[QUOTE="gamer7890"][QUOTE="Shafftehr"]Yeah, that works great... Until you try and cross the border and declare it and have duty slapped on it. Shafftehr
pshh just hide it under something...:P ... and pray you're not the guy they pull over, or you'll stand to maybe lose your PS3 or get a substantial fine. At the point where you start suggesting border smuggling to get the price, it's no longer a deal. Open the box, put the PS3 in some random bag or suitcase, and in case you get stopped say you just took it with you in the first place, and that it isn't new-bought?
[QUOTE="Shafftehr"][QUOTE="Xolver"] If anyone had to use the Zune from 2AM to whenever, for whatever reason, they couldn't. That's unreliability. I never said it was strictly hardware failure, though every Zune 'hardware' couldn't have been used for a period of time. Since it didn't happen to every other device in the world, then yeah, it does have to do strictly with Microsoft's bad hands. Mountain out of a mole-hill. If this type of thing, a one-night, several hour outage were what we thought of as "unreliable hardware," we would be *so* much better off than with generations of failing NES's, PS1/PS2's, XBOX 360's, LCDs and HDTVs, exploding batteries, uninstalls wiping hard-drives, etc etc etc. In reality, this "unrelaible hardware" and "Microsoft's bad hands" consisted of something that is in the same ball park as a PC's necessary security update - something that happens all the time as a regular matter of course. Heck, they could have called this a security update, had it done the exact same thing, and there wouldn't be people calling it "unreliable hardware," they'd have completely ignored it. And to mirror my last sentiment, "yet here we are," and I'll repeat... Mountain out of a mole-hill. If this is the Zune's version of reliable hardware, it is a reliable piece of hardware. Things that don't work for several minutes could ruin your day, like if it's a diskette holding a PowerPoint presentation, and there are even suits over temporarily malfunctioning products. Zune just lucked out with being in the night, and being a media player. Having said that, YOU'RE the one who's making a "mountain out of a mole-hill." The QUOTED article was just a humorous piece of writing (was from a site that's banned in GS, but I see it's in other places too). You're not supposed to overreact.
LMFAO at Topic Creator!! Oh wow.. Look into the issue more kid. Software failure on ONE simple driver, and every Zune will fixitself in 24 hours. Mine, well it never froze sooh well :)
Now lets look at all the crap iPod and Apple put us through with there half baked product, eh? Making you pay fora new device toget an update. I think I will stick to my Zune that still gets all the updates and runs a lot more stablethan any iPod I have seen.
Oh by the way, my 360 never failed, so, your little "fact" of the 360 having a 100% failure rate is totally false.
[QUOTE="Shafftehr"][QUOTE="jonnyt61"]To all the people saying their Zune works fine now... It will :| You were most likely asleep, or too drunk to notice, but last night, your Zune would have been unusable. The internal clock on -all- 30GB Zunes bugged out, because of the Leap Year. I'm struggling to believe your Zunes came with unique internal clocks. If that is the case, this has nothing to do with hardware failure... It has to do with extremely temporary self-correcting glitch. I hardly think that could be used as a dig on reliability - but, here we are in a thread about that. If anyone had to use the Zune from 2AM to whenever, for whatever reason, they couldn't. That's unreliability. I never said it was strictly hardware failure, though every Zune 'hardware' couldn't have been used for a period of time. Since it didn't happen to every other device in the world, then yeah, it does have to do strictly with Microsoft's bad hands.
'Microsoft is just squeezing in under the wire to claim the rights to "weirdest tech story of the year."Last night at approximately 2 AM, every 30GB Zune model on the planet crashed... The Zunes reset, powered up, then froze on the loading bar screen, and no conventional method of resetting them appears to work.
This is brought to you courtesy of Microsoft, who has been selling a video game console with a nearly 100% fail rate for three years. The Zune situation is all the more disastrous however seeing as all of them failed at the exact same moment, which people have taken to calling 2K9.'From the same company that brought you the Red Ring: Y2K9, Death of the Zunes."
Shamelessly stolen from another site that shouldn't be too difficult to find.
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