Pro's: Supports HDMI (1.2 vs. PS3 1.3 - minor shadowing difference at best is all that means), HUGE 120gb hard drive, and hurray it comes in black and you don't have to spend an additional $15 on a HDMI cord. And it comes with a month of free xbox live. Joy.
Cons: They haven't done anything about the cooling system and the CPU is still that 90nm chip not the super cool 65 nm. For us laypeople, it's still just as noisy as the xbox360 released a year ago.
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My question to you people is... would it be worth waiting until the rumored Fall release to pick up a 360? There's been rumblings of a price drop as well as the influx of 65nm chips. Or, on the flipside, will these additions probably not make much of a difference in the long run, assuming the "Elite" doesn't break. I'm itching to try some of these games but skeptical at the same time from all the horror stories I've heard of (even from personal experience watching Oblivion ruin my roomies brand new 360 a week after it was purchased).
Oh ya, and if you trade in an original xbox for this Elite version, you get $50 off. Which means the total difference in price between the Elite versus the 20gig released a year ago is only $30 plus tax.
Cons: They haven't done anything about the cooling system and the CPU is still that 90nm chip not the super cool 65 nm. For us laypeople, it's still just as noisy as the xbox360 released a year ago.
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My question to you people is... would it be worth waiting until the rumored Fall release to pick up a 360? There's been rumblings of a price drop as well as the influx of 65nm chips. Or, on the flipside, will these additions probably not make much of a difference in the long run, assuming the "Elite" doesn't break. I'm itching to try some of these games but skeptical at the same time from all the horror stories I've heard of (even from personal experience watching Oblivion ruin my roomies brand new 360 a week after it was purchased).
Oh ya, and if you trade in an original xbox for this Elite version, you get $50 off. Which means the total difference in price between the Elite versus the 20gig released a year ago is only $30 plus tax.
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. To be honest though i dont think the HD is needed. I havent even used half of my 20 gb HD. Then again i don't keep demos, i don't download movies or shows off marketplace and i don't have any XBLA games so I really dont need it, you on the other hand may want that extra space in which case i say get the elite.
seems a bunch of systems got fucked up horribly while playing Dead Rising cause it uses the system's processor to the max and the cooling wasn't able to keep it cool sooo long periods of play fucked a system up. At least, that's what I've read at a bunch of places.
