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I'm fixing to trade in my Playstation 2 towards an Xbox this weekend, as I sort of impulse bought a PSTwo at Wal-Mart.

Given that there seems to be a pretty wicked Xbox shortage going on right now, I may have to settle on a refurbished model if I go to a place like EBGames or Babbage's. This might be nice in the sense that it's cheaper, and I would probably get a less-than-recent model that could accept a no-solder mod chip. The downside is fairly obvious -- some other jerk may have treated the system like crap. Does the refurbishing actually add to the system's life? The weak link is probably the HDD anyway, and I doubt that they replace that.

Will the EB people humor me if I ask for one that was manufactured in 2003 or later?

 

[cvxfreak]

Bad idea.

 

[Spike]

border, don't go for the refurb units. If the rumour is true, then the Crystal Xbox might be coming in early November. Wait for that one.

refurb = HDD reformat and maybe replace DVD drive with a Thompson one

 

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The Crystal units are nice, but I'm assuming that they are new-model systems (no easy mod chip) and I think MS has announced all that they are going to for this region. The Sports Pack PR went out today, and I think they would have just done a simultaneous announcement if the Crystal ones were in the works.

 

[Suikoguy]

Very Bad Idea, I swear 75% of them come back to the store.
Microsoft seems to just use this "Test Equipment Boot Loader Utility" and assume it works. I know this cause I found the disc left in a refurb xbox. I'm not sure what to do with it, it says its the wrong region for my xbox

 

[Grimlock]

I guess I managed to luck out on my refurb. When I got it home, I found it had a Samsung drive and I just learned recently that it has a Segate HD. Booya.

 

[davis]

my refurbished xbox has worked fine for me samsung drive, got it from EB over a year ago.