About the 360 hardware failures..

[Bube]

Hi everybody! I've been gone for some 5 or 6 months, I was trying to stay away from the internet but couldn't manage it, lol I'm pretty sure nobody even realized I was gone, but here I am, now you know I'm back

Anyway, here's something that's been really bothering me.. I'm planning to go to England in about a month, and I was thinking about buying a 360 Elite (with PES2008, Bioshock and Halo 3 - rate the games as well ). But I'm hearing everywhere that these things have that hardware problem. I'm going to be bringing it back to Turkey of course, no warranty, no service even - Microsoft Turkey still haven't started selling 360's here, they say March 2008 or something.

What I'm asking is, how common is this hardware failure? Has anybody here had it, what did they do? What can I do to prevent it? And the most important of all, does this still happen with the Elite model - one of the reasons I want this is because it's a newer model and that the problem might have been fixed..

Oh, and what exactly are these, and what are they doing on our forums?!