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More about Xbox 360 Elite: no 65nm, DVD drive, IPTV
>> Gizmondo posted an interview with Albert Penello (Director of Global Marketing for Microsoft's Xbox 360) with more details about the Xbox 360 Elite:
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* Gizmodo: Will there be a new processor inside the Xbox 360 Elite, perhaps one using a cooler-running, 65nm process?
* Penello: It's interesting. There's been a lot of questions about that, and the answer is, the insides of the boxes change all the time. There's nothing specific going on with Elite regarding anything like that. We make changes to the boxes all the time, just as part of cost reductions and continuous improvement, so no, there's nothing really interesting to talk about there.
* Gizmodo: There was talk about how the processor was going to be cooler-running and perhaps quieter.
* Penello: No. we haven't announced anything like that.
* Gizmodo: You can't give us any sort of information about the future of the processor and how that might be upgraded?
* Penello: Again, the thing about that is, it's not going to really be particularly newsworthy. Components have changed since we launched it and will continue to change. There's no upgrade of the processor. We might be doing cost reductions and things like that, but it's nothing that the consumers will ever notice.
* Gizmodo: You did change the DVD drive, didn't you, so that it's quieter?
* Penello: What's interesting is, that was a rumor that was going around that's also interesting in its propagation, but the reality is, we have several different manufacturers of DVD drives, and people claim that they believe that they've heard ones that are quieter, which is interesting, because I don't really know anything about that.
* Gizmodo: So one week you might have one in there, and then another week you might have another, depending on availability?
* Penello: We have a lot of different components in the box. There are 1500 different components in the box. I'm really not trying to be flippant, because a lot of the sites are sort of claiming that there is these specific components that are going to do specific things, and the truth is, there are infinite numbers of combinations of the console in terms of components and who they're manufactured by.
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Read the whole interview on gizmodo.com
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