...indirectly, thanks to using less power than the regular old Xbox 360. When just sitting there on the dashboard and doing nothing, exciting New Xbox 360 uses 100 Watts of electricity, compared to the old machine's 149.

We didn't concentrate enough at school to be able to work that out as a precise percentage, but it looks like the new Xbox 360 hardware uses a third less energy. Which will save a whole lot of dolphins from getting mashed up and turned into electricity.

Don't just take our word for it - there's a graph. You can't argue with a graph:

The graph was made by the tech boffins from over at Anandtech, where they go into extreme levels of geek rage over the guts of the reworked Xbox 360. They totally rip one apart and show you how to spot one of these new models in the wild, should you fancy getting one to alleviate your media-fuelled sense of environmental guilt over using electric things.

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