Hello everyone! I have stopped posting sometime last year due to getting fed up with racial forum post in LYN. But I'm back and with good news on the 360!

Go through this post in Xbox.com for the gory detail in full glory. Look for post from MRCUR.

http://forums.xbox.com/19/13882627/ShowPost.aspx#13882627

Xbox with falcon (65nm mobo) is already in US. Although somewhat in waiting mode. Waiting for stock clearance of 360 with launch mobo. Yet, some people who sent their 360 for repair already get this falcon box returned back.

There is even an info from MRCUR saying that it will be easy to add hdmi to falcon mobo. However there is no detail on how to do this.

I rate this as rumor from trusted source. But it sounds good!

360 with 65nm Falcon mobo has been touted as solution to RROD problem because it eat less power with reduce amount of heat. Meaning it will run quieter and cooler than current 90nm mobo. ( Yeah i chopped that from wikipedia somewhere )

So! more reason to buy Xbox 360. Let say at the end of this year. By that time most probably we can easily get our hand on this Falcon 360. Yeah!!! Amen for that.

Anyway, as a side note. I started a thread here about Xbox 360 support in Malaysia. Which in a hindsight is not a model post (i.e. children please don't do this at home). However it does get some attention from MS Malaysia (or someone that claim to be from MS Malaysia). As a result we get 2008 as some kind of tentative date for Malaysia Xbox 360 release date.

Lets cross our finger and hope that MS will officially release this Falcon 360 here this coming X-MAS season. So that we all can have a save console gaming via Xbox 360 on 2008.

To Microsoft Malaysia : 8 is a good number. Lets crack that egg!

A Big and Long AAAAAAAAMMMMMMMEENNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! for that!!!!!!

That is what I have in mind for MS Malaysia. Release officially in Malaysia, provide support (handle warranty return etc), give us the 3 year warranties for RROD and do all that before 2008 start.

Now we just need to find someone from Microsoft that read LYN forum and prod them here and there with our virtual and proverbial stick. In other words lets get some attention to this thread!

We will have to be confident of ourself first. Microsoft will care if we care. For big company like MS, (imho) it is not just the size of current market. It is also the potential of that market. Think positive.

Alternative to that is to be pessimistic. Now, if I'm Bill Gates and I just read some comment here about Malaysian not buying original games. About Malaysian small quantity of xbox supporter. And all that coming straight from the horse mouth. In this case the horse being malaysian gamers who post in LYN forums. I will not have much confident.

Oh! and about piracy? Since when piracy is solved by not selling and supporting the product? My humble opinion. Piracy is solved by education, affordable price and law enforcement. Not selling and supporting the product might be the cause for piracy in itself. It is like a blanket license to pirate since the original product is scarce and unsupported.

Sooner or later MS will have to support Malaysia. It is better for them and for us Malaysian gamers. that they do it sooner than later.

Food for thought, the pitifull state of Xbox in Malaysia is chicken and egg kind of situation. But for me, I can guarantee that the situation will improve once it is officially supported, well marketed and MS do thing to improve public perception about the box. Look at mobile phone market in Malaysia. Just go to Sungai Wang and see how many people is selling em. Hell, so much people selling. And the magic thing is there are lots of people buying. For a product that should last few years some people are changging it once in three month. Phew! fortunately I'm not one of em.

Meaning, the buying power and wants are there. Only the confident is missing at the moment.

The only valid reason for not supporting Malaysia previously is that MS is bussy in another better/lucrative market. Add to the fact that extending support to Malaysia from Singapore is not that much effort and investment. Duh! surely we all can see that it make sense!

Cheers! I want to give you guys (root) beer for responding to this threat. But alas I don't see the smilies for that.

Yeah, we are NOT COVERED here !!!

MS needs to really really support us. Afterall xbox 360 is damn fragile. Who wants to gamble RM1500? Even if they solve the RRoD, how about scratch disc?

Alternative to that is buying from SG. Good luck silencer. Ah! I really want to know how to get a 360 from SG? Do you pay tax? How much? Or can we just tampal sticker saying "REPAIRED" and try to convince the custom official that it is not brand new.





Lets wait some more. Let's em american be our beta tester.

Just to add fuel to da fire !!!

Xbox Scene : Falcon Xbox360 Motherboard: This Fall, 65nm CPU but still 90nm GPU

Exclusive: What Microsoft's Falcon project is going to mean for when you should buy an Xbox 360

Enjoy!!!

Good to hear some hardware news. Just look at the Xbox forum topics and most of it is software.

The Falcon power consumption (wattage) during game play is even lower than previous version consumption at idle.

Now that is a good news. But I'm personally waiting for the RROD being declared as solved by the general public. MS can say whatever they want.

But if you are in US or other country covered with the 3 years warranty. I don't see any reason not to buy.

In Malaysia, it is a different story. So enjoy it it if you can! For the rest of us Malaysian, better just wait for the GPU to be 65nanometerised and keep sending some subtle message to MS asking them to release it officially here. Those with Jedi power are encouraged to send more than just subtle message.

Cheers!

got another keyword for you guys ...

JASPER

Now this is the ultimate in nanometerization...

Because JASPER is falcon with the 65nm GPU.

Expected August next year. Damn shame because we have to wait that long.

Cheers

Any experience whether Falcon solve RROD or not?