Beavers and Snow all around

I finally got my Xbox360 after a couple months of waiting. I'm super impressed with it. A couple of small features make it really nice. Apple and MS have buried the hatchet and allowed the ipod to connect to the 360 and play aac files. So you can listen to your music during gameplay. That's a spiffy feature. You can also connect to your home computer and play videos, view pictures, and play music through your xbox. As of yet you can only play aac files off your ipod and not off your computer, which is odd. I'm not sure why they won't allow aac off your computer library yet. Maybe we should count our lucky stars that you can even listen to aac files off your ipod.

One thing that does get me is that you can only play certain original xbox games on the 360. Rumor has it that MS isn't going to port anymore of the original xbox games over the 360 either. Oh well, that's only an issue for about a year or so anyway. Then 360 will be standard and no one will care about the whole backwards compatibility issue.

I do have to give a little shout out to Untitled. He made an xbox360tracker utitily. It goes and checks the inventory of BestBuy and Circuit City's near you. When they have 360's in stock it alerts you, by pop-up on your system tray, through email, or through sms text to your cell phone. Pretty slick utility and it works! Friday it said there were xb0x's in stock at the local BestBuy. I walked in 45 minutes later and bought myself an xbox360! It was a very cool little deal. Anyway, check it out if you're still waiting for that ever elusive xbox360.