hmmm juicy.. hard to comment at this point though..

is the Heat Sink? The old one had what 2 heatsinks and a 2 fans. This has 1 fan.... Might be missing the two other fans since they are not rly part of the mobo just like how the dvd drive is missing. Still might be a slim Xbox 360 which would just give less surface area to dissipate heat which would make the console hotter and more likely to RRoD. As well there is also the problem of that huge power brick that the Xbox 360 has. Whats the point of being slim when the power brick is bigger than the console.

i do have a 360, and (even tho i'm not a huge fan of microsoft...) i don't think they're copying sony. i think they just see a way to improve the 360 just like sony did with the ps3 and so they're going for it. i am kinda mad tho that i just bought a 360 a couple months ago and now i'm going to have to sell it for this...anyone else feel like game companies wait for you to buy their stuff so they can turn around and immediately sell something else? (nintendo ds anyone? haha)

Hmm, as long as they fixed the very underlying horrible reliability of the motherboard, and the way it keeps its components on then things should be a lot better. That heatsink and fan looks good enough for a board that size.

Having another look, the only real thing they've got to cool IS the CPU, and the 360 games utilize the GPU over anything, but will it be good enough since its integrated? They tend to be slower than say a dedicated slot in PCI-E in PC's. But if they've cracked a good bandwidth, this could actually be a very good motherboard.

I'm actually looking at this with anticipation since this seems to solve a lot of reliability issues, fewer 'slotted' components, and a big fan.

Has Micro$oft done something right?

I don't care about any of these useless details. All I care about is whether or not these new 360s will have the RRoD problem.