Everything is Rubbish

I got one of these beauties two weeks ago, and it’s a noisy bugger.  An energy hog too.

Before I bought the xbox 360, I’d been telling various friends about the fact that I own an Apple TV and that I re-encode my DVDs so that I can watch them on it.  Pretty often they’d turn round to me and ask “what’s the point?  If you’re going to be re-encoding them to watch on a device like that, why not get an xbox?  Then you’ll be able to play games too!”.

My response to those friends then was that firstly I wanted something very simple to use that I didn’mt have to think about, and secondly that the AppleTV was silent.  As far as I was aware, the xbox 360 wasn’t.

Still, a couple of weeks ago I decided that I wanted to be able to play on some of these newfangled games that all the kids are going on about nowadays.  So, I caved and bought an xbox 360.  When I got it home I excitedly got it out of the box, plugged it in and was greeted with the sound of a tornado in my living room.

To say I was a little bit miffed was an understatement.  Whilst I’d been made aware by my friends that they did make some noise I’d not been prepared for how much.  And this was before I’d even put a disk in the drive!  After I’d started playing a game my brain started to filter out the constant drone of the console, but it was constantly there, causing me a noise fatigue that annoyed me no end.  Turning the console off returned me to blissful silence.

So, there you have it - the xbox 360 elite is a noisy bugger.  Good to play games on though.

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