I Just got mine back and mine is the same too, but the cd drive is different. I read somewhere that they're starting to switch out the inside and keep the same case. i've tested all the usb ports and they work fine. HD DVD player is working. seems good.
yep, the laptop cooler works great. i got a laser thermometer to test the temp, it went from 105 to about 83-87. I was playing need for speed for about 3 hours a night then. on another note, apparantly my xbox shipped out today, so i guess i'm getting a referb. :o(
I have an antec(i think) laptop cooler sitting under mine. It dropped my xbox's temp by 20 degrees. The only thing is that it's usb powered, so you either have to leave it on all the time, or get up and manually turn it off and on. I manually switch mine on, espically during the summer months.
I would but I heard there is no Mckenny repair center, the boxes are sent to the UPS hub in McKenny and then driven to the service center nearby. So who knows where our system ends up, I bet every MS employee is required to have xbox360 bookends.
I hope it works, I shipped mine Thursday and it's supposed to arrive sometime today. RRoD sucks. What's funny is Mckenny is about an hour away from where I live, in fact my boss lives in Mckenny