^^Seriously, mine is getting full up...at least make it easier to delete content rapidly...like delete multiple entries simultaneously, as opposed to selecting each item, going to delete, than scrolling up to yes to confirm.^^

Geesh, I just want downloads in the background while in the dashboard...if we can do it while playing a game, that would be sweet, although I'm pretty skeptical about this. The management of memory resources and bandwidth on this console are very tight. I forgot how much the dashboard uses up all the time (64MB?)...part of the reason I believe we haven't seen an update yet is because there are some technical limitations to resource allocation on the unit that MS can't escape.

I can't understand scrolling up and down, and not having the lists loop so it's a seamless scroll. Start A to Stop Z. Ok, start over from A. Same with music files.

Yeah it's a bit of a mess, they need to clean it up quite a bit. I'd like a bigger hard drive but it's not a big deal for me at this point. I don't see a point in keeping demos I don't like, and I usually purchase the ones I do like, so they are only on there temporarily.

But if MS decides to start offering the movies and TV shows, that's going to fill up very very quickly.

I hope the upradable HD will be reasonably priced, otherwise I'll find a way to live with the 20GB.

Woah, are you serious? I thought you could delete everything from the dashboard.

I'm hoping for the ability to play video without a Media Center Edition PC, and in any format. Then I could finally put my old modded Xbox to rest.

And I'll go on hoping for this until the end of time, since it is never going to happen.

Has nobody (on the Internet at large I mean, not just GWJ'ers) tried opening the hard drive case to see if you can just slap an 80GB hard drive in? I haven't even looked at mine to see if it's screwed or a "snap-once" style case.

[Edit] Ok, it's a screw together case. Now I just wonder if it's as easy as putting a replacement drive in or if you have to lock the drive like the first Xbox. I don't see how though since the HDD is an accessory item. I don't have an SATA 2.5" HDD to give this a trial though.

Just found [url=http://us.codejunkies.com/news_reviews.asp?c=US&cr=USD&cs=$&r=0&l=1&p=8&i=8990&s=8]the XSATA[/url] that uses your PC as a hard drive, sounds neat.

Also, it does sounds like it's as easy as just putting a larger drive in. I've seen a couple of modded 360s that say they have 60GB drives. I wonder if you can just Ghost over the existing drive in a PC?

Music and Pictures... yes, but I think Mac users would of like to stream movies as well.

Most of the people that added in 60GB HDDs actually only added them in via USB, concealing them inside the 360 case with some good wiring. Also, I believe the XSATA only allows you to access the content on your 360 harddrive, not really "use" your PC as one.

sorry, just music and photos for OS X users so far, using Connect360.

I don't suppose there's any way for them to improve or customize way you play and access the music on your shared computer, is there? I really hate the way you find music on the 360. Your only choices are either find artist or find album (actually is there an album search, I can't remember atm.) Near impossible when you're talking about over 100gigs of mp3. If only there was a way to view it in folder view, same as Windows Explorer, where I've already categorized my album folders under Genre folders.

That's something I'd buy in the Live Arcade in a heartbeat. Of course I'm using XP Professional, maybe it's better if you're running the Media Center OS?

I've also had no problem using the playlists that are on my computer to load up what I want to listen to. Granted, the setup for actually making a new playlist on the 360 itself sucks, and that playlist can't contain any files that aren't on the 360's hard drive, but I just skipped that and made a couple of specific playlists with winamp.

They work perfectly. I just put them in the same folder as all my music and they show up fine.

*edit for clarity*
I'm using the microsoft software, not the mac connect360 thing. Playlists still work fine. At least from winamp. I don't know about any other media players, though I would assume any playlists you saved in Windows Media Player would work fine too.

Is there a way to access to Picture with Connect360 without having iPhoto installed on Mac? I don't want to spend $80 for iLife especially since I don't plan to use it.

Originally I had OSx 10.2 and it did come with iPhoto... however, I upgraded my Laptop to OSx 10.4 and no iPhoto came with it.
Just to note, I blanked my drive before installing Tiger so what ever was installed or came with my system was erased. I figure, I never used it nor planing to use it... so it was not a big loss. However it seems like I can not stream my pictures using Connect360 with out it. Not too happy about it.

Sigh... I guess if there is no other way to get it to stream, I'll wait until I get a new MacBook Pro.

BTW, Twonky costs a modest amount for a license. For a UPNP server I actually prefer TVersity which is free. Unfortunately the TVersity guys have yet to get their product to work with the Xbox 360.