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    havnt had a problem with my PS3 slim... touch wood!.

    On the note of custom building PC's, i wotn do it any other way. on my 3rd custom built jobbie. Feels good once youve loaded Windows 7 on, and all ya drivers, installed games. and fire it up for first time.. !!! (ps, Crysis looks nuts on very high in DX10 ... last system couldnt play it ... upgraded Graphics 3 weeks ago and its awesome)

    Sorry for Hijack lol
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    Quote Originally Posted by GRN_VAGN View Post
    havnt had a problem with my PS3 slim... touch wood!.

    On the note of custom building PC's, i wotn do it any other way. on my 3rd custom built jobbie. Feels good once youve loaded Windows 7 on, and all ya drivers, installed games. and fire it up for first time.. !!! (ps, Crysis looks nuts on very high in DX10 ... last system couldnt play it ... upgraded Graphics 3 weeks ago and its awesome)

    Sorry for Hijack lol
    I'm hearing that. On my first ever from scratch PC and it's awesome. My mates all told me to do it age ago and last year I bit the bullet. I shopped around, spoke to some friends in the know then bought all the parts and went about figuring out how the hell everything goes together. Had it done and working in an afternoon.

    Value for money, everything works, only run the software I WANT to run. Bloody excellent. Haven't gone to Windows 7 yet. I'm still running vista ultimate which has only ever crashed on me once and recovered itself completely.

    Why you would buy something from Dell or any of those other companies is beyond me. No way i'd ever do that.



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    I've had my PS3 for 3 years now (I got it the day they came out) and it has been left on almost 24/7 since I got it and it's never even frozen on me. I have also had fantastic technical support from Sony when ever I couldn't work something out. I also had a ps2 for 10 years and never had an issue... I've always kept them out of the cupboard and dusted them regularly tho.

    I have had all sorts of issues with 360's in the past tho and gave up on them when I bought the ps3. If you do keep your ps3 in a tv cabinet/cupboard make sure it has plenty of space around it and the doors are always left open as they get stupidly hot and this is what normally wrecks them.

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    funny that you mention that stuff, mike- you know, in japan, it's sorta a common knowledge thing/ stigma that sony stuff only has a lifespan of 1.5 times the warranty period.

    i bought some big ass bad ass sony headphones for 12800 yen when i lived there. i later got some smaller panasonic ones for 2800 yen- hack headphones for the snow that i wouldnt fret over if they got wet etc.

    the panasonics had superior sound quality to the sonys that cost 4x the price.

    my sister just got some audio technicas in tokyo that blow the crap outta sonys 3x the price.

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    It's hardly surprising that so many x360's & PS3's die from overheating. They are high performance bits of computing equipment and many dullard users simply stuff them into enclosed spaces without the proper ventilation. I dont know about Sony but M$ has put in effort to improve their designs with better cooling and from what I've heard it has been an improvement.

    Personally, I have had an x360 elite for over a year without any issues. It sits in an open area where it can breathe nice n easy. It never gets hot and the fans are never pumping hard. I expect it should live a long fruitful life

    As for Sony gear? Um yeah. I've got a sony mobile, it's about a year old. It hasnt broken (yet, touch wood) but it does behave rather oddly. Dont really expect too much out of it to be honest. I've got a 10 year old Sony CRT TV (36"!!!) though that runs just sweet.
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    it's a good thing i keep my hand in open spaces with adequate ventilation

    boom boom tish!

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    Keep records of all your dealing with Sony, names, dates, times etc.

    If they refuse to fix the product, head down to Fair Trading and lodge a complaint. It's not going to be fast but there is a damn good chance they will end up fixing/replacing it considering how old it is.


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    Quote Originally Posted by mikepologti View Post
    talking to sony australia is like beating your own head into the pavement. i went down that path with both of my dslrs i got from them (that died might i add). the only interest sony has is with its self, it cares lil to nothing for there customers. so ive devised a small list as to which companies i buy from in future.

    laptops - i will avoid laptops all together in future after bad dealings with toshiba , hp , sony (no surprise there), and hyper sonic (us based company that builds custom laptops ) of all laptops ive never had one last longer then 3 yrs (admitedly that was a toshiba )

    desktops -ill build my own , its cheeper and at least you know your components are interchangable when you want to upgrade (im going to avoid dell at all costs, there power supplys and cases are built to go hand in hand and wont fit 3rd party products )

    phones - ill go know where near cheep chinese phone products all together even if they are sold in a telstra shop , i wont buy motarolla after having 2 phones from them that have also died (bare in mind i absalutly baby my electrical goods , no rough treatment) , nokia is so far the only compay that has helped me with hand held replacments and actually helped me with product support and ive never owned a nokia that died,....ever ....i still have my original.

    dslrs- thats easy canon or nikon , both have beautiful product support and products in general , ive never had a beef with either company. sony brough all there technology from minolta and are still playing the catch up game with every other imitation dslr.

    when ever i buy a electrical product i read review after review, i dont buy willy nilly. yet time and time again i keep getting cheep inferior products that offer very little product support, or simply send you in that happy loop that telstra puts you in when they hand you from department to department till you just give up. what baffles me most is sony used to be a good compay that had awsome technical support? what the hell happened? honestly if more and more companies are heading this way , what the hell is going to happen to the consumers? ......... i hope we are all lubed up people cos i have a feeling in the future were all going to be bending over.

    k ive had my rant and my winge for the day,...........oh and one more thing my microwave blew up yesterday happy happy joy joy!

    back on topic , i have contacted the company in your suggestion hawk, there located in vic , and seem to be not to bad to deal with . (time will tell)


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    I think any non-perishable product should have a minimum 3 year warranty. To expect it to last for only 1 year is absurd and a waste. It forces companies to build higher quality products, reduces land-fill and promotes a better relationship with the customer.
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    yeah true, it IS abit crappy, isnt it?

    what about all these new fan-dangled lcd/ plasma tv's? dont their screens deteriorate pretty quickly? (im not a tech buff, just buff)

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