Well after months of toddling along offline with a banned 360, I finally bought myself a new Xbox 360 Elite and a copy of Halo Limited Edition on Wednesday morning. The deal cost me £314.99, so only £15 ontop of the Elites RRP for Halo! So far its alot quieter than my premium and it looks great, plus the controller is awesome, because its new, it feels better than my smoothed white premium wireless controller. Below is the two beauties in my TV unit:

I've gotta wait for the transfer cable before I can trade my premium's HDD in for £25 towards a new game (dunno what one yet, possible Call of Duty 4). I also bought some new speakers, which appear below:

They're Logitech X-530 speakers and the first thing I tested was Halo 3's first level, the first grenade explosion was where the real difference occured, the bass. I've got a 5.1 system on my PC but the bass on it is nowhere near the level of awesomeness with these speakers. Saving Private Ryan was watched too to justify the speakers further, such an amazing movie with such amazing sound effects. I then played Call of Duty 4 beta and I couldn't believe how much better it felt. It was like going from Standard Def gaming to HD gaming, the difference was so big. I'm looking forward to all the new games even more now, especially Kane & Lynch for that 'Heat' inspired bank robbery scene.

Next I think I'll upgrade my PC and get rid of the 5.1 for a decent 2.1 system and finally get a widescreen monitor. :)