After about a month of owning my 360 i was surprised that it wasnt like it was in the past. Over heating and such.

For those of you who are considering a 360 id say get one. Ive had my 360 on for over 10 hours today and the power brick is nothing like my friends were. Microsoft fixed that. Infact it wasnt even hot when i touched it. maybe 70 - 80 degrees F. How ever the 360 does get a bit hot. But nothing like the PS3. But the ps3 has the PSU in it so that will also add heat.

Xbox live compared to PSN. When i play cod4 on live i get full signal. 4 bars. On ps3 id be lucky if i could get past 3 bars. But PSN is free. But 50 dollars a year isnt much at all.

Updates. The speed when i download patches for games are extremley fast compared to patches on PS3. The amount of security sony puts in there patches really isnt necessary. All it does is increase the size of the download.

Graphics. PS3 wins in this one. Games are nice and brighter and tend to run smoother for certain games.

Sometimes when im on the dashboard while a game is loading it will freeze up and ill have to wait maybe 10 seconds for it to unfreeze and continue with loading. On ps3 it doesnt do that. Atleast for me.

The newer 360's have a new GPU heatsink in it. Helping prevent RROD. I hope. Also the new falcon 65nm cpu makes everything run a tad bit faster. I compared with a friends 360.

Overall id rate the 360 (the newer models) a 8.5/10. The one thing i dont like is how you have to buy microsoft points to buy stuff off the store.

If you are thinking about getting one id get it. If you would have no use for it like your friends dont have one or you just would never play it then dont get it. But if you are thinking about it id definitely recommend it.

My gamertag is dz93 btw.