Yes, I am a little bit late to the party on this one. This is almost a retro
unboxing at this point, but big thanks to Microsoft Hardware for making this
particular unboxing possible. And I will be unboxing the Xbox 360 special
edition, which comes with Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Conviction, a couple
controllers, and a 250 gig hard drive.
So, the first thing we're going to do is figure out how the box opens. There
appears to be a seal here. All right.
I'm just going to go ahead and find a screwdriver. I lost my unboxing knife
again. So, there we are. Jump in. Well,
I'll do just that. Actually, you know what? Let's have a look at the outside of the box and see if Microsoft has to
say anything for themselves about this particular piece of kit. Although, I
think everyone pretty much knows what an Xbox 360 is all about at this point in
time. Contents: 250 gig hard drive, two wireless controllers, full version of
the game, black headset, composite AV cable, standard definition, and an
Ethernet cable. Okay,
there's a quick start guide. Says start here. Shows you how to plug the Xbox 360
in. Shows you how to put batteries in the controllers.
Okay. Shows you how to put a game disc in. Very nice.
Opening it up further, we see the Xbox
360 itself, including a little ad for Xbox Live.
Xbox Lives bring more brings more of the entertainment you love right to your
living room with thousands of HD movies, TV episodes, free game demos, and game
add-ons like songs, characters, and levels. Plus, you can connect and play with friends wherever they happen to be.
The fun never ends. Connect today. It's free. The Xbox Live Gold membership,
however, does cost money. Okay, it also has a little ad for the
wireless dong dongle that allows you to
use your Xbox 360 wirelessly rather than
using Ethernet. So, here's the unit itself, which we will look at in a
moment. All right, explore your Xbox 360 manual and then care for your Xbox 360
warranty. Okay, documentation. Very fun stuff. And
let's Oops. Interesting. Oh, there's the
game. So, there's a copy of Splinter Cell Conviction here
and some accessories. So, the first thing we see here is a
power brick. Very large power brick, but
that's to be expected. It's a very powerful piece of hardware. It's got
some cooling vents on it. Very shiny plastic. There's power plug for the
wall, power plug for the back of the Xbox 360.
All right. And then we have the power plug that goes in to the back of that
power brick.
There you go. Just like that. Next, we have an Xbox 360 controller.
And it comes with batteries. Look at that. Duracell batteries even.
Like, who does that? Who includes high quality batteries with battery operated
hardware these days? Nobody. That's who. Check that out. I'm half expecting them
to be like expired or something. Hold on. Let's see.
Oh, they are 2009 11. So, okay. Well,
they tried. Um, next we've got
a H. What is this? Next, we've got Oh,
okay. So, there's the AV cable. So, that goes into the back of the Xbox. You can
see there's only a couple pins actually being used by this particular one. And I
would definitely recommend with a high def console like this using a proper
highdefin cable. I mean, they're not expensive.
You can buy them on NCIX for just a couple bucks for an HDMI cable. So, I
wouldn't worry too much about it. Let's see if our next set of batteries here is
expired. Yeah, these were at the same time. You know what? Expired batteries will probably still work. It's not like
they're going to blow up. They just probably won't last as long. Although
what I really recommend for control basically anything that takes doubleA's
is getting yourself some Sano analoop batteries. They're really not expensive
when you add up how many times they recharge, how long the battery life
lasts, and how many disposable batteries you don't have to buy when you go with
the Sanua Loops. Comes with a pretty quality looking Ethernet cable with
gold-plated connectors. Looks like about a 6 ft cable. All right. And next we've
got the headset that is included.
So it's got one ear here. You got your microphone there. And then you have a
connector that plugs into the bottom of your
controller. Okay. Two wireless
controllers included with this one. That's pretty handy because a console is
not nearly as much fun if you can't play headto-head with your friends. And let's
have a look at the unit itself. So on the side here we have our ventilation
holes which are going to allow natural convection to cool the unit. So you can
see air will be just drawn by the heat
rising through the unit through these bottom holes and then it will be
expelled out the top out the other more different top and finally out the third
top of the console. At the back here you
can see our output options and input. So we have one USB cable here. We have our
Ethernet here. We've got HDMI out here. That is definitely the one I would
recommend using. And finally, we have our AV out right here. We've got a
couple of cooling fans at the back. So, those are for your less natural convection, and those are going to be
allowing you to pull air into all of those perforations and blow them out the
back of the unit. Finally, we have the power supply that plugs in right here.
So, that's going to distribute power to all the various parts, including the CPU
and the GPU, that are going to power your favorite games. Here we have slots
for memory cards. We have an infrared receiver. And we have the
Here we go. Optical drive, which is where you put your games, including, if
I can get it. Yeah, there we go. An eject button right there. Power buttons
here. And last but not least, we've got a couple USB ports in the front. So,
thank you for checking out my unboxing. And really, actually, it's my first
close look at an Xbox 360. I'm not much of a console guy normally, so I'm
usually gaming on my PC. But now that I've got my hands on this guy, I'll have
to give it a shot. Let you guys know how it goes. Don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech for more unboxings, reviews,
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