I am sad to announce that my beloved 360 has finally died on me.

It was on a gloomy and rainy afternoon that I decided to fire up my 360 to play some gow. and then bam! three red lights.. the famous red ring of death.

unfortunately, microsoft is a piece of **** and the person on the other end, who turned out to be someplace in india, told be that even if I do send it over, they will not fix it. damn you microsoft damn you.

well on the bright side, I tried to fix it myself! using the washer / x clamp technique.

and guess what? it WORKED!!

....for five minutes.

damn thing red ringed on me a few minutes into the game.

so...for now, i have resorted to playing games on my laptop.

which surprisingly turns out to be quite gaming capable. very unexpected!

i always thought that since it had a built in intel graphics chip it wont be any good at doing anything.

to my surprise, my intel GMA 4500 MHD not only played xmen wolverine, but burnout paradise as well (the latest two PC games i have right now)

I tried need for speed shift on it, and it would run, but crash on the very first thing for the career mode.

I am quite impressed by the capabilities of this chipset.