The Xbox 360: Stripped
1 Comment Published November 16th, 2005 in Gaming, Internet, Microsoft, Technology
AnandTech have somehow gotten their hands on a premium edition Xbox 360 and for your pleasure they have taken it apart. This comprehensive tutorial is filled with pictures and with some easy to acquire (if you haven’t already gotten it) equipment.
Inside they discovered the Microsoft logo slapped all over the PowerPC-based CPU, Xenos GPU, and elsewhere clearly demonstrating the level of control Microsoft has had over this release compared to the original Xbox, which largely made use of off-the-shelf PC components.
I hope this doesn’t mean that Microsoft has ruined the console. probably not. The pictures are quite cool and even if you won’t want to take your apart if you get one it is still interesting to look at. I can see they have made the disassembly of the console harder than for the original Xbox. I took my original Xbox apart one weekend when I was bored and I can’t even explain the amount of dust that had accumulated over 2 and a half years that I found inside. Granted this 360 will have no dust inside since it is brand new.
There has been a lot of Xbox 360 news over this week and there will be for the next few weeks as the Xbox release is soon (Nov 22nd) in the US and everyone is excited and ready with their camping gear. The launch is still half a month away for us in the UK 
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