Microsoft gets it right!

I've just been playing with an Xbox 360, and it seems that Microsoft is pretty well on the money here.

The console works nicely, I plugged it into my broadband and Xbox Live came up - had a couple of problems signing in initially, but once that was sorted out (and I've got no idea what I did to get it to work) then it was seamless.

The downloads are nice, especially the arcade games, as are the game demos and movie trailers.

Downloads seemed a little slow, they probably aren't using anything like Akami to host stuff close to where it's needed.

The Media Centre Extender bit is pretty cool, downloaded the trial version of Nullriver's Mac OS X Prefpane, Connect360, which allows my Mac to share out the iPhoto library, and the iTunes library to the Xbox, where it can play it all in glorious high-def on my LCD TV.                             

I love the wireless controllers, they're a great idea, and makes it easy for people to take their controllers round to a friend's house, where you hit the big round Xbox button and the console recognises it.

I don't like how you require a WindowsXP Media Centre PC (or Vista) to stream content to the Xbox normally, but I do like it that I can stream the content from my Mac =)