I ask because I've been reading conflicting information about the Launch Team 2001 consoles made on Nov 8 2001. A lot of the stuff I've read states they are all v1.1? So I'd like input on the differences about these. What I gathered so far is that these Launch consoles are 1.0's.
I highly doubt that anything with a 2001 manufacturing date is a v1.1. These are these differences I know of between v1.0 and v1.1: - MCPX X3 ROM updated so that there is now a pre-bootloader between MCPX and what hackers dubbed "2BL". Hackers called it "FBL" (why not "1BL" I don't know). Its TEA hash was hardcoded into the MCPX 1.1 ROM, but TEA had a fatal flaw. - The MCPX circuitry was changed so that when the MCPX ROM is hidden, if you read from its former address range of FFFFFE00-FFFFFFFF, the system would lock up rather than read from the flash ROM "underneath" it. This feature was added to block the "mist" attack where you prematurely disable the MCPX ROM using a hole in parameter validation such that code execution "falls through" to flash ROM, which is hacker-controlled. - The bug in the on-board USB controller was fixed, removing the need for there to be a redundant hub between the motherboard and the controller ports. Thus the controller ports connect directly to the motherboard in a v1.1 rather than go through a daughterboard first. The daughterboard on a v1.0 was a USB hub. - The fan on the GPU was removed. Instead, the GPU has a considerably larger heat sink attached.
No the Launch Team is not v1.1. Wikipedia is very incorrect with the limited editions. For a short while I had quoted the page directly on the Archive, until I got contacted by various collectors, it's v1.0 - it's a launch console, if you put 2 and 2 together it just wouldn't make sense that a Launch console within the XBOX Development Team had second revision motherboard on launch.
also wiki states several hundred units were made, edited by the same user that post the 1.1 information, perhaps wiki needs to be cleaned up...
There most likely were several hundred made. Several Microsoft employees have said this. The origin of this "60 unites made" is unknown to me and I think it is complete crap.
The thing to remember is that they were sold in the Microsoft Store. So the idea that only 60 were made to be sold is silly business. I believe OE said years ago that not all of them even sold at the time.
If you so a quick search on sold xbox consoles on ebay and switch it to highest price sold. You will see that about 7 or 8 have been sold in the last 2 months. I doubt if only 60 were made that this many would have been sold on ebay in the last months. I also think that hundreds were sold!
Exactly, why I suggest everyone get's their XBOX information from the Archive. It's not just written by me, various information comes from various collectors who have research everything as well. Avoid Wikipedia, as it's so incorrect.
