Remember when the Xbox landed? It was the biggest console you'd ever seen. The thing looked like they could build sturdy houses in third world countries out of it. I had always just assumed that it was that big because it had big parts in it, but evidently the size was simply Microsoft showing off its big American penis. A modder has created the Xbox Micro, which makes the Wii look like its King Kong.
The Micro basically has every part of the Xbox crammed deep inside it. You can see some exposed views of it here and also learn about how it was done. It sure makes the original Xbox look like it fell off the ugly tree, hit every branch that it could and then took a swim in a bath of ugly acid before drying off with a towel that made it even uglier. If you attempt to do this at home be forewarned; it took the creators six months to put this together and the machine doesn't run particularly cool, as one would expect. If you head over to the creators post you can find your way to a few other interesting Xbox mods too.
(Update: As a few people in the comments pointed out, there's no disc drive. Games are stored on a hard drive. Still awesome.)
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7:00 PM on 08.16.2009
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Well, I'm guessing that's why MS didn't make it that small.
As for the ugly comment, slimmer and smaller doesn't automatically make something prettier. The original XBox looked much better than the Micro in my opinion. But I acknowledge that the Micro was made for mass production for the market.
Either way, the heat is definitely a big reason why they made the Xbox as big as it was.
Still, this thing looks sexy as hell.
It's using a 320 GB HD
And much like the 'Xbox mini' from years past it is sans DVD drive, running on emulation.
/Still sexy as hell and an impressive feat of modding.
Plus, size matters. At least in the US market, where big cars and big burgers sell. Selling a small xbox would have made some Americans think it was underpowered or bad. Hey, that's the way the US market works.
Bingo.
now please get that ugly POS off the front page.
Ayo!
Can it get the Red Ring ?
That looks to be it for USB. It would be really cool if they incorporated the Windows Xbox 360 wireless controller receiver into the design.
If they made the 360 any smaller, it would just overheat and fail that much more frequently.