Monday, June 19, 2006

the last weeks in california,

at first my parents visited me and toured a little around and discovered vacaville...

A little bit later they produly showed me what nice stuf they got there and how cheap it all is. It reminded me a little when my girlfriend was in berlin and discovered how "cute" shoes you can buy at deichman ( cheap ass shoe store in germany )

anyway I'm glad my parents had fun and so we drove a little bit arround with them to sonoma county, lake berryessa, san francisco ( we joined them there for a couple of hours only) .

Shortly before they left, I got me a new toy, called Xbox360. I'm kinda suprised about myself to spend money on such a toy, cause I always preferred a pc. But after playing with it for nearly 2 weeks I really have to admit: It just do the job...

so a short review:

graphics: wounderfull in HD mode, kinda weak in SD
noise: this thing is very noise so you need to set 8 - 10 Feet away or turn the tv very loud
games: I just got oblivion, and I love it
demos: its very nice that you can download demos for free, so I tried a couple of games sofar.
online: battlefield 2 online is just a hell of fun. But still unsure if I gonna pay 60$ for it
media extender: I didnt had a windows media center available, so I just used the windows vista demo and its way to slow to navigate with it. Sofar I need to find somebody who has a mediatester to see if its worth the 100$ to stream movies and dvd from harddisk. Posted by Picasa