Demo Kit and Review Kit Difference

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  1. Dabman

    Dabman Spirited Member

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    Hi, i searching for difference between Review and Temo Kits
    So if i have got 9328.9 and on my bottom screen is write Test Kit is Test?
    Because on sticker is XBOX 360 Console, like Retail but serial number start with 0...
    Someone have screen from bottom for Review Kit?
     
  2. schwatter

    schwatter Spirited Member

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    All demokits have testkit and devkit boards.
    The difference between demokits and reviewerkits are the mainboard.
    reviewerkits = xenonboard, or older
    demokits = zeyphyr and newer
     
  3. LEo

    LEo Fiery Member

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    Not always, also reviewer kits have devkit boards and therefore can debug.
     
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  4. Pikkon

    Pikkon "Moving in Stereo"

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    Also there are xenon demo kits.
     
  5. schwatter

    schwatter Spirited Member

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    thx bove, so now my knowledge is fresh updated :cur_sonic:
    :)
     
  6. Dabman

    Dabman Spirited Member

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    someone have photos of XDK Luncher from review?
     
  7. LEo

    LEo Fiery Member

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    Uhm me, but they are exactly the same as any other launcher.
     
  8. Dabman

    Dabman Spirited Member

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    ehhh
    is written Review Kit like Delevopment Kit / Test Kit?
     
  9. gabe_k

    gabe_k Rising Member

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    Reviewer kits still say "Xbox 360 Development Kit" in the corner.
     
  10. Tyler

    Tyler Enthusiastic Member

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    The launcher recognizes a motherboard as one of 3 types
    Development kit
    Test Kit
    Development kit (1gb) <- Thats for them fancy Xna Kits

    ALL kits basically fall under one fall these categories.

    A reviewer board is a dev kit Xenon board missing all the extra sidecar ports ports. Functions the same, even has the same black-ish case.
    Reviewer kits fall into the dev category. They are Dev kits essentially

    They were discontinued and replaced with demo kits.

    As for the most part demo kits are dev kit's. Later revisions (zephyr ect.) can have test kit mobo's inside, as i have seen on multiple instances.

    Older models (xenon) usually have all the sidecar ports as where newer ones (zephyr+) are missing the power port (2 prong that powers sidecar)

    Both were/are used at trade shows and given to reviewers tester's ect.

    And as xenon.7 pointed out to me a while back, reviewer kits have a typo on the label on the back, it says pronduct id instead of product id.


    whew that was alot , im going to top it of some of the new smiles
    :cur_sonic::cur_sonic::flamethrower::flamethrower::gravedigging::gravedigging:
     
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