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This is the homepage for James Brokaw. I'm a Lieutenant Commander in the United States Navy, currently stationed in Washington State. I'm a avowed snow lover, part-time ski instructor, and year-round backcountry enthusiast. The header photo was taken of me atop Cowboy Mountain. Other hobbies include hacking, juggling, and generally being geeky.
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Monday 19 October 2009 at 8:23 pm
So there are two different XBox 360’s you can buy — the expensive one with a hard drive, or the cheap ($199) one with no hard drive. Unfortunately, it doesn’t work very well without a hard drive, so people go and buy memory units to let them save games. Even users with hard drives often buy memory units to let them backup games, or transfer data to friends’ consoles. Basically, the memory units expand the functionality of the XBox 360, making it a more desirable product and improving sales, right? So Microsoft would want people to buy memory units, right?
(continue down this rabbit hole)
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