14 DAY TRIAL // OptimusRhyme wrote on the official PlayStation forums that when he first got a PS3, he noticed there was a "high pitched whine" (whine?) coming from the hardware, as DailyTech posts: "I first purchased a system 2 days ago and noticed that there was a high pitched whine coming from the system. It wasn't from any cable as sound was definitely coming from the hardware itself. Thinking it was just a defective unit, I returned it and got another one. Once that one was all setup, the exact same thing happened, so yesterday I returned that system to get a third unit thinking maybe the other two were part of a bad batch. Unfortunately for me, the third one is making the exact same noise."
Just before we get on it, here's a funny comment coming from a BlackPete writing to EvilAvatar: "Nope I don't have a faulty PS3. Phew! What a non-story...Although the fact that I don't have a PS3 might have something to do with it..." Just thought it was funny, that's all. Anyway, this is a first with the PlayStation3 console from Sony. What are we to understand, that a batch of faulty PS3s hit the same retailer? How on Earth did all the bad consoles end up in one batch? And more than that, all three made the same noise? What if he was to get a fourth? It's a little far fetched if you ask me, but possible nonetheless. (heck, a batch of Xbox 360s had a 100% failure rate over at Tek Republik).
Only if a certain robot arm back at the assembling factory missed screwing tightly one of the PS3's parts, would something like this happen (with a batch of consoles I mean). And then, you'd ask the question: "Did the robot arm fix itself after that" (self aware are we?). I mean, all the 60 GB PS3 owners out there would have to be experiencing the same thing.
This myth is busted. And to top it all, some early reports of over heating PS3s were shot down too eventually, as some leave their consoles for 7 days at a time, dedicating idle time to the Folding@home application. DailyTech says that "calls to Sony PlayStation tech support found no one aware of the problem, though through the collaboration of PlayStation forum users, the issue appears to be isolated only to a small batch from a recent production run". So that's that, only a batch of them "whined." Probably they missed their mommy.