<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/10/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Mike Angstadt</b> <<a href="mailto:daenris@gmail.com">daenris@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div style="direction: ltr;"><div></div><div style="direction: ltr;"><span class="q"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">> if it makes you feel any better, Micro$loth sold these consoles at a
<br>> loss intending to make it up on the sales of their games. so any time
<br>> they are purchased with no intention of buying games you're "stickin'<br>> it to the man". ;)<br>> and if you buy it used with the intention of 'repurposing' the<br>> hardware, well, you're still "stickin' it to the man" :D
<br><br>Yes, in fact it does make me feel better, since Microsoft apparently<br>lost that bet, I don't think they made a whole lot on games.<br><br>Is this true of the X-Box 360 as well? They seem pretty pricey.<br><br>Anyway, I received the little box that started this thread. One
<br>problem I see is that it has a standard 40-pin IDE connector on the<br>mobo, but uses laptop-style drives.<br><br>They included the adapter to use a laptop hard drive, but nothing to<br>get from the 40/80 pin ribbon into the connector on a slim style
<br>laptop CD drive, anybody know where I could get such an adaptor ? It<br>would obviously have to get both IDE and power into the drive connector.<br><br>I can just connect a standard CD dirve to get the system loaded onto
<br>the hard drive, but of course that means I can't close the case,<br>which I'd like to be able to do :-)</blockquote></span></div><div style="direction: ltr;"><div><br>
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Yeah, I think I have one or two lying around :-P<br>
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You can probably pick them up at a Fry's or Microcenter or similar
computer store, though places like Circuit City etc don't carry them as
far as I know.<br>
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