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thanks for the review, im am hype for tomorrow now.xDJoey said:I hate to sound like a douche, but it's been stated a hundred times before that the blades only comeback as a replacement for the guide blade. There is no option. The new dashboard is mandatory, and if you want to navigate blades, you press the guide button.
Anyway, I just got into the NXE preview program (a whopping 4 days before release), and I freaking love it.
I was having problems with the old Xbox dash and guide freezing... A lot. It was sluggish, and just gave me a ton of problems. The NXE is WAY faster, and 10x more responsive.
The new dashboard, I'm pretty indifferent to. It's no better or worse than the old one, so there's not much to say. I thought I was gonna hate the way the panels disappear to the left, but it hasn't been a problem.
The avatars are also pretty cool. It's pretty much a throw away feature, but it's still pretty neat. Being able to take a picture of your avatar and use it as your gamerpic is a really nice touch as well.
Probably the best addition is Netflix streaming. I watched a little bit of the Office, which is one of the shows they're streaming in HD, and it's absolutely stunning. It rivals Blu-Ray in quality in my mind. Even non-HD movies look really good.
I'm not sure what to say about the install to HDD feature yet. From what I've heard, weather or not it actually enhances a game's performance is on a game to game basis, and I've only installed GOW2 so far, so I don't have much to say. For GOW2, it appears as though they're might be more pop-in than before, it's hard to tell. I imagine playing without the drive spinning is nice, but I didn't really get a chance to hear it in action, since I was listening to a podcast at the time.
Also, making the (almost) entire blade system available through the guide button what a great addition. Being able to manage my active downloads, or even browse the store with out having to quit out to the dashboard is awesome. This is something Sony added recently, and I like that Microsoft was so quick in adding it to their own system. It's never been more clear that Microsoft is a software company, and Sony is a hardware company. If Microsoft would have added this feature first, it would have taken Sony at least a year to implement it into the XMB.
Overall, I'm defintely impressed with the NXE. Can't say there's any real faults that I can find.
Im going be happy with the new update:3
Edit- xbox did maintenance last night on there webpage they're getting ready for the update if you click someone profile it shows an avatar.*its shadow since it now out yet*