XBOX 360 Red Ring Death

Let's see.... You: wasted ~$400 by smashing yours to pieces Me: got it fixed for FREE I'm smarter?

Not necessairily. He just has more money.

True. Plus, if you get the arcade version (no hard drive), it's only like $200.

The new PS3 Slim is only 299 now too. It went on sale exactly 2 weeks after I bought my other, regular one.

You may be able to wait and sell your non-slim PS3 (after people finish off-loading for the slim) for a decent price. The slim version does not support installing another OS, so I'm sure there will be people looking to build Linux PS3 clusters interested in your console.

I suspect that this is the very reason that Sony cut the feature. Things like a government open request-for-quote for hundreds of PS3s for a super-computing initiative were excellent hype for Sony's Cell chip, but ultimately cost them money. Time to force these people to buy the (by now mature) product offerings designed for such things and cash in.

What does that have to do with Xbox red ring of death?

Nothing. It has to do with the post I responded to, where D3V seemed annoied that he managed to buy a PS3 at the exact wrong time.

Stay on topic or I will have to ask an admin to think about giving you a warning.

Warned. Officially.

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