Are you toying with the idea of picking up an Xbox 360 but worried about getting an older model versus the new Falcon chipset? Worry no more, because Paul Tallett has the skinny for you:

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I just bought a new XBox 360 Premium yesterday (15-March-2008) and when I got it home I thought I'd make sure I had the newer Falcon 65 nanometer technology unit. I found an article which said shine a flashlight into the bottom and if you can see a copper heat pipe you have the old one, and it turned out I did! My box had a manufacturing date of 2006 so I was pretty miffed and took it back to the shop (Comet) and complained about them selling two year old stock. To their credit, they took it back even though I had opened it and they swapped it for the newer model. The cardboard box has a little flap in it so you can see the manufacturing date, and you want later than 9/2007, but an even easier way to see is on the outside of the box it says HDMI (yes even for the premium), and the power rating is 175 watt instead of 208 watt for the older model. This is also displayed on a sticker on the outside of the box.

Do you have an older model?

I have an older model, and i think i might need a new one soon. In one of my previous posts about my copy of orange box, how it says i must put the disc in an Xbox 360 console, now its starting to do it with halo 3. I don't know, I might just need to send it in to Microsoft for a cleaning, or i might need a new disc drive.

nah already have a new one... after my old one broke down!

Same here, mine had the RRoD right after Christmas. So I gots me a new one. But it sucks since I have to do all of those achievements and stuff all over again.

no you dont if you kept your harddrive... get on aim fool!

They said I couldn't keep the hard drive... wtf???