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twesterm on 18 March 2010
alekth said:
twesterm said:

Why is this such a big deal?

I could understand that if this let you actually have a decent sizes hard drive but 16 gigs?  Meh.

I have a 120gig right now so maybe that's why I don't care a lot but even when I had a 20gig hard drive I don't think I would have really cared about another 16 gigs that much.

^ I think it's a pretty sweet deal for the people who have no hdd at all, 20Gb still does the job but 256Mb/512Mb pretty much forces you to buy a hdd if you download games.

Yeah, I didn't think of the people that have no hard drive.  It's not a bad deal but still not three exclamation mark news.  :-p



 

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JaggedSac on 18 March 2010
nightsurge said:
The only thing I am a bit suspicious of is the ability to play DLC, Games on Demand, and installed to hard drive games off of USB drives. Seems like the data speed limit of USB might negate the benefits of playing games off the hard drive since SATA has a much higher transfer speed.

It would negate it if it were slower than optical read speeds.



slowmo on 18 March 2010
nightsurge said:
slowmo said:
nightsurge said:
CommonMan said:
That. . . is really awesome. Also, more things pointing towards a slim, that mobo we saw didn't seem to have memory slots, and now we know why. I'm officially intrigued by the slim rumors now.

This is exactly what I was going to say.  More proof that the slim leaked mobo photos are real as this update removes the need for memory cards and like you said, the photos showed no more memory card slots on the mobo.

There was one memory card slot on that motherboard fella.

 

OT - great to hear although some people will try and spin this as a negative as always.

No there weren't.  At least not confirmed.  The only place a memory card slot could have been was at the bottom right which I'm hoping was just 2 USB ports like the old models to keep some USB ports at the front.  The other usb port looking thing to the left is where the Ring of Light module plugs into.

 

That was the memory card connector on the bottom right, its not really questionable if you look at it carefully.  The ring of light module is commonly referred to as the power/RF board as it contains the power switch and the bluetooth receiver for your wireless controllers.  There is no front USB on that board which is one of the reasons I questioned its authenticity.  Thats not to say a front USB isn't possibly connected to one of the headers on the board itself.



alekth on 18 March 2010

Yeah, the three exclamation marks would have been appropriate if it weren't capped at 16Gb.



nightsurge on 18 March 2010
nightsurge said:
slowmo said:
nightsurge said:
CommonMan said:
That. . . is really awesome. Also, more things pointing towards a slim, that mobo we saw didn't seem to have memory slots, and now we know why. I'm officially intrigued by the slim rumors now.

This is exactly what I was going to say.  More proof that the slim leaked mobo photos are real as this update removes the need for memory cards and like you said, the photos showed no more memory card slots on the mobo.

There was one memory card slot on that motherboard fella.

 

OT - great to hear although some people will try and spin this as a negative as always.

No there weren't.  At least not confirmed.  The only place a memory card slot could have been was at the bottom right which I'm hoping was just 2 USB ports like the old models to keep some USB ports at the front.  The other usb port looking thing to the left is where the Ring of Light module plugs into.

 

Notice how the USB ports on a mobo have those same indentation prongs like the bottom right section of the new mobo picture:

(yes I know this says USB 3.0, but USB 2.0 on mobos is the same way so long as there isn't aything on top of them like that ethernet port.  This picture showed it the easiest)

The memory card slots on the old mobo had no such indented prongs on top.  You can also see the Ring of Light Module connector in about the same spot on both mobos:



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slowmo on 18 March 2010
JaggedSac said:
nightsurge said:
The only thing I am a bit suspicious of is the ability to play DLC, Games on Demand, and installed to hard drive games off of USB drives. Seems like the data speed limit of USB might negate the benefits of playing games off the hard drive since SATA has a much higher transfer speed.

It would negate it if it were slower than optical read speeds.

Also bear in mind that in the hacking community people are playing games already off USB sticks and external USB harddrives without any issues.



nightsurge on 18 March 2010
slowmo said:
nightsurge said:
slowmo said:
nightsurge said:
CommonMan said:
That. . . is really awesome. Also, more things pointing towards a slim, that mobo we saw didn't seem to have memory slots, and now we know why. I'm officially intrigued by the slim rumors now.

This is exactly what I was going to say.  More proof that the slim leaked mobo photos are real as this update removes the need for memory cards and like you said, the photos showed no more memory card slots on the mobo.

There was one memory card slot on that motherboard fella.

 

OT - great to hear although some people will try and spin this as a negative as always.

No there weren't.  At least not confirmed.  The only place a memory card slot could have been was at the bottom right which I'm hoping was just 2 USB ports like the old models to keep some USB ports at the front.  The other usb port looking thing to the left is where the Ring of Light module plugs into.

 

That was the memory card connector on the bottom right, its not really questionable if you look at it carefully.  The ring of light module is commonly referred to as the power/RF board as it contains the power switch and the bluetooth receiver for your wireless controllers.  There is no front USB on that board which is one of the reasons I questioned its authenticity.  Thats not to say a front USB isn't possibly connected to one of the headers on the board itself.

Read my updated post.  Those are definitely USB ports and not a memory card slot.  Also, the 360 has no Bluetooth receiver.  It uses RF 2.4GHz for wireless controllers.



slowmo on 18 March 2010
nightsurge said:
slowmo said:
nightsurge said:
slowmo said:
nightsurge said:
CommonMan said:
That. . . is really awesome. Also, more things pointing towards a slim, that mobo we saw didn't seem to have memory slots, and now we know why. I'm officially intrigued by the slim rumors now.

This is exactly what I was going to say.  More proof that the slim leaked mobo photos are real as this update removes the need for memory cards and like you said, the photos showed no more memory card slots on the mobo.

There was one memory card slot on that motherboard fella.

 

OT - great to hear although some people will try and spin this as a negative as always.

No there weren't.  At least not confirmed.  The only place a memory card slot could have been was at the bottom right which I'm hoping was just 2 USB ports like the old models to keep some USB ports at the front.  The other usb port looking thing to the left is where the Ring of Light module plugs into.

 

That was the memory card connector on the bottom right, its not really questionable if you look at it carefully.  The ring of light module is commonly referred to as the power/RF board as it contains the power switch and the bluetooth receiver for your wireless controllers.  There is no front USB on that board which is one of the reasons I questioned its authenticity.  Thats not to say a front USB isn't possibly connected to one of the headers on the board itself.

Read my updated post.  Those are definitely USB ports and not a memory card slot.  Also, the 360 has no Bluetooth receiver.  It uses RF 2.4GHz for wireless controllers.

Sorry it is RF but you got the idea.  Those are definately not USB ports but one of us will be proven right or wrong if its not a fake.  I've worked on thousands of PC boards and never ever seen a USB connector resemble that, feel free to prove me wrong and show a port that is that same shape and size though.  Also its fuinny how the dimensions in comparison to the Power board connector are exactly the same as the old board.  So the only argument we have for them being USB is some indentations?????



Lord Flashheart on 18 March 2010

I thought that Mobo had been proven as fake. It was simply a PC mobo?



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gamelover2000 on 18 March 2010

I now 100% believe the slim rumors



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