14th June 2010, 11:14 AM
In all honesty, the modern models of the 360 have already dealt with the original's terribly flawed and fatal design. It's just that there's still a lot of that original model out in the wild just waiting to fail, plus Microsoft's weird need to simply "refurbish" those failed models without actually addressing the core flaw. Anything made since 2008 seems okay though.
I really doubt they'd screw up with the smaller model. The real question is: do they still use proprietary memory cards and hard disks, or did they finally just use SATA hard drive and SD card slots? Seriously, their own hard disks, 120 GB things, are twice as expensive as a frickin' Tera byte drive.
http://www.joystiq.com/2010/06/14/new-xb...t-in-wifi/
Is it really smaller? Hard to tell. The design looks odd. Is it actually pinched in like that, or is that just perspective? It doesn't look good putting all the weight on the two sides instead of across the bottom. I think it may be perspective though, because I thought the same when looking at "head on" images of the first 360 model. At any rate, the "angles" just don't seem to appreciate modern aesthetic much. It should be box, a box, just plain glossy box with rounded corners but nothing else but box to it. Adding angles and odd bends randomly is so... late 1990's. What is this, an Alienware computer? Built in wifi and 250 GB as standard is a nice improvement at any rate.
I really doubt they'd screw up with the smaller model. The real question is: do they still use proprietary memory cards and hard disks, or did they finally just use SATA hard drive and SD card slots? Seriously, their own hard disks, 120 GB things, are twice as expensive as a frickin' Tera byte drive.
http://www.joystiq.com/2010/06/14/new-xb...t-in-wifi/
Is it really smaller? Hard to tell. The design looks odd. Is it actually pinched in like that, or is that just perspective? It doesn't look good putting all the weight on the two sides instead of across the bottom. I think it may be perspective though, because I thought the same when looking at "head on" images of the first 360 model. At any rate, the "angles" just don't seem to appreciate modern aesthetic much. It should be box, a box, just plain glossy box with rounded corners but nothing else but box to it. Adding angles and odd bends randomly is so... late 1990's. What is this, an Alienware computer? Built in wifi and 250 GB as standard is a nice improvement at any rate.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)