the Xbox 360 slim

[Drazeric]

hey I get paid on the 1st and i need to get a new xbox seeing as mine crapped out. I was thinking of getting the new 360 and by everything i have read its probably the one im going to get...just wanna know if anyone has them and are experiencing any problems with them and if i would just be able to xfer my existing hard drive over or if thats extra $$

 

[Nillz]

It is excellent. I just bought one because my old xbox crapped out also, and I am really impressed. And yes, you will need to buy a transfer cable to transfer your data to the new hard drive. but its totally worth it!

 

[NUMAN01D]

I bought it and every feature combats my old problems;

Touch buttons mean no more dodgy pushed-in power button,
Quieter, especially with games installed to the big ol' hard drive,
Many USB ports,

etcetc sure you already know.

And thankfully I only wanted game data instead of music and whatnot, so an 8gb USB stick did the tranfer job just fine!

 

[DustyDrB]

I got one a few weeks ago and it's running fine. They don't have hardware failure data out on it yet, as far as I know.

 

[migo]

Horrible idea, buy an arcade for $150 or less and keep using your old hard drive. It has a 3 year warranty and by 360 standards a proven track record for reliability. The 360S has a lot of question marks about it, and that 1 year warranty and need to replace the hard drive just sucks.

 

[ZZoMBiE13]

I love mine. It's not loud like the original, it's smaller and looks better and the larger HDD is nice too. Be sure you get a transfer cable so you can move stuff from your old HDD to the new one.

 

[danintexas]

Just got one last month. I love it.

But its a MS console and will die at some point.

 

[ZeroAE]

Yes you can. You need to transfer license in xbox homepage.

 

[DarthLurtz]

It is excellent. I just bought one because my old xbox crapped out also, and I am really impressed. And yes, you will need to buy a transfer cable to transfer your data to the new hard drive. but its totally worth it!

That's BS. You gotta buy an overpriced cable to transfer YOUR information off of YOUR hdd. Can't you just redownload everything?

Not saved games. But you could just use a usb stick, as long as each individual thing you transfer fits on one.

 

[migo]

You need a working 360 to use a USB stick, and MS counts on it breaking, hence the transfer cable.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

hey I get paid on the 1st and i need to get a new xbox seeing as mine crapped out. I was thinking of getting the new 360 and by everything i have read its probably the one im going to get...just wanna know if anyone has them and are experiencing any problems with them and if i would just be able to xfer my existing hard drive over or if thats extra $$

Mine is fine.

I had an issue at the start as it wouldn't let me use my Turtle Beach headset without buying a seperate adaptor (because of a very cynically designed piece of plastic jutting out from the HDMI port).

Also, you have to buy a HDMI connnector seperately as it doesn't ship with one.

Other than that, it's a little beauty. Runs as quiet as a mouse, makes a little 'ding' when you tunr it on and shuts itself if it starts to overheat, which reduces any chance of the RROD failure.

Also... all you need to transfer your data is a USB key. But beware... if you have Red Dead save files they may get corrupted and lost forever, like mine did

 

[MiracleOfSound]

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They should either include the transfer cable or allow you to temporarily put your save games on the cloud. Say for 7 days and if you don't retrieve them they get deleted.

They don't need to really, all you need is a USB drive.

They should, however, include a HDMI adaptor and a HDMI audio adaptor. It sucked that I had to buy those seperately.

 

[Deofuta]

Love mine, thought switching HDD's would be a ***** but it worked out great with my usb drive I had around the house. I just dl'ed all of my arcade games again and I was good to go.

Beware of getting the kinect version though, some games require a removable hard drive to function properly (ALA H:R Coop)

 

[petercrab]

Horrible idea, buy an arcade for $150 or less and keep using your old hard drive. It has a 3 year warranty and by 360 standards a proven track record for reliability. The 360S has a lot of question marks about it, and that 1 year warranty and need to replace the hard drive just sucks.

the old xbox has a proven bad design and is likely to overheat. There is a good reason the xbox slim was released.

 

[migo]

Horrible idea, buy an arcade for $150 or less and keep using your old hard drive. It has a 3 year warranty and by 360 standards a proven track record for reliability. The 360S has a lot of question marks about it, and that 1 year warranty and need to replace the hard drive just sucks.

the old xbox has a proven bad design and is likely to overheat. There is a good reason the xbox slim was released.

The 360 S has a 1 year warranty, which means MS isn't willing to guarantee it for longer than that. They also just removed the LEDs so they can say it doesn't RRoD. It still overheats and still has the same X-Clamp issue that caused the failures in the first place. The Jasper 360 Arcades on the other hand if you take good care of them and leave them in a well ventilated space are quite unlikely to overheat, and if they do, at least you've got a 3 year warranty instead of just 1 year.