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Xbox 360 Slim
Jul. 26th, 2010 03:44 pmFor various reasons, I picked up a new Xbox 360 S for home. It is a bit smaller than the original, and the power brick is about half the size. It has a 250 GB harddisk and the wireless adapter is built-in. The overall experience is a quieter machine.
The transfer cable is a bit pricey for what it is, but it works pretty well--and you can probably borrow one from a friend who has had to do this before. I was able to transfer all the content from my old machine over reasonably quickly, and then use the online rights transfer tool to enable all the Xbox LIVE accounts on the new Xbox 360 S to use the downloaded content--I can still use the content on my original box as long as my Xbox LIVE gamertag is logged in.
And that brings me to the one drawback for the "Slim": it doesn't have a slot for the Memory Unit. Most people never use the MU anyhow, so this isn't a major drawback, but it turns out to really suck if you want to keep two Xboxs in the house. Moving my Xbox LIVE account back and forth is a huge pain in the ass either requiring the some-what unwieldly Windows Live ID recover gametag approach, or pulling out the original HD, moving the gamertag with the transfer cable, and then moving it back so I can actually use content on the original box. It shouldn't matter too much since Margo has her own Xbox LIVE gamertag to use on the new system, while keeping mine on the original system, but the MU would've made the whole situation a bit less messy...
The transfer cable is a bit pricey for what it is, but it works pretty well--and you can probably borrow one from a friend who has had to do this before. I was able to transfer all the content from my old machine over reasonably quickly, and then use the online rights transfer tool to enable all the Xbox LIVE accounts on the new Xbox 360 S to use the downloaded content--I can still use the content on my original box as long as my Xbox LIVE gamertag is logged in.
And that brings me to the one drawback for the "Slim": it doesn't have a slot for the Memory Unit. Most people never use the MU anyhow, so this isn't a major drawback, but it turns out to really suck if you want to keep two Xboxs in the house. Moving my Xbox LIVE account back and forth is a huge pain in the ass either requiring the some-what unwieldly Windows Live ID recover gametag approach, or pulling out the original HD, moving the gamertag with the transfer cable, and then moving it back so I can actually use content on the original box. It shouldn't matter too much since Margo has her own Xbox LIVE gamertag to use on the new system, while keeping mine on the original system, but the MU would've made the whole situation a bit less messy...
