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You can't find them anywhere here in Houston. I told myself that I wasn't going to get one, but after seeing Halo and the other cool games I want one now. However, that's half of a new pistol, and guns hold their value a lot better than console games do.
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You're internet savvy, give online shopping a try. [:)] If you're real nice, I might help you out by picking one up for you here. Unlike the PS2 (which was impossible to get) the Xbox is sitting around if you look.
Years? It's only been released for 1.5 years if you're counting from it's introduction in Japan.
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At 1.5 you round up, simple rule we learned back in elementary school I believe. [:)] The PS2 is about 2 years old, hence the word "years" which denotes more than one.
Which parts are upradable? The CPU and GPU are both attached to the motherboard. There is no upgrading as far as those two key components are concerned.
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Just this week some guys goofing around inside their Xbox's discovered you could upgrade the HDD ribbon cable to a ATA/100 cable and significantly improve performance. Here's a link to the website: [url]http://www.icrontic.com/index.php?page=public/articles&articleId=106[/url]
I haven't tried this and probably won't. My personal opinion is that simply replacing a cable wouldn't do much if the bus and HDD didn't support that ATA/100 standard. If it does support the higher throughput, then why didn't MS include a high datapath cable from the factory? I don't know... but read the article, it's good.
Aside from that, you'll see people swapping out HDD's, perhaps memory and maybe even BIOS. Who knows, but it's nothing more than a PC running a version of the XP kernel so all sorts of things are possible.
After a year of my PS2, I'd really like to get an XBOX. The games look awesome.
God Bless Texas
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Do it, you'll LOVE it... I LOVE mine. Right after Enterprise I'm going to fire up mine. I might even run up and pick-up the new Star Wars StarFighter game which just hit the streets yesterday.