edge-online.com - 12/5/2008
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Following our report on the convincing suggestions that Microsoft has updated the 360’s motherboard – a measure intended to make the console less susceptible to RRoD-related hardware failures – Microsoft has confirmed that 360’s Arcade SKU will feature 256MB of flash ...
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Console Gamers, Take Off Your Blinders
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... It's funny that the big thing this holiday season for XBox360 users is to try to track down the code-name "Jasper" versions of the console. The update gives users an extra boost to internal memory, a new motherboard, and a new lower-power CPU. Wow, sounds like a pretty significant upgrade ... except the problem is that you've got to dump your old console off on someone first. Microsoft says "We are constantly updating the consoles’ more than 1700 internal components." Is it not frustrating that Microsoft is continually improving the product right under your nose, but you ...
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