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Only 60 of these were ever made (some say it's closer to 40) and 15 years later who knows how many are still in existence. Halo editions, for example, about 200,000 were made. I saw it pop up in an online auction site (not ebay) and watched it like a hawk for the week that it was up and put in the winning bid earlier today and it should be arriving in about a week.
From Wikipedia:
Needless to say I'm extremely excited to own a piece of gaming history.The Xbox Launch Team 2001 Special Edition is a translucent green Xbox with a jewel that is silk screened with the message "Great work!" and a copy of a printed signature from Bill Gates. This Xbox was sold, not given, to members of the Xbox launch team. Two exclusive translucent green "Duke" controllers were included. [...] The Launch Team 2001 consoles were hardware revision 1.0 and all were produced in a Mexico production facility on November 7, 2001 or November 8, 2001.
Anyways, this Xbox is broken in that it powers on for a moment and then immediately shuts off. Fixing it is not an issue for me but I wanted to ask you all what your thoughts are about upgrading it. Upgrades I would be possibly doing include: 1.4ghz CPU upgrade + 128MB RAM upgrade (courtesy of N64 Freak), 2TB HDD upgrade, Xerc, and iND-BIOS (TSOP). My question is basically this: how much of a heinous act would it be to 1) open the unit and repair it (breaking the seals) and/or 2) upgrading its internals? Would doing so hurt the value of the unit or would making an already rare item even more uncommon only increase its value? I know for many collectors, having the seals broken and non-stock hardware installed can be a bad idea but I just wanted to see what you guys thought about that.
For the record, I don't plan on selling it any time soon.