[mkent]

Having recently fired it up again the xbox experience (outside of xbla) remains decidedly old school:

- You still need the correct dvd inserted to play.

- You can't turn the xbox off and expect it to save your progress.

- Some games are tightly integrated with xbox live, good luck not paying for it.

- It takes forever between the xbox boot time, initial game load time, copyright notices, in game menus, and save game load time to actually start enjoying a game.

- Installing games to the hard drive for a slight load time bump is very, very slow.

Since picking one up I've been really spoiled by the ipad mini. Just pick it up and play, don't sweat the details.