The New Xbox Experience (NXE) was launched on November 19th, 2008. Is it better or worse than the previous Dashboard? Well, there are more things to consider than one. For example, it's not just a new Dashboard version. In addition to the new Dashboard you can for example choose downloadable content via the Internet using a web browser on a computer on the xbox.com website for your Gamertag and start downloading the content when you turn on your Xbox 360 console. The NXE has avatars which you can see on your Dashboard but also on your xbox.com Gamertag profile and you can also show your avatar on your website (if supported by the website you are using). The good or bad side with avatars is that at least the default ones look cute and if you are not in to that kind of thing, then you just have to live with it. Also, the NXE takes so much megabytes that a 64 MB Memory Unit is not enough anymore, so you can't play with your Xbox 360 online anymore as happened to one of my game friends, so now he can't use his Xbox Live Gold account and I think he should get some sort of refund for the time he can't use his console. And I should get a refund for all the old themes I have bought as I can't see the images from top to bottom because of some kind of floor under the avatar. I happen to like usability, efficiency and speed. But the Marketplace works much slower than before, because for example for every game the console first downloads screenshots, game description, and content descriptions. Because I like to manually choose when and what I want to download, this considerably slows me down. All I would like to see is the "All Downloads" button for a game and then select what I want to download. Or better yet, just a list (without any pictures) for all the latest content, so I could choose what to download. One of new features in NXE is that you can copy your game disc to your hard drive (you still need your game disc to be able to use your game), but the biggest hard drive I know available is only the official 120 GB hard drive and because one game usually has approximately 6 GB of data and I already had game content including maps worth of 13 GB I can only install about 16 games when I leave some room for new game maps. So, the Marketplace looks better but it's no longer usable and you lose money if you already don't have a hard drive or big enough memory unit because you have to buy one and you can't play online anymore without one. I don't like these kind of updates as this is something Microsoft didn't warn the users beforehand, so when they were deciding which game console to purchase they could have calculated how much it will cost to use an Xbox 360 compared to other game consoles. I don't mind getting the old Dashboard back, but I do like installing games to my hard drive even though my Xbox 360 is still too loud compared to my PlayStation 3 and Nintendo Wii.