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This week I finally got hold of an XBOX 360 Premium for $399 from my local Walmart.  The first thing I then purchased was a Wireless card ($99) for it and GRAW – Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter ($60).

Good things:

• Game quality
• Media Center integration
• XBOX Live downloads

Bad things:

• Noisy when playing games (gets hot)
• Dashboard really needs to have a download queue
• Dashboard really needs to retry connecting when a download fails
• Doesn’t play AAC through Media Center
• Doesn’t play DIVX through Media Center
• Game instability – GRAW locked up at the end of the training session, so I had to do it again although no problems since
• Games are so focused on HDTV that they don’t work well on a regular TV – hard to read text on the screen

Will update as I find other things.