Specs of Microsofts next XBox

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Squilliam said:

NightAntilli said:
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Hard Disk:
One thing.. SSD costs more, but is also faster than a traditional Hard Disk. On reading that is.. Writing is slower.. So installing games might take longer, but I doubt they will remove the option to plug your current HD in it if all this is true. I would actually think it would be better if this was internal hard drive space but oh well..

The only weakness really for an SSD is cost. No optical drive could saturate the write speed of anything but one of the slowest SSD's available today. The real benefit is threefold. 1st. All consoles would have storage for online updates. 2nd. It would augment the memory available because the transfer speeds can exceed 400MB/S with low latency. 3rd. People could resume playing a game almost instantly and put the console in suspend mode.

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No offense, but I decided to add my thoughts to yours rather than write anything out.

The only weakness of a SSD IMO is size. 360 games are ~9Gig - this could support extra layered DVDs as well, giving even more capacity.

A 32gig SSD would not last long - price-wise it would compare to a 300gig(?) hard disk.

But then, it gives MS an easy 'Apple' upgrade option - crank up the internal storage, release a new model, ...

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Anyway, lets wait and see. Going to be real interesting. If nothing else, it would definitely force Sony's hand on price. This is much more like the aggressive MS I was expecting to see in the industry.