Core or Premium

I am strongly thinking about getting a xbox 360 (mainly cause of Halo 3.) Anyways, I have a few questions. First and most obivious from the title, should I get the premium or core? Is the only difference the 20GB hard Drive? And is that hard drive that important? I am in college so I have a slightly restricted budged ^_^. Second question is do I really need to buy it from a store for the warrenty or is it safe to buy it off eBay or other online websites, will I still have the warrenty from buying it on eBay? From the few threads I read it seems that people go through these things like hotcakes (srry, had to sayit.) In all seriousness though, many people complainabout having to send theirs off for a month to get it repaired! It has me scarred :( Well,thx for any answers,

SilverCobra

Definitely look at the Premium or Elite. And like anything else it's hard to say if it's fail or not. There are millions of consoles with no issues and there are many that have issues. If you do buy it off of Ebay, then you'll have to see if you can return it to the seller for a different unit if yours fails. If the seller is an individual with a single unit, then you'd have no choice but to send it to MS to get it replaced.

So it might make sense to buy it from a regular retailer with a good return policy..just in case..

Premium.

I have many friends that bought the core and u seriously get shafted:

no hard drive

no headset

no component/hdmi

no shiny disc tray:(

Me, I was smart enough to the the premium nuff said.

Guess it would help if I could spell!

Refurbished*

DO NOT BUY THE CORE! It is unplayable out of the box as you need some type of memory device to make a profile (cheapest being the 64MB memory card for $40). However, that $60 that you are saving by buying the core will eventually be spent on accessories like an xbox live headset (which comes with the premium). So in the long run you are saving maybe $30, if that, and you are getting much less. The harddrive is great to have so you can download all the free demos from the marketplace (which are over 500MB and wont fit on the memory card).

So the moral of this story, and I'll make my point through repetition, DO NOT BUY THE CORE!

I just bought the core as i already said , i have the accesores that came with my previous order from the premius system. I ordered a new system from amazon.com, do you guys know if the new system are fixed at least on something about the rod. I know that warranty is now 3 years. But new system have microsoft fixed something that release system did ot have or they are the same?

By the way my system should arrive this monday :D