Microsoft Xbox 360

The XBOX 360 has so many new features as opposed to the older version.  Some features that really stand out are the wireless remotes, the 20gb hard drive and the aesthetically pleasing exterior casing.

Firstly the XBOX 360 is available in a choice of silver or black.  Both are very appealing and it is a matter of personal choice which one the consumer wants to choose.  Additionally you can remove nearly all the plates from the exterior casing to replace with whatever color you want.

The wireless remotes are a blessing.  No more tangled remote wires or having to sit close to the console just to be able to play the many wonderful games.

The 20gb hard drive is more than ample to store multimedia such as videos and music.  The hard drive is also upgradeable leaving the option to upgrade later down the track but this won’t be necessary.  Just to give you an idea of how much 20gb can hold, it can store either 5 full length dvd movies or upwards of 6000 mp3 songs.

Below the visually appealing exterior lies a lot of processing power.  The XBOX 360 has 3 3.2GHz processor. Standard personal computers have just the one processor.  Imagine 3 times the processing power above a normal pc. These three cpu’s get very hot, so keep you xbox well ventilated.

To match the processing power the XBOX 360 has a custom ATI graphics processor.  The ATI graphics processor has a whopping 512mb of RAM and runs at a speed of 500MHz.  This is enough to make light work of any high end game.

Besides the major feature of the XBOX 360 that I’ve listed above, it also comes with many additional accessories such as the wireless headset and so on.  The XBOX 360 is a great innovation in the world of gaming and will continue to increase in popularity making it a formidable opponent to sony’s playstation 3 and its beating Nintendo with ease.