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Title: +1 reason, don't buy 360 yet
Post by: deadly7 on January 02, 2006, 10:59:46 AM
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/01/02/1038202&from=rss
Title: Re: +1 reason, don't buy 360 yet
Post by: Newby on January 02, 2006, 11:39:44 AM
Retarded. I want to know how it manages to scratch the discs, seeing as how it shouldn't ever touch them physically.
Title: Re: +1 reason, don't buy 360 yet
Post by: RoMi on January 02, 2006, 12:05:38 PM
It's when you move the system from vertical to horzontal.  While its on and while a disks spinning in there.
Title: Re: +1 reason, don't buy 360 yet
Post by: Newby on January 02, 2006, 12:08:54 PM
Quote from: RoMi on January 02, 2006, 12:05:38 PM
It's when you move the system from vertical to horzontal.  While its on and while a disks spinning in there.

Those morons deserve to have their discs ruined. Everybody knows tipping a computer with a CD in it = stupid. (My friend OZ found that out the hard way, he tipped a computer from horizontal to vertical with a CD in there and the CD literally shattered into tiny little fragments. The CD drive was unusable until I finally took the time to clean it! Good thing I ripped his Baldur's Gate CDs, otherwise he'd be short CD1. :P)
Title: Re: +1 reason, don't buy 360 yet
Post by: Sidoh on January 02, 2006, 01:32:45 PM
That's true of any disk drive that isn't designed to be turned about while it's in use.  This is a stupid claim.
Title: Re: +1 reason, don't buy 360 yet
Post by: leet_muffin on January 02, 2006, 01:41:52 PM
Quote from: Newby on January 02, 2006, 12:08:54 PM
Quote from: RoMi on January 02, 2006, 12:05:38 PM
It's when you move the system from vertical to horzontal. While its on and while a disks spinning in there.

Those morons deserve to have their discs ruined. Everybody knows tipping a computer with a CD in it = stupid. (My friend OZ found that out the hard way, he tipped a computer from horizontal to vertical with a CD in there and the CD literally shattered into tiny little fragments. The CD drive was unusable until I finally took the time to clean it! Good thing I ripped his Baldur's Gate CDs, otherwise he'd be short CD1. :P)

hahaha @ OZ. noob.
Title: Re: +1 reason, don't buy 360 yet
Post by: RoMi on January 02, 2006, 01:49:07 PM
Plus there is a warning RIGHT in the front of the Xbox 360 manual, that says not to do this.
Title: Re: +1 reason, don't buy 360 yet
Post by: leet_muffin on January 02, 2006, 02:11:47 PM
Plus, people should have common sense to look at the cd drive and realize theres nothing really holding it down.
Title: Re: +1 reason, don't buy 360 yet
Post by: Newby on January 02, 2006, 02:14:28 PM
Quote from: leet_muffin on January 02, 2006, 02:11:47 PM
Plus, people should have common sense to look at the cd drive and realize theres nothing really holding it down.

That depends. I used to have a CD-drive that had little hands you could extend over the CD to hold it when the computer goes vertical. :P
Title: Re: +1 reason, don't buy 360 yet
Post by: deadly7 on January 02, 2006, 02:31:40 PM
Quote from: RoMi on January 02, 2006, 12:05:38 PM
It's when you move the system from vertical to horzontal.  While its on and while a disks spinning in there.
Well, I didn't know that so I posted this. :p

Yeah, those dumbasses deserve to have their cd's scratched then.