Sigh, that's right, I finally sold out and bought a &*^#@*(&$^
360. it only took me two years to catch up with the rest of the Modern
World of Gaming. I picked it up last night at the Microcenter up the
street from my office, forked over my $230 (it's a refurbished unit)
and they handed me a deck with 20GB HD, headset (won't be using that
one too much), wireless controller (nice touch) and all the necessary
cables and doodads to plug the thing into the Internowhere. All wrapped
up nice and tight in a mostly-unmarked, unassuming brown box-shaped
box. Fresh from a coffin, I am sure. I fought (valiantly) with the
jungle of wires and dead crickets behind my Low Defiition Television
and Entertainment Unit to hook the thing into the tangly nightmare,
turned it on and stuck in a copy of Tony Hawk 2007 Ex-travaganza to
make sure it ran. Sure enough, she lit up and ran like a charm, and
sure enough there was a problem (the "wireless connect" button on the
faceplate was busted). I got in there with a pen and finagled it.
Haven't got on Live yet (I won an auction for a membership, waiting
patiently for them to email it over to me.. tap, tap, tap) so until
then I will leave the thing resting idly in the "off" position 'neath
my TV. Sadly, I tried to put the unit into one of the close-able areas
of the cabinet, though I noted that the thing gets HOTTTTT when it's on
for more than 14 seconds... and so it must sit out front, proudly
displaying it's ugly, ugly design for all who enter my living room to
gawk at in disgust. Have I mentioned how unattractive I think the unit
is?
Anyway, it detected the network connection through my router
(and my internet connection from my PC seems to be working at the
moment, obviously) so I am happy to report that stuff is all set up. I
am sure the unit will fail (crappy odds) sometime in the next 3-6
months.. hopefully before my 1-Yr warranty expires. Let's see.
After
I get on Live I will start plodding through to see what demos I can get
my hands on.. the main point of my purchasing this thing. Stay tuned.
