Lets end the Xbox Lite has no HD rumors

**Cyclone** · 05-11-2003

I've noticed a lot of people have been saying that the Xbox lite will not have a hd to help cut down on size. Well, although I don't know anything about the Xbox Lite right now, I know that they won't do away with the hd since most games need it. So here is what I think they'll do.

If anything they'll switch to using a laptop hard drive.
A laptop hard drive is roughly half the size of a normal hd. ~grabs hd out of his laptop and takes pic~

Here is a standard size hard drive and a laptop hard drive on top of it for a size compairison.

If you know what the inside of the xbox looks like, you know that the hard drive takes up quite a bit of space. If they went to using a laptop hard drive, it would cut down on space in the Xbox a lot. They could mount the laptop hd under the cdrom in the current Xbox and cut down it's size by over half to about the size of a Dreamcast.

To give a better idea of laptop hd and normal, the laptop hd is 2.5inch wide and the normal is 3.5 I believe. Also, normal is about an inch tall while laptop is about half an inch. Lenth, normal hd is amost 2 inchs longer.

Another down side about laptop hard drives is they're slower. However, this will hardly be noticeable in the Xbox since music and game saves will load pretty fast anyways since they're pretty small in size. Also game content and loading should still be pretty fast. Also laptop hard drives are quieter and use less energy.
Sorry about the bad picture quality, trying to keep these pictures forum friendly.

Discuss what you think :P

**Kortiz** · 05-11-2003

haha, good job!!

**l Maximus l** · 05-11-2003

hehe...I think I met someone that has more time on their hand than me

**bretman1234** · 05-11-2003

i noticed u have a vanilla coke can in your trash. I LOVE VANILLA COKE!!!! IT ROX!!!

**Kortiz** · 05-11-2003

what ya mean maximus?

maybe he has a lot of spare parts? not hard to take pictures.

load them up and post on the forums. besides it is sunday, and raining heavily in most parts of the us....

the raining heavily in most parts of the us comment is just from looking outside my window....so i really dont know what im talking about on that part.

either way it isnt hard to do....what ya smokin.

**kornavs19** · 05-11-2003

haha..U looked in his trash..lol
yes, vanilla coke is quite good..

My friend has a labtop,idk if its just that it sux or that there all like that but, u gotta b in a certain spot or u dont get connection or service or it slows down, something lke that...If thats true then that would stink if it got put in the xbox, if not then cool...

**Kortiz** · 05-11-2003

i think his laptop just sucks.

**Shadow20002** · 05-11-2003

Maybe it's true....anyway, wait until E3, this gonna tell us exactly how XL wil be.

**Kortiz** · 05-11-2003

Hopefully MS can make some profit by this change.

**kornavs19** · 05-11-2003

Originally posted by Fosho
i think his laptop just sucks.

LMAO, yea thats what i was kinda leaning towards..

**ARONO129** · 05-11-2003

Originally posted by Maximus-XBA
hehe...I think I met someone that has more time on their hand than me

Actually I switched shifts at my job. I only work 7 days out of 14. Just had 8 days off, went back to work Sat and Sun and if I use 2 holiday days I may have another 7 days off. Downside is eating jail food and g-d knows what in the meatloaf or pudding. I have a lot of gas for the last 12 years.

**canadianboi3** · 05-11-2003

Originally posted by ARONO129

Actually I switched shifts at my job. I only work 7 days out of 14. Just had 8 days off, went back to work Sat and Sun and if I use 2 holiday days I may have another 7 days off. Downside is eating jail food and g-d knows what in the meatloaf or pudding. I have a lot of gas for the last 12 years.

That has what to do with anything now?

**ARONO129** · 05-12-2003

Originally posted by canadianboi3

That has what to do with anything now?

Ummm. Follow up the thread a bit to where Max talks about have lots of time off. Since Max mentions time off I didn't think it was inappropriate to follow up by mentioning my time off. That can and does happen to many threads where it goes off and then on topic.

Sorry for the confusion. Now back to the topic of this thread...

**l Maximus l** · 05-12-2003

hehe...I love stirring up the pot

**NINE BREAKER** · 05-12-2003

he..he.. I love stirring POT too..

*re-reads Maximus's thread*

oh never mind.

Good point about the laptop hd though.

**Cyclone** · 05-12-2003

Originally posted by NINE BREAKER
he..he.. I love stirring POT too..
*re-reads Maximus's thread*

oh never mind.

Good point about the laptop hd though.

Well it kinda suprised me that either nobody thought of this before or didn't bother posting it. I believe that the people that actually believe that the Xbox Lite isn't going to have a hd have little or no computer knowledge at all. So hopefully by this post it can clear up up some confusion since it's what I believe will happen. Although there is still a possibility that they could use the same hard drive and have the system still be about the size of the Gamecube. Well, maybe about the size of the Panasonic Gamecube since I believe it's a little larger since it can use standard DVD media.

**Hugh_Jass** · 05-12-2003

If the iPod can contain a hard drive then anything can.

**WynnFire** · 05-12-2003

I don't think they will use a laptop hard drive. If anyone remembers, last year an article came out saying that Seagate was working on smaller/faster hard drives for use in Consumer Products.

U Series X designed using Six Sigma to meet requirements of game consoles, printers, copiers and other cost-sensitive applications

http://www.seagate.com/cda/newsinfo/...le/0,1121,1452