I have always been left wondering, what do you do with the 120GB drive on my Elite? I stream music and video from my central server, so not for that. Saving the boys’ games will take KBs. Renting movies will take some space (but those are temporary downloads) and map packs and or music for games like Lips are small. So what?

Yesterday, I was enlightened. Simply press the ‘Y’ button on the launch screen in the new XBOX menu and you get game options which include installing the game to the hard drive. Sure, you still need to put the disk in each time (copyright), but it does not spin and that means less chance to damage the disk and DEFINITELY less noise.

Great new feature of the new skin.