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I'm about order another 360 for my son, I'm not sure what to go for out of the 3 main options.

1. Premium Pro
2. Halo Edition
3. Elite


I can get the Pro for £199.99 inc delivery which is tempting at that price, my son wants the Halo or Elite because of the color (lol). The best deal I've seen on these are £275 & £295 inc delivery are these worth these extra £££ bearing in mind he won't be playing online, that being said I might but only for Halo 3.

I've not kept up to date with the internal changes of the 360 since I sold mine, are all the models the same internally now? I know I read they had made improvements to deal with them displaying 3 red lights.
 
I've just worked out this fact - if you buy the Xbox 360 Halo 3 SE console, it will cost you another £124.99 to get the equivalent spec that the Elite has. It would be a very clear choice in my mind.
 
The difference between the Premium and Elite is the 120GB HDD and included HDMI cables. The difference in price in the shops is £100 but the 120GB HDD is about £130 and the HDMI cables are about £30. Do you get some free games with the Premium Pro to offset the cost?
 
the £199.99 is Premium console only inc delivery so is it worth the extra £100 for the Elite?

Halo is out then
 
It depends - do you think in the future you will take advantage of Microsoft's Online Movie/Video Rental store? It would be handy to have a big drive for that.
 
IMO it would be good idea to look at the game packages with each variation, if you could pick up an Elite and say 3 games for an extra £50 it would offset the price against the Premiium Pro. Having said that I would expect that you will get a much better package deal with the Premium.

When I got my Premium 6 months ago I got GoW, GRAW 2 and Crackdown for only an extra £50 over the system by itself so it well worth looking at what deals you can get with console and games.
 
only bundle that I've seen worth buying was the premium pro + Halo 3 & PGR4 for £259.99inc
 
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Right I was just about to get the Premium Pro but have now read that only the Halo LE & Elite have the revised internals to help with the heat issue...

Anyone know how true this is?

Really need to make a decision asap as I need it here by next weekend for my son's birthday.

Thanks
Shiner
 
where is everyone getting this premium price of 199? Cheapest I've seen it as the list price of 249, on most of the major retailers and etailers.
 
The latest standard consoles will also have the revised internals but I wouldn't worry too much as you get a 3 year warranty for the traditional 3 Red Quadrant malfunctions caused by overheating.

None of the consoles have a smaller fabrication process for the GPU yet, which is what causes most of the heat issues anyway.
 
Just to update I ordered and received my new 360 V2, it arrived the next day after ordering after 5pm so was very happy.

Looks good over HDMI, not as quiet as my previous 360 but glad I have one again.
 
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