xbmc

I'm not normally a huge fan of Microsoft's products - not by a long shot - but their entire foray into the world of consoles has been an interesting one. The original Xbox turned out to be a pretty decent system, with some great titles on it.

What really endears the Xbox to me, though, is it's hackability.

A whole range of modchips came out that really enchanced the abilities of what was an already impressive system. Having a hard drive and networking as standard was just too PC-like to be ignored, and the modding community rose to the challenge.