I can understand the proprietary power supply thing from two standpoints. One, of course, is, as you say, money--that's a high profit margin item when it needs to be replaced. Two - and in the hardware manufacturer's defense - they're responsible for replacing a system in warranty, and with people plugging in who knows what (in theory) that can cause all kinds of problems, it's not worth the potential hassle to please a select few people. Things like the power supplies are the least of our worries.

Anyway, as always, if you want a "universal" system, the PC has been and will likely always be the way to go. Another strength of the PC is that's it's mostly open, which is also it's biggest downside (from a stability/compatibility standpoint, i.e., you can sometimes do too much to it and cause unintended conflicts).

By the way, that 20GB Xbox 360 that was sent to me (bare bones) by accident is a three ringer, so it joins my other three ringer in limbo. So two working 360's in my house and two non-working ones.

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