[quote name='decrot']are you really using a quote from MS and Gates to back up your argument?[/quote]
Someone asked for official claims, so I posted them. I don't see how forum/blog posts and google searches are any more credible. But if they are, it works for Jasper too:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=jasper+e74&aq=f&oq=&aqi=
http://www.8bitjoystick.com/2009/03...ailures-are-on-the-rise-and-full-of-fail.html
http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/745122
There are simply less reports since Jasper has been out for much shorter time period.
and the fact is, a large majority of hdmi units are falcons. since xbox has hdmi problems, and falcons having hdmi on them, it makes the falcons unreliable. you got that? its not a xenon or falcon issue, its the xbox having poor hdmi parts, which the falcon contains.
Poor HDMI parts? The primary issue 360 suffered from in its early years was the GPU detching from the motherboard due to warping causing a breaking of the solder joints. Occasionally other parts can have the same issue (CPU, HANA/ANA video encoder), but by and large the GPU was the main culprit. While Falcon does have the same GPU, the ambient temperature for the case is much lower than launch consoles due to the much cooler CPU, and the HSF is much beefed up as well. Early Elite HDMI units did not have the lower-heat CPU which resulted in ambient temperatures too high for the cooling to handle.
Again its not rocket science. All you need to do is ensure that the chips remain cool enough that they do not damage/warp/break the components they are mounted on/with. This can be done by producing cooler chips, using more efficient heatsinks, or both. The 90nm XBOX 360 GPU is not uncommon in the high temperatures it produces; around the same time Nvidia's G80 GPU produced even more heat, but there was no problem thanks to a beefy HSF being used to cool it. To fix XBOX 360 via Falcon/Opus, they did the same thing - added a beefy HSF while at the same time lowering ambient temps by producing cooler CPUs.
fact is, the xbox is poorly designed, whether its a xenon, falcon, zephyr whatever. you'll probably see jaspers with huge failure rates in about a year when people start to rack up hours on them.
The design of Falcon, Opus, Jasper is perfectly fine as there is enough cooling to remove the heat generated. The design for Xenon & Zephyr is problematic as the cooling is insufficient to prevent motherboard/solder damage. However, regardless of design the XBOX 360 is being and always will be manufactured with lowest cost being one of the highest priorities. When that is the case, there is going to be defects in your manufacturing. However, some defects are acceptable if it means that is necessary to sell the console. Sure, Microsoft might be able to manufacture the X360 with little to no defect rates, but it would cost twice as much for that level of QA and fine tolerance parts. So you'd have a very reliable console that would fail in the market due to high price.
The true fact is that Americans and many other countries want the best value for their dollar, they don't want to spend $600+ on a videogame console. There is no way to deliver a complex device like the XBOX 360 with a high value without there being a significant amount of defects. It is simply the nature of manufacturing highly complex electronics at affordable prices. And even when those extensive steps are taken sometimes there are still failures due to unexpected results in the final silicon.
PS3 is suffering the same thing right now with BDROM drives failing (NO DISC) and YLOD (Yellow Light of Death). Even with the high pricetag on that console ($500-$600 at launch), you still can't guarantee or expect true reliability.
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ylod&search_type=&aq=f