Xbox 360 Slim on the way? Steve Balmer talk

[joeorc]

hduser said:

joeorc said:

hduser said:
I'm not sure how the 360 will get slimmer. Lower cooling requirement due to new chips can only go so far. The area of the board is pretty ideal already and would not see a noticeable size difference in the shrinkage. Power supply could stand some shrinkage though.

it may end up like what the % may be near 30 to 40% $ smaller, but It may not be able to be shrunk anymore below that size for quite some time. due to heat issue's

here is the reduction size of the PS3

33% in size and 36% lighter.

would be the most likely reduct for even the xbox360 also, Heat issue's are still going to be a problem even for smaller chip'sesp. when you have 3 of them each running at 3.2 GHz in the xbox360.

those generate quite a bit of heat.

with passive heat pipe cooling and heat sink cooling and with airflow that can work wonder's.

You can't directly compare the PS3 shrinkage to the 360.  They took some features out of the original PS3.  No more card reader and PS2 compatability.  The cooler on the PS3 was big compared to 360.   Once they did the die shrink for PS3 and removed those other features, they could shrink it down.  The power supply got smaller too since it didn't need as much power and so did the cooling equpment.

The 360 was designed to be slim already thats why they went with 2 60mm fans rather than a single larger fan.  The heatsink is already slimmed.  I don't see that much to gain in the slimness department.  In the board layout they simplified the power and capacitor arrangement so I might be able to see some area reduction but not that much.  Since the power supply is external, there's no benefit there.

that's not what i am saying, what i am talking about is the 33% to 36% reduction, I only posted that as a guide line. of course their reduction is not going to look alike, I was just saying the 33% to 36% is what the number for the xbox360 reduction % will or most likely be at.