Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> ____/ Mark Kent on Friday 25 January 2008 16:42 : \____
>
>> Arland Fritz <fritz@xxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>
>>> "Linonut" <linonut@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>>> news:tOrlj.57961$vt2.21430@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>>* Tiki Weatherbee peremptorily fired off this memo:
>>>>
>>>>> Yet another COLA idiot who spews made up bullshit as if it were fact. You
>>>>> and Roy Schestowitz are surely buddies.
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/multimedia/display/20061120132150.html
>>>>>
>>>>> [quote]
>>>>> Playstation 3 20-Gig:
>>>>> Manufacture cost = $805.85
>>>>> Sale price = $499
>>>>> Difference = $306.85 LOSS
>>>>>
>>>>> Playstation 3 60-Gig
>>>>> Manufacture cost = $840.35
>>>>> Sale price = $599
>>>>> Difference = $241.35 LOSS
>>>>>
>>>>> XBox 360 20-Gig
>>>>> Manufacture cost = $323
>>>>> Sale price = $399
>>>>> Difference = $75.70 *PROFIT*
>>>>>
>>>>> [-quote]
>>>>
>>>> Odd. Sony pays $125 for an optical drive, MS pays $20.
>>>
>>> One is a BluRay drive. The other is a commodity DVD drive.
>>>
>>
>> Nope, the figures above are utterly misleading, as they clearly show
>> zero comprehension of production economics. Furthermore, MS is buying
>> extremely expensive HD-DVD drives, these are expensive because nobody is
>> buying them. Apart from MS, of course. Still further problems, it's
>> the late addition of the HD-DVD drive which resulted in the removal of a
>> critical heatsink.
>>
>> This heatsink is what causes Xbox360s to overheat and set on fire. That
>> being the lack of the heatsink.
>>
>> Anyone who *ever* posts a fixed charge against a mass-produced object
>> doesn't understand production economics.
>
> That's Scott Douglas you're replying to.
>
I was fairly sure... we seem to have a renewed drive from all of our
shills/trolls going on at the moment. Presumably they have been given
instructions.
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