> There were five revisions in the first 36 months of the Xbox 360's life: Zephyr was pretty much just a Xenon board with HDMI hardware added, and Opus was a F

> There were five revisions in the first 36 months of the Xbox 360's life: Zephyr was pretty much just a Xenon board with HDMI hardware added, and Opus was a Falcon with HDMI hardware removed, so I count Falcon/Opus as the first refresh and Jasper as the second. > If you purchased your 360 on launch day, you would qualify for the Jasper model (65nm CPU/65nm GPU, which is the primary "no RRoD" model) for over two months. Opus exists solely for warranty replacements for Xenons. It never shipped to retail. If you had a Xenon fail under warranty you got back another Xenon until mid-2008. I've personally never seen someone get a Jasper back in exchange for a failed Xenon or Opus. If you didn't have HDMI you were stuck with the older hardware. Not saying it never happened, but if it happened it missed my entire sample size. > Their support for an issue caused by a third party manufacturer's chip was unprecedented AFAIK the problem was the combination of RoHS solder plus heat cycling plus a poorly designed retention mechanism. I don't know what if any part of that physical design of the cooling system IBM might have been responsible for but the chip itself wasn't the issue. I definitely would not say this was an issue "caused by a third party manufacturer's chip"