write articles, I like to write my piece and then research what other people have to say. After finishing my XBOX 360 RROD article (coming to a thread near you :icon_bigg), I set out to find anything interesting floating 'round the interwebs. Well, after laughing my head off at 98% of what I read on the topic, a beaming ray of light shown upon one article. It's an interview with a chap who has actually worked on the 360 project for some time. It's quite a technical interview, but even if you only follow the project management info and skip the hardware stuff, it's still incredibly enlightening: http://blog.seattlepi.com/digitaljoystick/archives/129866.asp -ud
that's like pocket change to Bill Gates and crew though probably even more once Windows 7 is released
This 'shock' article is dated Jan '08... sorry, I just don't think that 1.5 years after an event it's still 'news'. It's an historical snap shot of what everyone is now pretty much familiar with.
Think you mean E74. I think its a cascade failure though, at least with the older 360s. I've fixed a lot of RRODs only to have them come back to me with the E74 a few weeks/months later. The GPU cooks the scaler chip rather nicely and really should have additional cooling so that the air coming off the chip doesn't get warm enough in the first place to do it. With Falcons I see more E74s than RRODs. Or you know a good design that doesn't involve airflow over a critical and sensitive part.
Totally. Probably as close as you are going to get: http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?showtopic=505987 -ud
$2 billion? That's not chump change to any corporation. And in this case, I'd say probably not right. How are you measuring the costs? The same way cops say they found 2 million of Coke when the wholesale price is about 20% of that.
Pepsi not that hot then? If only the Xbox 360 was made by Sega, the management would be commiting seppuku in public.
