Opening the Xbox 360's box
Unpacking the Xbox 360 felt very reminicent of unpacking an Apple product. Everything in the box was neatly wrapped and fit perfectly in the box. Everything was wrapped in an appropriately coloured piece of plastic wrap.
Hell, even the batteries for the wireless controller were wrapped in matching green plastic.
Whatever we’re paying the industrial designers for the Xbox 360, it’s not enough.
I have to say though that the box that it all came in was damn heavy, mostly due to the power brick. The only fault of the packaging is that it didn’t have a handle - the box is awkward to carry at that weight.
But once setup, connected to the net and attached to the 50” plasma and set to 720p, it is gorgeous. The media connect stuff just works - I was viewing pictures and listening to audio streaming from my PC in no time at all.
Oh, and the games are pretty good too :-)
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Oh I hate you....
I got 'the phone call' Sunday evening at 5pm 'Sorry Sir we don't have enough 360s delivered for you to pick on up on Tuesday'. B****** F****** W******. Still maybe I will do something useful this week instead.
You can come round and look at my 360 if you like ;-)
But is your's scratching your game discs? Looks like I'll have to try out our return mechanism - bleh :(
You'd think this wouldn't be such a problem after PS2 had the same problem, as did the original xbox albeit to a much lesser extent.
Oh, and I'm having trouble getting my typekey to validate here for some reason.
Joe - Nope, I've had no problems...
hey i think i got an xbox 360 but its wrapped so could somebody give me the measurements of the box please?