Originally Posted by
Talldog The same thing happened with mine and my wife's. I did some searching online and came across a thread at the Microsoft answer forums where people were being told that SBs were being pulled from the assembly lines and fired up. I ended up going to MS support myself, and I was told the same thing. The support person checked our serial numbers assured me that our SBs were brand new.
indeed they are brand new when they were going through Quality Check the individuals who were assigned to this duty tried to get the lots out asap.