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ggrobot · Elite Member Joined: 28 May 2004 Posts: 53596

ing high school or college and provide a .edu email address or valid student ID card to verify that fact.

ships that are key to your life. And starting May 22nd for a limited time, we are bringing students a very special offer.

When students buy a Windows 7 PC over $699, they will receive a FREE Xbox 360*. a

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Ozieo · Elite Member Joined: 02 Jul 2004 Posts: 648

great way to get rid of their overheating chipsets.

Koogle · Elite Member Joined: 08 Jun 2004 Posts: 1362

What the heck kind of deal is that?

They should be paying people to use shitty vis7a Razz

It's worthless compared to the cheap labor manufacturing of an xblock sos chipset .

Honestly though they ain't really giving shit away its just bribery! And its not really costing them at all, they'll make even more money on those who spend on its console platform.

Csimbi · Posted: Sat May 21, 2011 6:12 pm Post subject:

They want to flush the current Xbox from the market.
Probably as a preparation for Xbox 2.

tride · Elite Member Joined: 27 Feb 2010 Posts: 566

Yea, that true i think too... they just try to sell whatever they can before the new GEN comes...

sikapossu · Junior Member Joined: 26 Jul 2004 Posts: 218

they just released kinetic so dont wait new xbox coming near future

Tom · Elite Member Joined: 07 Jun 2004 Posts: 4289

They're giving away overpriced shit 4GB units. Who gives a shit. Probably because they are so badly overstocked with them.

Kompressor · Posted: Sat May 21, 2011 11:26 pm Post subject:

Wow, what's with all of the negativity? All new computers come with Windows 7 by default, so if you are already going to buy a computer, why not get a free Xbox with it? If you hate it so much and don't want it, give it away.

As for Windows 7 64-bit, it is the best version to date and you can run more than 4GB ram. Actually, 64-bit XP was the best but very little software was designed for it, but what can you do. Your only other option is to buy a crap Mac or run Linux, but again, not allot of games and software for it.

Tom · Elite Member Joined: 07 Jun 2004 Posts: 4289

First off I am in Canada, this is only applicable to the USA. Second of all it is the low end model which you can't do jack shit on and will end up costing you down the road as you workaround all it's lacking features. When they had a sale on these at Walmart they just sat on the shelf and never moved. Windows 7 is a fine OS as was Vista 64 that was great after SP1. I see no going back to XP old crap. If you have an old piece of crap computer you run XP.

Isn't MS supposed to be pushing gaming on PC? Yet here they are giving away a console with a PC purchase?

Kompressor · Posted: Sun May 22, 2011 12:16 am Post subject:

Correct me if I'm wrong, but as far as I know there is only one Xbox 360 model which is the new Xbox 360 S, but you can buy it with or without or a hard drive. The one you're getting for free does not come with a hard drive but you can add one at any time. And even though it doesn't come with a hard drive it does have 4GB of internal memory which acts like a hard drive so you can still use Xbox Live and and do everything any other console can do but of course you are limited to 4GB instead of 250GB.

An Xbox 360 with a 250 GB hard drive retails for $299.99, without a hard drive it's $199.99, and if you want to buy a hard drive is $99.99.

gx-x · Elite Member Joined: 02 Jul 2007 Posts: 2652

I am curios, what's wrong with 4gb xblock? I haven't really looked into differences between versions. What makes it crap compared to better versions? I can get one for like ~70e and was thinking about it (cheap way to play driving games like forza). Is it really that unusable or what?

sorry for OT.

edit: and oh yea, kudos to m$ for promoting PC gaming /sarcasm

darknothing · Posted: Tue May 24, 2011 2:59 am Post subject:

Tom nailed it, thats the problem with this promo.
Push PC gaming.. yet they release a console with the pc.
hmmm i wonder what platform they will get games for...

Koogle · Elite Member Joined: 08 Jun 2004 Posts: 1362