NXE Review By Rahul

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cod5 beta isnt worth not getting NXE early

Only played 30 minutes of it, but you just might be right.

I need Live, mostly for Gears of War atm and GoW2 when it comes out next week. Horde looks like too much fun to miss to lose my gamerpic and have some sparkly dashboard.

I personally just want the hard drive install feature. So tired of the noise the dvd drive makes, AND my Rock Band 2 disc rarely boots the first time I put it in, hoping that the hard drive install feature will fix that. No scratches on it or anything, it doesn't even sound like the drive winds up to try to read it, not until I eject it and close the tray again.

Although, no live means no updates, right? Does that include the media update required to play xvid/divx?

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Whoa, NXE is really great!

It's so fast, looks so good and works like a charm (Y)

Hey...want to play some COD? Oh wait... :laugh:

As tempting as this is, I'm waiting. Don't mind waiting a couple more weeks.

Now that I think about it, there is something else that Sethos likes??? What's this world coming to?

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I personally just want the hard drive install feature. So tired of the noise the dvd drive makes, AND my Rock Band 2 disc rarely boots the first time I put it in, hoping that the hard drive install feature will fix that. No scratches on it or anything, it doesn't even sound like the drive winds up to try to read it, not until I eject it and close the tray again.

Although, no live means no updates, right? Does that include the media update required to play xvid/divx?

Yeah lessening the DVD drive noise made it worth it for me.

I don't think you can play DivX until you get Live back, keep that in mind.

NXE is much better than dash, but the menus are still a little over complicated. You're scrolling up then across quite often. Easy enough for me though.

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your review is actually better than any of these in-depth reviews

Agreed!

Great review Rahul, I think you covered everything well :)

Here's an install video and a short tour I created for a buddy on another website, sorry about the quality YouTube compresses video a lot worse then I remember.

Install Video: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=DAbqAJ78LJc

Short Tour: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=0LpAj2kRtgM

There's more than one console in this house so I'll still be on live ;)

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It's the exact same on the Wii and PS3 though, so why complain now :s

Different way of scrolling due to the way NXE angles your icons/axis, you can't read what's coming up as easy.

Just something I noticed, I'm hardly complaining Munky.

It's like 2.5D kinda, that's how I'd explain it.

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Rahul

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dumb question here but, you im not going to get banned from installing this? thought id check

You don't get banned from doing this , because Major Nelson didn't seem to say so. Anyways i think all you gotta lose is XBL connectivity till 19th. Sounds like a fair deal to me.

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I installed it. Menu's are more streamlined and things are snappier now.

Installed Fable II on the 20GB HD. The load times for Fable II are marginally faster. I was hoping for quicker load times. One of the loading segments felt longer than usual... the choir even finished before the loading did.

Don't know if it's the placebo effect, but pausing the game for the menu felt a little faster and less stuttery. Previously the game would stutter right when I pressed Start and the menu would slide into view with a little bit of lag. My HD might be borked, though. Oblivion wouldn't load at all (would freeze and stutter) until I entered some kind of cache clearing code months after I've played it fine.

All in all, a great update. Playing from the HD didn't speed things up as fast as I hoped. It's also a lot quieter now, though.

Just wondering, are the XBOX 360 HDD's 5400 RPM?

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im gonna kill my friend next time i see him he got into this program, borrowed my console because his brother took his to a friends for the weekend i got console back today ( gotta finish dead space) with this new update and i cant use live till this thing comes out. and i see no way to remove it or revert back. just bought a points card and fable II cant play co-op or spend the dam points.

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im gonna kill my friend next time i see him he got into this program, borrowed my console because his brother took his to a friends for the weekend i got console back today ( gotta finish dead space) with this new update and i cant use live till this thing comes out. and i see no way to remove it or revert back. just bought a points card and fable II cant play co-op or spend the dam points.

Did he get in using his xbox then his brother took it resulting in him installing it on your console or just installed it on your console.

Either way that sucks and he should have asked you before hand :/

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