If you're a qualified electrical engineer and want to do work that may cast you as a hero in the eyes of many, many gamers, this is your chance. Please fix the Xbox 360 motherboard once and for all!
[Thanks @GameAddict!]
If you're a qualified electrical engineer and want to do work that may cast you as a hero in the eyes of many, many gamers, this is your chance. Please fix the Xbox 360 motherboard once and for all!
[Thanks @GameAddict!]
Reader Comments (83)
Posted: Mar 8th 2010 3:33PM LaughingTarget said
I wouldn't do so hot, I would insist to make the mobo look like Master Chief's head.
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Posted: Mar 8th 2010 3:56PM Morisato13 said
Could this be a sign of an upcoming x360slim? Or maybe they want to go the opposite direction with the x360phat.
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Posted: Mar 8th 2010 4:06PM MowDownJoe said
Would they really want to go back to having a system so big you could kill someone with it by dropping it on their head?
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Posted: Mar 8th 2010 3:34PM armageddon said
Since I'm a programmer I can't apply for this job but in all honesty having taken an electronics course way back in high school (last century btw) I know electrical engineering isn't my thing.
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Posted: Mar 8th 2010 3:52PM Sho Minamimoto said
Why the hell do you get upvoted for saying "cool story bro"? I swear that is one of the most annoying phrases on the internet. And its not like Armageddon was just saying random crap, he was actually replying to the article.
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Posted: Mar 8th 2010 4:03PM Cru said
Because even though he's responding, it's just a standard facebook status type reply: "Hi, I'm eating a sandwich." In this context, it practically IS random.
To which successful troll responds, "cool story, bro" facetiously.
It's elementary interwebs etiquette, man.
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To which successful troll responds, "cool story, bro" facetiously.
It's elementary interwebs etiquette, man.
Posted: Mar 8th 2010 3:34PM (Unverified) said
whoever had the job before needs to be blacklisted, bastard costed me a cpnsole.
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Posted: Mar 8th 2010 3:46PM Captain Planet Planeteer Power said
And what "costed" you your education?
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Posted: Mar 8th 2010 4:12PM Captain Planet Planeteer Power said
It's alright CaptainProtonX, you got your cool card a long time ago.
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Posted: Mar 8th 2010 5:03PM Cru said
What's worse? Being unable to articulate your complaint because of poor grammar, or not having your valid complaint's credence diminished by grammar police?
While I like a verbose and well utilized lexicon, nit-picking instances inure one to language's breadth. Why bother when you can just use newspeak and avoid the grammar police altogether, txt and l337 are out of their jurisdiction. Counter-intuitive indeed.
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While I like a verbose and well utilized lexicon, nit-picking instances inure one to language's breadth. Why bother when you can just use newspeak and avoid the grammar police altogether, txt and l337 are out of their jurisdiction. Counter-intuitive indeed.
Posted: Mar 8th 2010 6:03PM Captain Planet Planeteer Power said
You have embiggened us all with your cromulent response Emceay.
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Posted: Mar 8th 2010 6:31PM CaptainProtonX said
@ Emceay
Who the what now?
@ Captain Planet
Aaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwww, thanks.
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Who the what now?
@ Captain Planet
Aaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwww, thanks.
Posted: Mar 8th 2010 3:35PM armageddon said
My three are still working so I don't understand why yours keep breaking.
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Posted: Mar 8th 2010 3:59PM Peter F said
Think Cj. It depends which way you define as top. There is no definite top on the 360. He meant top when it is laying down. Unless they want to only shorten it front to back they will either have to make the HDD fit in like that or design a new HDD.
The HDD would look pretty ugly if they made it plug into the top (when it is laying down)
If they do anything, they should just shorten the console and/or integrate the power adapter.
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The HDD would look pretty ugly if they made it plug into the top (when it is laying down)
If they do anything, they should just shorten the console and/or integrate the power adapter.
Posted: Mar 8th 2010 4:12PM Arsenic13 said
Ah I forget people lay it down. Im so used to the vertical look. But placing it in the middle when its horizontal wont look very attractive. I wouldnt mind it it was just smaller but I was just battling with calling it SLIM. Its either not going to be slim, a horrible placement on its horizontal top or a new HDD design. A
All in all a smaller 360 with an internal power supply and a slot loading disk drive would be nice. Plus killing the RROD would be very nice.
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All in all a smaller 360 with an internal power supply and a slot loading disk drive would be nice. Plus killing the RROD would be very nice.
Posted: Mar 8th 2010 9:18PM Reinhart said
Why do people want a slim? (or like PS3 slim) Do y'all honestly carry it around town that often? And if they're system link/lan parties, are there really that many parties that often? For most of us I'm sure they don't move around much, beyond a couple of feet when people move it out of their cabinets and such. Honest question.
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Posted: Mar 8th 2010 4:03PM Funkmaster General said
If that was sarcasm it certainly fooled me.
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Posted: Mar 8th 2010 3:48PM MystileArmor said
I'm still on my first one, although my disc tray is getting to the point where I gotta open and close it multiple times to get it to read a disc on most occasions. I also had a lot of trouble with the thing just freezing up on me a whole lot, and I decided to open the sucker up, since my warranty expired and I figured I might have a shit ton of dust in there. i was right, got rid of all the dust that was stuck in there, put it back together and it's smooth sailing. Now I got the experience of taking the thing apart, I figured I might just replace the disc tray myself as well.
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Posted: Mar 8th 2010 3:52PM Shagittarius said
I would design it so that most of the important hardware functions would be modular. For example I'd make it so you could change the graphics chip, thereby allowing microsoft to upgrade the graphics mid-life cycle. The same could be done for the RAM, and CPU. In addition I'd include a standard interface for storage so that the user could cheaply add additional storage without paying premium prices and without sacrificing their previous storage space.
This would be a great design because not only would the machine not be rendered obsolete within a year but also because the competition of independent hardware developers would drive the technology at a faster rate than any single company could.
I can only image a platform like this.
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This would be a great design because not only would the machine not be rendered obsolete within a year but also because the competition of independent hardware developers would drive the technology at a faster rate than any single company could.
I can only image a platform like this.
Posted: Mar 8th 2010 4:01PM butaneko said
If they did do such a thing there's zero chance they'd allow 3rd party developers in on the action.
Anyway that's half the reason I'm not into PC gaming. I like popping in a game and knowing it's exactly the experience that the developers intended. I don't like wondering if a RAM or processor upgrade could improve my gaming experience.
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Anyway that's half the reason I'm not into PC gaming. I like popping in a game and knowing it's exactly the experience that the developers intended. I don't like wondering if a RAM or processor upgrade could improve my gaming experience.
Posted: Mar 8th 2010 4:02PM Ericloewe said
While I do agree with you (the RAM expansion would be very nice, since that's the major limiting factor for games on consoles right now and it's been proven mildly feasible before, especially as an optional feature for better graphics), I have to say that such a platform exists: It's called the 100% IBM-PC compatible
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Posted: Mar 8th 2010 3:54PM Mmmmz said
My 360 finally died. While watching a DVD no freaking less. I heard a pop and the DVD froze. Sadly, I knew what finally struck me. It was a console from about 1 year after launch so it was due.
I believe mine only lasted so long since I didn't play games on it very often. At least later in its life.
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I believe mine only lasted so long since I didn't play games on it very often. At least later in its life.
Posted: Mar 8th 2010 3:56PM CaptainProtonX said
@ Dr. Blight
To be used by three games? BRILLIANT!
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To be used by three games? BRILLIANT!
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