not so impressive xbox

December 24th, 2005

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I played with xbox 360 for a few hours with two 360 games that I collected (Perfect Dark Zero and NBA 2k6). Maybe already spoiled by my Nvidia 7800GT video card with AMD 3200+, I cannot really say xbox360 is “amazing”, of course, my PC itself costs much more than the xbox. major things that I want to complain:

• hard drive too small, only 20GB (consider now the low end ipod has 30GB HDD) and no easy way to upgrade in the future consider it is a SATA drive.
• very noisy, the fan to cool IBM PowerPC and ATI chipset is just too loud, much worse than xbox1
• the media player sucks a great time.. the DVD play quality is awful, and it doesn’t support any video codec other than mpeg2, so no divx/xvid play, and it doesn’t even allow stream video from regualr windows XP (unless you own a windows XP media center)

well, I still put very high hope for the upcoming release of dead or alive 4(only available on xbox360), which is the true reason that I bought xbox360, five days to go!

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