Sweet Justice

Well, patience and trust in a mega-corporation have paid off. My Xbox is here, plugged in and *frantically touches wood* is now working again. Fairplay to Microsoft, 10 days earlier than they said the console arrived all nicely packaged up and even a month of free Xbox live (which nicely covers the time I've spent offline).

It's easy to be sanguine after the event, and I am still annoyed that Xbox 360s in general have a honking great sudden death problem but even so it speaks well of the makers that their support service is so good. Either that or Microsoft know how much of a nightmare they'd have if they hadn't ponied up and put this free repair system in place.