Will Microsoft restyle the Xbox360 in the near future?

[Capeta]

It would've been pretty neat if MS designed the case to be changeable and have aftermarket cases sold as upgrades like in the PC space. I would love to upgrade the case with a nice aluminum SilverStone slim case.

 

[rabidrabbit]

It has the changeable faceplates, it doesn't need a redesign.
A smaller form maybe, though, and internal power supply.
Or faceplates for the power supply

 

[Rangers]

Which would be a internal redesign. Which at this point would be really easy. The internals of the Xbox 360 show a VERY cheaply done design that has come back and haunted MS because they wouldn't put the money on the original design.

Uh it's not really the design per se, it's cheap components.

Besides the whole X-clamp and other issues, which may or may not be the problem.

I recently sent my 360 in for service, and I guess it's stupid to say anything this early, but it's been running like a champ since it came back. I wonder if the Elite epoxy thing is now SOP on repairs as well and if it will fix the problem?

 

[infinity4]

epoxy from what i know is there to prevent modding of 360s because otherwise modders risk damaging whole motherboard

 

[Cheezdoodles]

Which would be a internal redesign. Which at this point would be really easy. The internals of the Xbox 360 show a VERY cheaply done design that has come back and haunted MS because they wouldn't put the money on the original design.

Cheap components. Design itself isn't cheap. Wii is a cheap design.

 

[Todd33]

Uh it's not really the design per se, it's cheap components.

Cheap components. Design itself isn't cheap. Wii is a cheap design.

I think by design he means design of the motherboard layout, chip cooling, etc. I suppose the components are cheap too (caps, resistors, etc,), but are there expensive alternatives?

 

[AlNom]

I suppose the components are cheap too (caps, resistors, etc,), but are there expensive alternatives?

There are different types of capacitors that each have differing qualities - stability with temperature, quality of materials, degradation over time, leakage characteristics, breakdown voltage.. Electrolytic caps are favoured in computers and relatively compact electrical devices as they provide a fairly high capacitance given their size, and there are different types of electrolytic caps also. Economically, you'd choose caps that are 'good enough' for the purpose in mind. PF correction, smoothing out discharge/charge with a long time constant. Temperature tolerance can certainly be an issue.

Resistors themselves have particular power/temperature allowances before they become useless or out of spec.