The only advantages it has is storage space (on that point hard drives are quickly becoming the future with online downloads as the the HDD is faster and holds enormous amounts of data way faster than blu ray and holds more data) and decreased noise thats it blu ray isnt the future for gaming its way too slow a very good example of how slow it is is to time how long it takes to put a small amount of game data to hard drive on the ps3, the load times you talk about are the ps3's hard drive running partially installed parts of the game compare the install time of the ps3 which only installs parts of a game, compare that to the 360 when you dump the ENTIRE dvd to the hard drive. You contradicted yourself when you said 1) decrease load times then said for your 2nd point decreased spin speed also, as mentioned before decreased spin speed means decreased load times as it doesn't read the data off the disk as fast. This is the reason PS3 has to install parts of all games to hard drive to decrease load times. ck1984 - Monday, Jlink Dumb comment because you didn't check FACTS and you contradicted yourself for a start the facts are blu ray is SLOWER than dvd at load times because it spins the disk slower than dvd's e.g all blu rays spin at 2x speed dvd's go up to 24x i think.Yep, they’re back, and even more of a pain. With the two chrome surrounds removed we’re now at the second most difficult part of dissecting the new Xbox 360. You’ve got 6 on one side and 5 on the other chrome lip, the shots below should help you. Start with the clips you know you can get off and then try to pry the tough ones later. Some of the clips are only accessible via a very tiny, very long flat head. Some clips will give way easily, others will take some coercion. Wedge it between the clip and the rest of the chassis and push away from the chassis: These are attached via clips that can be tempted loose using that trusty flat head screwdriver. Now we have to remove the two chrome surrounds on either side of the system. It is just plugged into an internal USB port. Remove the T8 screw and the card slides right out. Great.Īt this point you can also remove the 802.11n card which is held in place by a single screw. Now you’ve got line of sight into the system itself. Do this around the edge until the entire cover is removed. You’ll see a lot of flexing and then hear a pop, once you hear one move to the next portion of the plastic cover. Stick your screwdriver in one of the cutouts and pry away. Thankfully doing so doesn’t fundamentally ruin the system. It looks like Microsoft did this to make opening the new 360 something that could only be properly reversed at Microsoft itself. In fact, removing these plastic covers will break part of the stands off. The stands are wider at their outer most edge than they are at the base, too wide to just fit through the hole. The cover is attached to the system by several plastic stands that fit through little holes behind them. You can wedge your flathead between the plastic cover and the rest of the system and pry it off. Removing the two plastic grates will reveal two more black plastic covers. This next part is the first of two hard parts, and I’m not sure there’s a way around this. I crammed a plastic tool between the chrome casing and the plastic grate to pull it off and then wedged my fingers in there to get the entire piece off. The side without the hard drive is a bit more difficult.
They are attached using clips along their edges so work one part out with your flat head driver and just pull the rest off. Next we have two plastic grates on the left and right of the system that pop right off. To start you’ll want to first remove the hard drive.