Xbox 360 specifications

Xbox 360 is much smaller than the original Xbox, it measures approximately 3.3 by 12.2 by 10.2 inches and weighs 7.7 lbs. (9 cm x 31 cm x 25 cm, 3,5 kg) It is powered by IBM PowerPC-based CPU with three symmetrical cores each running at 3.2 GHz.

Graphics card is a custom ATI graphics processor loaded with 10 MB of embedded DRAM, 48-way parallel floating-point dynamically scheduled shader pipelines and Unified shader architecture.

This is powerful enough to draw 500 million triangles per second. This makes it great for games in standard TV definition, and even better due to the built-in support for HDTV 1080i televisions. It also supports the widescreen 16:9 format.

The unit has a 12x dual-layer DVD-ROM drive, which plays both the game media and DVD movies. This means that you can use the Xbox 360 as a DVD player.

For game-save and media storage, users can choose between the detachable and upgradeable 60GB hard drive, or a separately sold 64MB flash Memory Unit.

Along with storing files, the hard drive will make the Xbox 360 backward-compatible with part of the existing Xbox game library.

Xbox LIVE Silver membership included, Gold membership required for online play and some downloads from xbox.com

Game backward compatibility requires a Xbox 360 hard disc drive, visit : xbox.com/games/backwardscompatibility for more information