[quote name='BigMan']The whole Thompson drive issue is the longest running myth on these boards.
Myth: MS no longer makes Xbox's with Thompson drives.
Fact: Many brand new Xbox's are made with the Thompson drive.
Myth: All Thompson drives are inferior and cause problems.
Fact: The very first revision of the Thompson drives used at one plant were less reliable and got out of alignment but since that time, new revs of the Thompson drive have corrected (or simply did not have) that problem.
Myth: Samsungs drives are always superior.
Fact: All DVDs included with Xbox have similar MTBF rate and no real evidence has contradicted that since the early Xbox releases (see prev myth).
So just relax. The new Thompson drives are fine.
And yes some of the halo edition xboxs do have thomson drives.[/quote]
here I'll try my ver:
Myth: their is no diff between the 2 drives.
Fact: Thompson drives simply refuse to read cdr's, where as Samsung drives can. I know cause I had once owned a thompson XBox, then traded it anyway for a newer samsung one. Where as my cousin bought a newer thompson xbox (xmas season), it too did not read CD-R's, he exchanged it for a samsung one and everything is cool.
yes some of the halo edition xboxs do have thomson drives.
no way to know till they come out, so why in the hell did you state it like it's fact?