Oh wait, Valhalla is due this year? Sweet! Hopefully the 360 slim will be released sooner than I had hoped then!

Yeah Argos are selling it for 169 Euro so might check it out.

Built-in 256 internal memory= confirmed Jasper unit!

Nice one I might take out there 3 year warranty that way you are covered all round.

I got my Red Jasper Elite :)

Nice you got a Jasper,Jasper ftw!

Buy a used HDD, install your games, and your 360 will run so quietly you won't even hear it! Not to mention your disk drive will last much longer.

One thing if you own Halo 3. Do not and I repeat "DO NOT install Halo 3 to your HDD".

I haven't tried installing games yet must try it out.

Why?

The New Xbox Experience launched without much of a hitch. However, the NXE feature that allows gamers to "install" their games to the console's HDD isn't working perfectly; one of the most problematic games for this is also one of the console's most popular: Halo 3. 

In a post on Inside Bungie, it's revealed that installing the game actually increases loading times. Chief caching officer Mat Noguchi explained why this is: essentially, Halo 3 is slower to run off the hard drive because the game still thinks it's running off a DVD, which makes it reload the data onto the HDD like it would if it were reading a game disc. It may sound circular, but it leads to slow loading.

"[This is because] you read and write through the same mechanism, i.e., the hard drive read/write head," said Noguchi, "and those reads and writes cannot occur simultaneously through a single mechanism. (If they could, it would be awesome, and I wouldn't have to document any of this. Unfortunately, it’s not easy to do for other reasons.)"

Because Halo 3 was shipped before Microsoft had actually finalized this feature, Bungie wasn't able to prepare the game to utilize it. This is why, Bungie says, the shooter is slower to load while other games are experiencing improved load times.

As for whether or not the developer will make an effort to fix this problem, it doesn't look likely. "I would be a significant undertaking to try and retroactively patch/update Halo 3 to be optimized to take advantage of the HDD install features of NXE," Naguchi concluded. "The risks of doing that and the resources required has to be carefully considered against what could really be a rather insignificant change to the player experience."

Source: http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2008/11/bungie-addresses-halo-3-nxe-hdd-install-issue.ars