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When we started xbox360 today and signed in to xbox360 live, there was a system message saying that there is a console: so as usual, we just clicked OK to download.

The download takes about 20 minutes on a 1mbps streamyx connection — which was unusually long especially since we did not know that these updates were to replace the familiar xbox interface with a new GUI!

The update process was smooth right from the moment we clicked OK. And it was really worth the wait. We managed to have some snapshots of the new xbox interface — the overall initial experience was SUPER! This is a really improvement over the 3-yr old blade-based GUI. Other than GUI updates, there are a few new features:

• Party Chat, multiple users chat
• You can save the game to HDD and play from there (which means, faster!!)
• Avatar — you can now customize your own avatar; even setting the color of eye shadow, or imagining that your eyebrows were as thich as Saddam’s! It’s up to you to customize to have an adorable, cute, huggable one or to the other edge. This is zeno’s AVATAR!! Compare to the real one.
  
• The avatars are dynamic, they acturally interact with the game controller and will do some cute animated tricks and stuffs hehhe kewl addition.
• Netflix — not sure how this is because we are not gold subscribers – but with this, users can instantly stream movies and tv shows right to their consoles.
• Speedy — animations are smooth when you click through the menus and unnoticeable lags.

I’m sure there are tonnes of other reviews on NXE all over the net, so this will be just a short post — and for us; the NXE is very impressive.

Now.. take that PSP3! Go take a hike Nintendo!