Actually, the Core was made as a ripped down premium. Then the elite was made with a new motherboard design for improvements. After all of the defects and returns on premiums, they decided to use the elite motherboard/cpu in the premiums. That is why the new premiums have zephyr on the side of the box (motherboard name) and soon to be the Falcon (65nm chip). I think it was just easier for MS to use the elite mobo in premiums to help stop the RROD problem as a simple quick fix.Phazevariance

Where would it say zephyr on the side of the box?

You just need WMP11 now. You don't need the media center extender, which requires awindows media center enabled PCanymore,

You should end up with I think around 13GB? I can't remember exactly.

cspiffo

Whats a WMP11? I already hooked up the media center extender thing, it was pretty easy. But is it free and it the WMP11 basically the same thing?

No, but I just thought it was odd that you can't open it when there is a game in but yo ucan open ip when ther isnt a game in.

Here are two more questions- Is media center extender thing free?

How do you delete the 5 minute video microsoft gives you on your hard drive. How much harddrive should you end up with when you deleted all the junk?