I think the Elite has just as much of a chance as breaking as the others. However I do recommend it over anything else Xbox 360-wise because of it's large hard drive along other things.
I think the Elite has just as much of a chance as breaking as the others. However I do recommend it over anything else Xbox 360-wise because of it's large hard drive along other things.
I like that it has a large hard drive but, I just want to know if it's more reliable, I'd rather get a pro or even an arcade if it's more reliable...
Yes, it is good. Back when it was still called the "Core/Premium" for the standard models, the Elite benefitted from being made of the components that passed ALL of Microsoft's hardware testing. Even now, it still holds advantage for coming with a larger hard drive, and more importantly, all the cabling that you would need to be able to hook it to any kind of display, save a VGA cable for a computer monitor. I myself have had incredibly good luck with my Xbox 360; far better than any generation of PlayStation thus far (I don't have a PS3 yet, and am trying to procrastinate on it as much as possible because of my history with Sony). But if my current one were to kick the bucket proverbially, I guess I would simply have to "suck it up" and pay the extra $100 or so to upgrade to an Elite unit, as I keep finding myself nearing the limit of this 20GB hard drive.
Well, I'm using the newer version of the Elite. I love that it does have a larger HD but I've only had it for almost 3 months now, so can't really tell you if it is reliable. I live in a hot humid climate area but since it is winter and bloody cold (I don't have heaters in my flat/apt) right now, I'm not worried about overheating (it does get hot!). I'll wait until the wet, hot, humid summer comes and then I'll see what happens. The X360 at work already died 6-9 mths into it's life but it was always on mostly with aircon on during the day & off at night. Our office rec-room gets pretty hot with 2 42" tv's plus the wii, ps3 and the x360, even with the aircon on. Oh, the X360 was not a newer version Pro edition.
Yes, it is good. Back when it was still called the "Core/Premium" for the standard models, the Elite benefitted from being made of the components that passed ALL of Microsoft's hardware testing. Even now, it still holds advantage for coming with a larger hard drive, and more importantly, all the cabling that you would need to be able to hook it to any kind of display, save a VGA cable for a computer monitor. I myself have had incredibly good luck with my Xbox 360; far better than any generation of PlayStation thus far (I don't have a PS3 yet, and am trying to procrastinate on it as much as possible because of my history with Sony). But if my current one were to kick the bucket proverbially, I guess I would simply have to "suck it up" and pay the extra $100 or so to upgrade to an Elite unit, as I keep finding myself nearing the limit of this 20GB hard drive.codezer0
Your're pretty lucky, my 360 died on me like 2 weeks after my warranty expired, and it didn't got the RRoD, it got 1 red light "Error 74" I believe, and my parents won't send it to repairs, they keep promising me they will but bleh they never do... ):
I've had my ELITE since the midnight release and I've had it in Miami FL in dead summer and currently in theCaribbeanand until now no problems. Here in the Caribbean the windows don't shut well so more dust rolls in the house and constant power surges so that doesn't help either nor does the fact that I left my cooling fan for it back in the states, but I've had 3 run in's with the RROD but I just unplugged everything and let it set for a day clean any visible dust problem solved. So for anyone else back in the states the Caribbean has ALOT higher humidity than anywhere else so yours will be fine heck you guys have AC lol.
Not necessarily. However, with the larger hard drive, you can install more of your games rather than play them from the disc which is supposed to keep the xbox running cooler thus reducing the chance of overheating.
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