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The world needs to be seller beware NOT buyer beware. MS is for all practical intents and purposes a monopoly and should be broken up.
I've had two Xboxes, The first on lasted me two years before I got the red-ring of death. Instead of getting it repaired, I figured I'd just go buy an arcade version (I had some Gamestop store credit). This new one has an HDMI output unlike my old one, but it also has a different disk drive. The old one was silver and worked perfectly. The new one is white, quieter, but it scratches my disks sometimes. I saved the old disk drive, and I contemplated putting it into this new console, but now I'm glad I didn't!
It's actually quite difficult to open...the plastic shell comes off easy enough, but inside there is a vault full of torx screws and other proprietary fasteners. Once you get that open it looks alot like the inside of a laptop. The fans and disk drive are connected to the mobo via standard SATA cables. The main cpu heatsink is attached with this bracket that sort of self-destructs when you loosen it (I think this was purposeful). Everything is jammed super tight, so I can see why they had problems with overheating (the one I took apart was pre-redesign).
If people are going to mod their hardware, then sell the mods yourself! Then it's legal, under warrenty, and you reap the profits on both sides....
Man that's so true. I didn't use my <leo_highlight style="border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(255, 255, 150); background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer; display: inline; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" id="leoHighlights_Underline_0" onclick="leoHighlightsHandleClick('leoHighlights_Underline_0')" onmouseover="leoHighlightsHandleMouseOver('leoHighlights_Underline_0')" onmouseout="leoHighlightsHandleMouseOut('leoHighlights_Underline_0')" leohighlights_keywords="psp" leohighlights_url="http%3A//thebrowserhighlighter.com/leonardo/highlights/keywords?keywords%3Dpsp">PSP</leo_highlight> for over an year because i hated to carry all those mini-CD things around. One day a co-worker said that he'll modify my <leo_highlight style="border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(255, 255, 150); background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer; display: inline; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" id="leoHighlights_Underline_1" onclick="leoHighlightsHandleClick('leoHighlights_Underline_1')" onmouseover="leoHighlightsHandleMouseOver('leoHighlights_Underline_1')" onmouseout="leoHighlightsHandleMouseOut('leoHighlights_Underline_1')" leohighlights_keywords="psp" leohighlights_url="http%3A//thebrowserhighlighter.com/leonardo/highlights/keywords?keywords%3Dpsp">PSP</leo_highlight> so i can play the games off of the memory stick. Of course i knew doing so would violate the user agreement, but i didn't care. I bought the <leo_highlight style="border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(255, 255, 150); background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer; display: inline; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" id="leoHighlights_Underline_2" onclick="leoHighlightsHandleClick('leoHighlights_Underline_2')" onmouseover="leoHighlightsHandleMouseOver('leoHighlights_Underline_2')" onmouseout="leoHighlightsHandleMouseOut('leoHighlights_Underline_2')" leohighlights_keywords="psp" leohighlights_url="http%3A//thebrowserhighlighter.com/leonardo/highlights/keywords?keywords%3Dpsp">PSP</leo_highlight> to be portable...not to carry the 20-30 CDs i have with it.
Now i have a PSP with about 12 games on it (ISO images made from the games i bought) and it's perfect for long flights. No more CDs...yeah!
If only SONY offered an "on-the-go" version of the PSP (mod it themselves) and sold .ISO versions of their games....then i'm sure they can make profit.
MS is doing the right thing by banning the accounts, but they can also think about selling legalized version of the mods. To defeat the enemy, one must think like the enemy.
Anyways, it's not like these companies miss a few million $ here and there...so that's why they don't care.
-feng
