As of today there has been so sightings of a Jasper motherboard based Xbox 360 that has been backed up by hard photographic evidence, such as pictures of the new GPU, cooling systems or a new power supply.
I asked Microsoft Xbox team through official channels if they would tell us where the first batch of Jaspers motherboard based Xbox 360 expected to be made or were made at and what the power requirements are and will it have a new power supply unit, and when can we expect to find them. They gave me their standard response.
Microsoft's official statement continues to be: "We are constantly updating internal components on our consoles and therefore will not comment on details of specific components or manufacturing processes.
So they are not making it any easier to find a Jasper.
The new 65nm GPU chips started being delivered to Microsoft months ago.
There have been regulatory documents submitted by Microsoft that suggest that the Jasper will only require 150W. Readers of my post Waiting for The Jasper Xbox 360 with Madman Muntz have been doing a great job sharing information, theories and finding documentation.
I’ll have to interview the first person to send me photographic evidence of the new Jasper Xbox 360 motherboard and make them a certificate award of significance for their accomplishments for the good of greater nerdom.
Good luck to all the Jasper hunting out there!
I'm a Media employee at a Best Buy in New Jersey, and just last night we received a huge shipment of 360's. I checked the manufacture dates on the 60gb's, but they were still from July. Interestingly enough, I checked the elites and they all had 08-05-08 dates. I was so let down that I didn't bother to check the arcades, lol. Anyway, if the manufacture dates on the Jasper models do happen to be from 08-06 and forward, this is further proof that they are very near.