The Xbox one x and Xbox one Scorpio both launched November 7th 2017 and a lot of Xbox fans were excited for the new addition to the Xbox one models. Now before we go into a personal review lets drops the specs for this pc killer. The Xbox one X of course big seller was that its a true 4k TV. It also follows up with 6 teraflops, 12 gbs of GDDR5 memory, 326 GB of memory bandwidth, 8 million plus pixels, hdr, wide color gamut, premium dolby atmos sound, and liquid cooled vapor chamber. Now a lot of this had people go what? Not going to lie it had me go what as well. The biggest feature that stuck out to me other then the true 4k was the liquid cooled vapor chamber. That's a big feature for a lot of pc gamers to keep there systems from over heating with out the loud fans to yell over. The other things specs like the teraflops and memory bandwidth and plus pixels had little meaning to aver consumers. From researching it sounds like that's more info that game developers need then the average consumer and to be honest most people just cared for the true 4k look.
Now from my stand point it was interesting thing for Microsoft to come out with a brand new consoles one year after there newest model. The Xbox one 1 first came out in November 22, 2013 and then they brought out the Xbox one s on August 2nd, 2016, and lastly the Xbox one x on November 7th, 2017. The Xbox one coming out for 400 dollars, the Xbox 1 s for 400-350 dollars, and then the new Xbox one x is 500. So in total if a big Xbox fan that bought one of each consoles (I know people that have) there spending roughly 1,300 for a console that all play the same game just different graphics which seems insane considering pc players can pay about this much to get a nice computer that plays so much more. Going further looking at the time frame between the s and the x there really only one year difference before they brought out a new model. As a customer I would be angry, why not wait another year and just not bring out the x instead of release the s at all or why not wait till the x was foul proof cause trust me it had some big downfall.
Getting into the downfall of the consoles the X had a major flaw of the cords not being able to keep up and catching consoles on fire. This happening as quick as 3 hours of playing before it burnt up. The more famous fault was the X had a lot of user screen turn black or simply flicker in and out. I had three customers have this issue and come back to me about it.
So end of a short review if its good or not. The picture is amazing its crisp and clear and just looks so nice. With 80 4k games out there and many more to come in the future its different worth buying in time. I do believe it should have a price drop and that you should wait till the console has another batch made with the flickering pictures fixed and better power cords then they have now. Cause lets face it, no console is worth burning your house down.
Sugar Cookies
Servings: 4 dozen
Ingredients:
- 3/4 cup soft butter (part shortening)
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 egg
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 1/2 cups sifted all purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 400
- Mix thoroughly the first four ingredients
- Sift together and stir in the last three ingredients
- chill at least 1 hour
- Dust surface with flour and flour your rolling pin
- roll out dough 1/8 inch thick and cut circles for xbox symbol
- Place on ungreased cookie sheet
- Bake at 400 degrees for 6 to 8 minutes
Royal Icing
Ingredients:
- 5 tablespoon meringue powder
- 1 tablespoon light corn syrup
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup water
- 4 cups powdered sugar
Directions:
- In a bowl whisk together meringue powder, light corn syrup, vanilla, and water till foamy
- Add powdered sugar and use a hand mixer on speed 1 to mix for 6 min till the mixture is thick and whiten
- Mix on speed 3 or higher till the icing forms stiff peaks
- Put icing in three different bowls with the mixture divided by most being for the white and about little less for green and rest for the black lines.
- Mix in the colors for each of the batches.
I started out by outlining the cookies in white. Its hard to describe how to start to pipe for these. Its defiantly the time for the saying practice makes perfect. Try out the design on three bad cookies and then get started on the other.
Leave the X open for the green royal icing.
After both the white and green royal icing dry use a thin tip to pipe outlines on top of the cookies.
The cookies are very simple to make and to pipe it just takes time. It took me about 2 and half hours to pipe all the cookies I made, which was about 50. Its a very fun experience and a good starter for anyone trying to learn how royal icing works. In a later blog I will post some tips on how to make the perfect flat surface for royal icing and there will be a lot with Christmas coming!
