How can someone punt an Xbox 360 hard enough to snap gear shafts off of the drive tray assembly linkage? The best part is that the drives are keyed, so one has to move the drives old logic board to the new drive and transplant it there for the system to function properly. Its extra work that is supposed to prevent someone from using any old DVD-ROM drive or to prevent piracy, I suppose. But thats been broken by JTAGgers for a long time now anyway, so the whole concept of doing this is a lost, dumb cause that just makes this more difficult for people like me. I wish that Microsoft, Sony, and any other shop that puts this sort of poop in their hardware design would reconsider. I can still fix Sega CD systems from 1991 because Sega used off-the-shelf parts without restrictions. In 40 years though, no one will be able to do anything about this because Microsoft decided to use specific model hard drives with specific firmware, and specific drives with specific pickups. My arthritic hands will clench slowly around my rickety, shitty, rust-covered Weller soldering iron. I will curse at some boardroom blowhard that crooned about delivering a secure channel to our content partners while disinterested, bland, boring, clueless execs in Banana Republic slacks wandered through another corporate middle-management meeting. I will grimace sourly, picturing their generic Powerpoint slides with monotype font and iStockphoto happy people. I will probably burn myself when, in my imagination, fighting piracy across all entry points and protecting deliverables star-wipe inward on the Office default template. Who am I kidding? Its Microsoft, and it was probably an awesome meeting with free catering and a white elephant gift exchange. Assistant director of team synergy, Marcus, probably got a sweet traffic cone. Julio, manager of creative design, probably got a pack of Big League Chew from 1996 and some bent Garbage Pail Kids cards. Marge from accounting got an REO Speedwagon cassette of High Infidelity with a squeaky reel. ...I hate you the most, Julio. Those should be MY Garbage Pail Kids cards. TL; DR: Punt an Xbox for $65.
Posted on: Wed, 31 Dec 2014 10:56:02 +0000
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