Microsoft's Xbox 360 Surges Ahead of the Competition

[Reasonable]

Stan85 said:

Reasonable said:
Sorry, but no console with that power brick, noise level and (at least initially) a critical design flaw can claim to have an elegant design.

And even if RROD is really a thing of the past the power brick alone kills the 360 as a triumph of design.

 

 Design flaw? You can install the games you want to play on the 360 hdd and therefore the DVD drive will not move therefore it will not generate heat. If you have a Falcon you`ll be fine,plus the 3 year warranty does the job.

Wait until the Jasper model (65 nm GPU) this or the next month if you want to be sure. That should kill your warries.

Taking care of the heat,moving on to the noise. Benq drives in Falcons and Liteon in Falcons/Jaspers are much better,and if you want no noise at all,install your games on the hdd. No heat and noise? Exactly.

Power brick? Ooops... LoL.

Yeah, but again they designed it with a crappy propritary HDD rather than go open.  Also, the fact you need the 3 year warrany kind of just confirms my point that something that in the beginning had critical design flaws cannot ever, by any stretch, be considered to be a well designed electronic device.

Now the 360 SDK is well designed, Live is well designed, the controller is well designed (for shooting more than other genres though IMHO).  But the console itself?  Nope.

Also, not that I care, but isn't it ironic that after years of bashing PS3 installs 360 owners are now estatic they can install to reduce noise and disk scratching?

The simple fact is both the Wii and the PS3 consoles are just much better designed, more reliable electronic devices.  Doesn't mean they have better games etc. but just as electronic devices in and of themselves they are better designed.