Just come down in price by $57, looks like they're price-matching a deal on play.com that don't deliver to Australia.
Pricing should be £118.74 after VAT removal + £8.48 Delivery x 1.53 (gbp-aud) = $194.64
4GB Version with Kinect is the same price - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Xbox-360-4GB-Console-Kinect/dp/B003U…
Both deals at the lowest price ever according to camelx3
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and they don't even had the slight decency to solder at least one more gig of ram on it…
Yes because it's all that simple…
thats because they don't want to fragment the platform.
I just looked it up and realised it only as 1Gb of RAM as well as a POWERPC chip. I reckon it would awesome if someone like steam made a Modular PC built for children. Imagine installing your new graphics card/CPU/RAM/PSU the same way someone would insert a nintendo game… If steam coupled this idea with building Steam4Linux they could free both console gamers and PC gamers in one foul swoop and hopefully convert even more people over to Ubuntu/Linux Mint.
No deal. $259 click and collect at Dick Smith including Kinect and pay with the gift cards that you got 10% off.
Yeah I'll delete that last deal, but the first one works out considerably cheaper still. Thanks
I think it was a 4gb console..
Plus 2 games & 3mths live
http://dicksmith.com.au/product/YG5589/xbox-360-250gb-kinect…
or an extra $40 gets you Halo Reach & Fable 3
http://dicksmith.com.au/product/YG5588/xbox-360-250gb-consol…
The Dick Smith $259 deal with a Kinect is a good deal if your local store has stock.
Only if you find any stock!
better to buy local for warranty
these go faulty so frequently :(
I've had my original (non slim) 360 for about 3 and a half years now, and it hasn't RROD'd. I thought the faults had been fixed in the newer batches.
my five year old falcon karked it recently :(
Xbox 360 had the highest failure rate of any console ever by a huge margin.
Was reported in 2009 that the failure rate was 54%.
Also 41% of people that got a 2nd console had that fail too.
http://au.gamespot.com/news/xbox-360-failure-rate-542-621559…
There is no doubt they have improved the 360 with newer revisions, but it's unknown how reliable the new ones are long term yet.
Bill Gates sure does know how make a killing off the average guy… first he makes it unrealistic to get xbox gold any other way than a 12 month term and then lets your console fail almost making you buy another one.
Its a motehrboard, GFX, RAM, etc
All electronics are prone to fail eventually
Everyone is free to buy wherever they want , im just giving advice "For $50, better to buy locally for warranty"
You also find that most people pay extra $$ for extended warranty too and for expensive electronics and computer/gaming devices, warranty is essential
This:
these go faulty so frequently :(
doesn't equal this:
All electronics are prone to fail eventually
you still need to send them to sinapore as WD owns Hitachi's 2.5" drive division
Has anyone figured out a way to turn these into a good media centre yet?
It's only possible in theory, impossible in reality.
just use "Plex" on your tv apps or an old laptop
Yep, using old laptop now.
Too many restrictions to run as a media centre.
Transcoding is a terrible solution imo.
works well enough as a media centre extender - assuming you have another PC to act as the actual media centre
I have one but it still isn't great. Lots of files types it won't play. Need a gold membership to use the Youtube app.
Any potential issues buying a uk Xbox and using it in Australia?? Eg are they the same region games as here for the machine? Any membership issues etc? Any help would be appreciated people!
Games will work the same, you just need an adaptor for the plug ($2 or so from ebay)
$1 from eBay http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/UK-US-EU-Universal-AU-AC-Power-Pl…
Hey, this is Ozbargain after all! :-P
It still boggles my mind that the chinese can send an item for $1 thousands of kilometres across the globe and still turn a profit.
Me too. Considering a stamp to just send a letter costs $0.60 here, and that's without the envelope or the time and effort to do all that's involved with that as well. And I've ordered about 4-5 over the years and none have failed at all so far.
280 million reasons why 60c is still a good margin
http://auspost.com.au/about-us/australia-post-increases-prof…
Except, 60c is not "a good margin"
Regulated mail business losses widen to $148 million on the back of mail volume and revenue declines.
you just need an adaptor for the plug
or a power lead
Aside from the plug, the DVD region will be that of the UK.
Xbox is region free DVD player - I must know cause have one from Europe at home and it plays everything I feed it.
which xbox version is hackable to play downloaded games?
Lol… google and youtube are your friend, don't be shy
confuse so many versions.. but the latest one is 4GB right? i dont want end up with non hacked xbox.
Why are people getting negged? I get that it's illegal and that's bad but I bet most of the people that are negging also download from Russia or America through a VPN or other such method. I believe in play before you pay, I don't pay for games I won't replay.
really illegal? but why so many mod websites put their address and abn? (like the above from hesokay)
are they not afraid police will come?
i think its not illegal to mod so you can run backup games, aslong you buy those games.
same like copy cd audio for personal backup.
so, yes, why neg?
7 years on…they must be making a KILLER profit!