To me the 1k computer is 10 times better than 360, you can change the software and hardware, have individual or a full warrenty on each part. Better internet capabilities, hook my laptop ipod and other things to it, print things, watch tv. Play games. blah blah blah.
And oh yeah you dont have...
I wonder if they will fix these types of issues when vista comes out, heh the only way you can prolly get vista is microsoft points, its kinda funny I read a article about the zune, the only way you can buy music and stuff is by microsoft points, microsoft said they would start only using...
Sometimes I will get this blue screen too, heh come to find out it was the xp cd i was using, when it happend I just cleaned the cd and worked fine. memtest, scandsk stuff like that to make sure its not hardware related.
ummmmmmmmm................ the games, if you have a really nice tv and surround sound, then that means you can afford it. But I never buy first gen consoles since there are always problems, heh for instance the Blue ray on it I heard sucks.
What is the hardware specs, sounds like either your video card is overheating, or proc. Or could be memory realted. There are many different kinds of software to monitor the heat on video cards and procs.