Monday, 7 December 2009
The Red Ring of Death
If you own an Xbox you know about the infamous 'red ring of death' as it is called. It means that your Xbox is basically screwed up depending on which rings are red. Now I think that is pretty cool, it tells you what is wrong with your Xbox. If the top left ring is red, its one problem, the top left another. Now although this is something you never want to see, I think it is pretty cool that Microsoft managed to fit this into their Xbox. I mean, your computer does not tell you what is wrong, it just says an unexpected error occurred, not even a mac will tell you definitively what he exact error is. In most cases with electronics you call up and try to describe for an hour what exactly is wrong with your computer, and then the tech people come over and tell you it is something else and they have to come over again. With the red ring system all you have to tell the repair men is one easy line, the top left quadrant is flashing.
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This is actually a genius and simple system. Even the thickest of videogamers and customer service representatives are able to communicate by simply saying "the top left red ring is lit up." It seems like an elementary idea and yet why has no other companies done this?Certain lights on the bottom of a Macbook or some other product would make dealing with that sort of situation so easy.
ReplyDeleteThis is really interesting... it seems like a pretty simple and easy way to let the user know when something is wrong, and what exactly is wrong... Like you said, with the average computer, you wouldn't even know, so I think it is pretty incredible that the x-box has this amazing system...
ReplyDeleteThis is interesting and computers should be able to do that well... if an X-Box can do it.
ReplyDeleteYou just have to make sure you know WHAT problems the red rings represent.