Money Tip of the Day: Don’t Be an Early Tech Product Buyer If You’re Not a Techie
You know the old saying that you know who the pioneers are because they’re the ones with arrows in their backs?
A similar lesson applies with technology products: If you want to know that the tech product you’re buying will work without glitches, don’t buy it when it’s first released.
Latest example–The Xbox 360. I won’t attempt to get into what the problems are, just that they exist, and that they appear, despite Microsoft’s reassurances, to be more than minor, both in the number of machines affected and the degree of the problems involved.
More links if you want to know more:
- Seattle Times — Gamers report glitches
- Treowth — Xbox 360 = Crashbox?
- Selsine Tech — Xbox 360 Crash Updates
Also, HiWired Blog (”XBox 360 bloggers not thinking happy thoughts”) has an extensive collection of links, summary comments, and at least one unusual fix.
