I still have my original 2001 Xbox working as good as new. The original Xbox went through 3-4 different drive DVD upgrades, originaly Thompson that only read commercial DVD's and some CDRW. later they had Philips and Samsung I think. WHich could read DVD recordable disks. I bought a second Xbox on Ebay so I could use XB Media Center with regular DVD media.
BTW I recall the Xbox being bullet prood, Some Student got upset with people playing the xbox, got a gun stormed into the room in which they were playing, and shot the Xbox, which continued working with no consequence.
Don't know why so many people are quick to bash the system, which is very reliable, has better specs and features than the other systems, and only suffered from being large and heavy. But no Larger then the New PS3. No surprise there since like the Xbox the PS3 has Nvidia graphics hardware, Hard drive, DVD rom. networking and HDTV support etc, etc.
Many of which were a first on the Xbox console.
BTW I recall the Xbox being bullet prood, Some Student got upset with people playing the xbox, got a gun stormed into the room in which they were playing, and shot the Xbox, which continued working with no consequence.
Don't know why so many people are quick to bash the system, which is very reliable, has better specs and features than the other systems, and only suffered from being large and heavy. But no Larger then the New PS3. No surprise there since like the Xbox the PS3 has Nvidia graphics hardware, Hard drive, DVD rom. networking and HDTV support etc, etc.
Many of which were a first on the Xbox console.