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yes I am a little bit late to the party on this one this is almost a retro unboxing at this point but big thanks to Microsoft hardware for making this particular unboxing possible and I will be unboxing the Xbox 360 special edition which comes with Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Conviction a couple of controllers and the 250 gig hard drive so the first thing we're going to do is figure out how the box opens there appears to be a seal here go ahead and find a screw driver I lost my unboxing knife again so jump in well I'll do just that the box and see if Microsoft has to say anything for themselves about this particular piece of kit although I think everyone pretty much knows what an Xbox 360 is all about at this point in time contents 250 gig hard drive two wireless controllers full version of the game black headset compass at AV cable standard definition and an Ethernet cable there's a QuickStart guide says start here shows you how to plug the Xbox 360 in it shows you how to put batteries in the controllers okay shows you how to put a game disc in very nice opening it up further we see the Xbox 360 itself including a little ad for Xbox Live Xbox Live spring more brings more of the entertainment you love right to your living room with thousands of HD movies TV episodes free game demos and game add-ons like songs characters and levels plus you can connect and play with friends wherever they happen to be the fun never ends Connect today it's free the Xbox Live Gold membership however does cost money ok it also has a little add for the wireless song our dongle that allows you to use your xbox 360 or wirelessly rather than using Ethernet so here's the unit at soft which we will look at in a moment alright explore your Xbox 360 manual and then care for your Xbox 360 warranty ok documentation very fun stuff analyst interesting there's the game so there's a copy of Splinter Cell Conviction here and some accessories so the first thing we see here is a power brick very large power brick but that's to be expected it's a very powerful piece of hardware got some cooling vents on it big shiny plastic power plug for the wall power plug for the back of the Xbox 360 alright and then we have these power plugs that goes in to the back of that power brick there you go just like that next you have an Xbox 360 controller and it comes with batteries look at that Duracell batteries even like who does that who includes high quality batteries with battery operated hardware these days nobody that's who check that out I'm half expecting them to be like expired or something hold on let's see oh they are 2009-11 so ok well they tried Wow next we've caught a hmm what is this next we've got okay so there's the AV cable so that goes into the back of the Xbox you can see there's only a couple pins actually being used by this particular one I would definitely recommend with a high def console like this using a proper high definition cable I mean they're not expensive you can buy them on NCIX for just a couple bucks for an HDMI cable so I wouldn't worry too much about it let's see if our next set of batteries here has expired yet these are roughly the same time you know what expired batteries will probably still work it's not like they're gonna blow up they just probably won't last as long although what I really recommend for basically anything that takes double A's is getting yourself some sanyo eneloop batteries they're really not expensive when you add up how many times they recharge how long the battery life lasts and how many disposable batteries you don't have to buy when you go with these sanyo eneloop comes with a pretty quality looking ethernet cable with gold-plated connectors looks like about a six foot cable alright and next we've got the headset that is included so it's got one year here you got your microphone there and then you have a connector that plugs into the bottom of your controller alright two wireless controllers included with this one that's pretty handy because a console is not nearly as much fun if you can't really head-to-head with your friends and let's have a look at the unit itself so on the side here we have our ventilation holes which are going to allow natural convection to cool the unit so you can see air will be just drawn by the heat rising through the unit through these bottom holes and then it will be expelled at the top out the other more different top and finally out the third top of the console at the back here you can see our output options and input so we have one USB cable here we have our Ethernet here we've got HDMI out here that is definitely the one I would recommend using and finally we have our AV out right here we've got a couple of cooling fans at the back so those are for your less natural conduction and those are going to be allowing you to pull air into all of those perforations and blow them out the back of the unit finally we have the power supply that plugs in right here so that's going to distribute power to all the various parts including the CPU and the GPU that are going to power your favorite games here we have slots for memory cards we have an infrared receiver and we have the here we go optical drive which is where you put your games including if I can get it yeah there we go an eject button right there power buttons here and last but not least we've got a couple of USB ports in the front so thank you for checking out my unboxing and really actually is my first close look at an Xbox 360 I'm not much of a console guy normally so I'm usually gaming on my PC but now that I've got my hands on this guy I'll have to give it a shot let you guys know how it goes don't forget to subscribe to - tech tips from unboxings reviews and other computer videos