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It drives me insane when people say this... WE KNOW WHAT "s are FOR!
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I have a mod-chip so I can play "backup" games.
Moving on now...
My opinions: ---------------------------------------------------------- 1. A pogo pin X2 has more value than a matrix, because the X2 has a more advanced chip/design. The X2 is looking a little more toward the future... It is a lot more flexible. Value is not solely based on the least expensive product...
2. If you are too scared to solder these simple connections, you should probably not be opening up an electronic device in the first place. You will probably shock yourself.
3. I think most people are upset at pogo-pins, not solely because the idea/concept is lazy, or the connection is faulty, but because of the people that pogo-pins brought to the scene. You know them... Here is a sample qoute from a Gen-Matrix user:
"I want to download games for free, and I want it to be easy, and cheap, because I don't have money, and I don't have a lot of time... I don't want to take any risk, and the soldering iron scares me. I have never fiddled with electronics before, so I don't know what I'm doing. I can solder, but not that good. I am better at using a screwdriver, so this one really appealed to me. Everything in life should be easy, why make things more difficult than they need to be. My mom won't let me use a soldering iron, anyway, so..."
Furthermore, for those of you in supervisoral or managerial roles at your place of employment, you will recognize your pogo-pin employees, as they are the ones that always take the easy way out. When they give you their work, technically they are finished, and met the basic objective of the assignment, but you are left with an empty feeling, that something just isn't right, because it is blatant to you that the methods used were all the easiest, and not necessarily of the highest quality. (Wow, what a sentence, eh? I am sure the "'s guy is pissed at that too...) The X2 Pro employee is the guy that was in the office late last night taking the extra time, and patience, to get his job done the best way possible. When he handed you his work, you were just as happy as if you did it yourself.
Of course, these statements are not 100% accross the board, as life is not that way. But I think this is a good summation of why so many people see the pogo-pin crowd as a bunch of clowns
To summarize: Their is more to this animosity than the fact that pogo-pins make a faulty connection to the xbox motherboard. But that sure is a great place to start, now, isn't it! (Oh yeah, just because your xodus/matrix works, doesn't mean it has a perfect connection, either.) |