If you have or intend to purchase a lot of games, and install them to your hard drive like I do, getting the Elite would be a good but (as previously stated) expensive choice. Installing games saves time on loading screens, as much as %20 in time, doing so will also lessen the energy your 360 uses and is easier on the hardware, which is very good because you will be MUCH less likely to have to send it in for repairs. Note that you still need to have the game in the disk drive, so you can't rent a game, install it, then take the disk back.