12-10-12, 10:20 AM
if buying live memberships or Microsoft points, go to eBay and find one of the folk that sell the codes. In the high street, a membership will set you back the best part of 40 but the eBay guys do it cheaper, sometimes, I think, because of the exchange rates. Expect to pay 20-25 on eBay. 2000 Microsoft points is about 17 quid if buying through live, but the eBay code guys will ask for around a tenner.
The machine above is sound enough. the bigger the HDD is usually the better, although I have old style 120gb and I've never even been close to filling it, although, if its being used for films and movies then it would fill quite easily. The xbox reads flash drives so I just download to that and plug it in and I've usually got several demos on the system as well as around 30 games installed (mostly arcade and indie games).
if you can get a cheaper machine it will usually be cos of smaller HDD, which is fine, unless its the 6gig one. A total farce of a package by Microsoft. 6gig barely covers saves and a find of mine found it to be useless when battlefield 3 came out cos the developer released a 5gig HD patch that he couldn't install. 60gig would be plenty. I've installed full games in the past but I've never noticed that much of a difference in load times. The main thing for me doing it was because my disc motor makes a Hell of a racket, installing games does away with this and the disc only provides authorisation of the games legitimacy.
The machine above is sound enough. the bigger the HDD is usually the better, although I have old style 120gb and I've never even been close to filling it, although, if its being used for films and movies then it would fill quite easily. The xbox reads flash drives so I just download to that and plug it in and I've usually got several demos on the system as well as around 30 games installed (mostly arcade and indie games).
if you can get a cheaper machine it will usually be cos of smaller HDD, which is fine, unless its the 6gig one. A total farce of a package by Microsoft. 6gig barely covers saves and a find of mine found it to be useless when battlefield 3 came out cos the developer released a 5gig HD patch that he couldn't install. 60gig would be plenty. I've installed full games in the past but I've never noticed that much of a difference in load times. The main thing for me doing it was because my disc motor makes a Hell of a racket, installing games does away with this and the disc only provides authorisation of the games legitimacy.
Smell ones mother. Yaas!