In your world better, yes. At least you even got a small piece of understanding.

You are welcome.

Honestly, an external power supply is better than an internal power supply.  You remove a primary source of heat.  You remove a potential failure point, making it easily fixable with a replacement part.  And when you combine a 6' cable on either end of the power supply, you have 12' from the wall you can work with.

The only benefit of an internal power supply is that you don't have an external power supply. 

Wow. Power brick superiority? This is really what it's come to?

I don't think they did focus groups.  I think the executives came up with a plan of what they wanted to do and didn't really put feelers.

If you don't see how Microsoft wasn't prepared, then you're kind of blind.  I mean, for a year there has been a DRM rumor regarding the Xbox One (Durango) and at the Xbox reveal Microsoft not only doesn't address it properly, but they handled it very poorly.  When everyone is talking off different notes, there is a communications problem.  When one executive tells people, we'll talk more about that later, and then another starts talking about some of those details before the more important details in between were talked about, there is a communications problem.

The only way to have a communications problem THAT bad is to be unprepared.

You've obviously never worked in a warehouse.

It would be on top, but it makes the box top heavy, and more subject to tipping.

Center of gravity.  Put the heaviest item on the bottom, you put the center of gravity lower, the box is more stable.  Not to mention the "top" of most boxes are designed to be stronger than the bottoms.  Those folded sides, for example, they create strength, but that strength is at the top of the box, not at the bottom. 

When you start stacking boxes on top of boxes, and you have a high center of gravity, any movement will cause them to tip over.  If you flip the box over, because you've loaded it "upside down", the bottom of the box will get crushed by the boxes on top.  Anything heavy you want on the bottom of a box.

Every pallet has a load pattern, every box has to be loaded in a certain way.  Doesn't matter what box, they all need to be loaded properly.

Pretty cool video. I like the look of the console itself, but the controller looks more boomerangy then it did before. I don't know how I feel about that.

You are assuming that they keep them the right way up the whole time... I was thinking along the lines of my new laptop where I open the box and the first thing I see is the beautiful top of the laptop. It is definitely the most asthetically pleasing way.

I suppose that should work, though IR blasters are rarely 100% at the best of times. I don't think it will work with my stuff anyway

As for your other quote:

I am not neccessarily saying that M$ was fully prepared, I am just saying that they have absolutely no excuse for not being prepared.
So firstly, there is no way that they should not have been planning the Xbox One for this year
Secondly, they would have known that always online was going to be controversial and they were just plain stupid in not talking about it or addressing it fully

My God that's a sexy beast.

That is like the worst possible way to explain yourself dude lol.

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Microsoft wants the Xbox One to be as quiet as possible even during the most intense gaming situations. Putting the PSU outside the console really helps with this since there is less heat and more room in the box meaning you can fit a larger fan rotating at a lower speed.

Headset! Woot woot!

Anyone have any info on the kensington security lock feature? I have no idea what that is and how to use it.

System looks fucking beautiful.