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  xboxBuying an Xbox 360 Without Inheriting the Red Ring of DeathThe most honest number on a used Xbox 360 isn't the asking price – it's the amp rating printed beside the power socket. Flip the console over. 16.5A means a launch-era Xenon, 14.2A means a Falcon, and 12.1A means a Jasper – the one revision of the original "fat" 360 that runs cool enough to trust. Microsoft built these machines by the tens of millions across half a dozen motherboard revisions, and from the outside they're all the same white or black wedge. The label is where the truth lives. E
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  ConsoleThe Sega Dreamcast Was Right, Just Two Years Too EarlySeptember 9, 1999. Sega ran the "It's thinking" campaign and shipped a console with a built-in 56k modem when most people were still fighting their family for the phone line. The Dreamcast launched in North America that day and moved a genuinely huge number of units in its first weekend. For about a year, it looked like Sega had pulled off the comeback. Then the PlayStation 2 was announced with a DVD player inside, and the air went out of the room. Why the hardware still feels ahead of its ti
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  ConsoleThe Sega Dreamcast: The Console That Died Too SoonSeptember 9, 1999. Sega spent the day chanting "9/9/99" like a marketing incantation, and for once the hype was earned. The Dreamcast landed in North America with a launch lineup that actually mattered, a 128-bit Hitachi SH-4 CPU, and a built-in 56k modem nobody else was brave enough to bundle. It was the first console of the sixth generation, and it beat the PlayStation 2 to market by more than a year. And then it was gone. Sega pulled the plug on hardware in early 2001, barely 18 months into