xbox for online power and connectivity to windows?

The Xbox 360 can do squat with windows, unless you have a media centre edition, and then the possibilities are only limited to mp3's videos's at the most. The fact that the 360 did not ship with some form of embedded WinXP MCE on it is by sheer virtue of the fact that MS doesnt want people to go so far and possibly get to hack the 360 and unlock win XP. Thats why we have linux.

The xbox may have the No1. online gaming service out of the bunch but remember, it is the only one that has an online gaming service. Considering you have to pay upwards of RM 300 per year to actually play games on the damn thing, not to mention putting up with some prissy and annoying Americans shouting profanity at you through your headset.

You may not have to pay to access xbox live, but thats only for limited use, such as dl-ing trailers and demos,(on to your 20gig HDD of which only 13GB is accessable, and by the time you dl some trailers (which are in WMV-9 HD format, DRM to the max) your HDD is full already). The fact that you cannot transfer these demos and trailers to another xbox or PC or ipod is the worrying thing.