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Jessman on 23 February 2008

All the new models should have HDMI, Falcon chipsets, and all the other little goodies.

Arcade: Great for Casuals comes with arcade disk with 5 classics on them (fun for like...an hour) a 256M memory unit, the controller, everything you need to plug it in and play.

Premium: Great value, 20 gig hard drive, 2 (decent) games

Elite: (What i have) Great system, looks nice, 120 gig hard drive is always good for your media needs, i'm pretty sure it comes with two games, you get the HDMI cable with it, and its Black.

It's all upto you bud, all depends on what your after, i hope this helps.



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Kratos on 23 February 2008

You should get the PS3 model. Kidding :D
Get the Elite.



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Dark_Lord_2008 on 23 February 2008

What a week seeing the announcement of Gears of War2 and now having seen this amazing game, Ninja Gaiden 2. This game looks so much better than DMC4, love the multi-hit combos, fast combat, lots of blood.
Check out NG2 video on IGN
http://au.xbox360.ign.com/articles/853/853516c.html



kn on 23 February 2008

Shams --

Whichever model you get, you are looking for the most recent motherboard design which has a smaller CPU and a *slightly* smaller GPU. Someone took one apart and showed the the GPU was shrunk, but probably just a die rev to an interim 80nm size.

Regardless, the latest motheroboards use a 175Watt power supply instead of the 203W. Find one that specifies 175W on the rear of the box and you'll know you have the latest hardware. Your likeliness of failure with that unit is (anecdotally) quite small. Also note that if yours DOES fail, they will have to send you back a 175W model as they don't usually ask for the power supply...

Good luck, and man, are you in for some great games... Right out of the gate I would get Gears, Bioshock, Mass Effect, COD4, etc... Game on...



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Systems I currently own:  360, PS3, Wii, DS Lite (2)
Systems I've owned: PS2, PS1, Dreamcast, Saturn, 3DO, Genesis, Gamecube, N64, SNES, NES, GBA, GB, C64, Amiga, Atari 2600 and 5200, Sega Game Gear, Vectrex, Intellivision, Pong.  Yes, Pong.

crumas2 on 23 February 2008

Pro model.



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Daddo Splat on 27 February 2008

If your not downloading demos and tv shows and movies off of live the arcade if fine! My son has an original core it went out at 9 months after playing 4 hours of a zombie game and MS fixxed it its been fine since over 2 1/2 years old and still under warranty!



weezy on 27 February 2008

I would wait till after E3



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Man on 27 February 2008

Shams,

You're Australian right?
I dunno if it would make a difference to you, but a few places have the 360 pro for $500 now.



starcraft on 27 February 2008

Yeah JB Hi-fi is currently listing the Pro for $498. Although it's listed, there is a shortage around me. I can't find a single pro in a JB, EB or Game.



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