I saw the gamestop deal, thats probably what I'm going to end up buying. I bought a used xbox from them last year, had to return it because it wouldn't read discs, got a different one, and after a month it didn't read discs either, so I ended up selling it. But, if I''m going to softmod it anyway, it won't really matter if it reads discs or not.
Is it really that easy to softmod? I was always a ps2 fan and never did much with xbox, consequently I know very little about anything xbox.