Anyone with botched xboxes?
 

Wanna get rid of them? Spares are always welcome in my home :)

i have 3 xboxes and counting, i'm considering the halo edition one for a 4th

id liek to just pick up an xbox with no DVD nor HDD in it. Just mod it up, drop a cd-r in it and drop it in a slimline case as a network terminal media center

I've heard that using the Xbox and turning it into a computer produces a better computer than you can find anywhere. My hubby was telling me about an article he read on the subject and now he wants to tear into the kids xbox and turn it into a server...

I think your hubby is just excited that he found a new toy and exagerated. it does not produce a better computer than anywhere. There is not enough ram nor CPU power to handle full on 5.1 DVD with hdtv playback unles he was to order an extremely modded version with1433Mhz cpu and 128mb shared ram. Most modern PC's can do this fine and better than even the modded version.

Here is the thing though, for what the xbox was meant to do, this thing is wicked powerful. it can be a full on media center.

Check out these pics http://xboxmediacenter.de/info_screens.htm

I have this in my living room on the xbox. It's a picture viewer, shoutcast recorder/player, video jukebox, music jukebox, weather station and gaming system all in one. I even have a fully functional web browser on it. Best of all, ALL of my music and video is not even on the xbox. It's sitting on the PC I am typing at right now. Just connect the xbox to your home network, setup the xboxmediacenter.xml settings file to use your samba shares and you are all set. Just kepe sure to keep your internal network protected behind a router/firewall when using samba.

It's a very powerful system when unleashed, but it's far from the best computer.

i've got one xbox, it has a chip in it so i can copy the shit straight on no cd's. :thumbsup

I got an xbox and ive used it like for one month continously then got bored of it and it just sits collecting dust

same here, and for some reason I keep buying games that I only play once :helpme

Try all star baseball 2k5
pretty fun

Same here, maybe I'll just turn it into a DVD player and hook it up to TV in my shitter. :)