These links should explain it pretty well:

http://www.anandtech.com/gadgets/showdoc.aspx?i=3472
http://www.anandtech.com/gadgets/showdoc.aspx?i=3472&p=2

You take a magic 8 ball with you to the best buy, put one hand on the 360 box, and shake the 8 ball with your other hand while asking, is this a jasper?

If signs point to yes, then you got yourself a jasper.

How can you confirm how much the new ones break when they just started releasing them recently? Even if you bought one of the Jaspers and it broke right away then that is just a bad one because anything that breaks a couple days after you buy it there is something wrong with it as it should at least last a year.

As for the starter kit, thats what I was looking for and they were sold out, thats why I went with the Pro with the 12,1A;5V rating I found and picked up a 12+1Mo. Gold Card to go with it. As I said, assuming Arcade and Pro systems use the SAME exact Xbox360 core systems (which i've read many places that they do) then this is a new revision console. I wish I actually could find a starter kit, but the best buy is so far from my house I didn't want to have to keep checking back, and their site has them back ordered as well.

Other things of note which may not be an issue if they come out with a new bundle, the 360 pro bundles are horrible. Lego indiana jones? Who the hell wants this crap? Kung-Fu Panda? The movie was pretty good but the game is a no interest for me. If they come out with a better holiday bundle i'm going to exchange the system for a better bundle.

I've been reading that people have confirmed the jasper 360 in ARCADE models and listed what to look for. My question is, do these apply just the same for PRO units as well? Seeing as the Pro and the Arcade are the SAME exact system only bundled differently. IE, the Sytem itself is exactly the same but it PRO comes with the hard drive, headset, HD Cables, etc.

I am asking because in my trip to best buy today I found a 0845X Lot PRO with 12,1A;5V-1A Rail info and a 2008-11-09 MFR Date. I'm going to assume this is a Jasper, because the Arcades with those indications would be a Jasper and like stated the system itself is no different in Arcade and PRO models. Is my reasoning correct here? Jasper?

They could have done a lot better is what i'm trying to say. People are forgetting just what a psp can display graphics wise. I mean look at crisis core for crying out loud. It looks like a damn PS3 game almost during some of the cutscenes. I haven't seen GoW yet, but somehow I can't see why the graphics in this game for stuff like vaders mask looks like they didn't skin it at all. To me it just looks like they manipulated a cube in 3D studio max but didnt remember to add a texture layer to it.

I've been playing it. Are you looking at the character models (like vaders mask etc) for your graphic comparison? because im not talking about visuals here (Visuals are the force abilities, explosions, etc) graphics im talking about are for example the Ships, buildings, character model detail etc. All of that I found to be very blocky, hazy, and very dull. Vader's mask didn't even have any reflections for example, when the light hit it. I think you're confusing model detail with visual details. Visuals had the detail, models didn't. Maybe you'd have to have worked in 3D work to know what i'm talking about. Try looking at vaders mask in some of the cutscenes. It's not very detailed at all. Of course that's just one example of what i'm trying to explain here, that doesn't mean that is all that lacks detail.

I'm having issues beating that General Jedi dude. Keep beating him around but he just will not go down and ends up spanking my brains out, any tips?

Oh yeah, the character models and various other graphic elements are garbage, I'm not impressed. They actually are an insult to what the PSP can do. They actually look like a PC game set with the lowest possible graphic settings on a graphics card from 1990. I have seen better graphics on the PS2. The gameplay is fun, though, so if you don't mind **** graphics then you'll be good. The graphics redeem themselves a bit in the visuals, though. The visuals are attractive, but the graphics themselves. Yuck...