I believe this may be the first update I have had a 360 for. The update process worked great. I saw the thing start and just though "Ok, little update, might take a few minutes" then I see the screen go blank and to be honest my first reaction was "Ah Crap!" but alas, it was already done and restarting!

The new layouts look great in my opinion and are definately an improvement. Especially in the realm of the Marketplace, with the newly designed subsections and such. It makes things much more consise and easy to navigate. I like how they applied the new layout to the games library section as well as the mida sections, shiriking those gigantic bars into smaller ones, so more fit on a page! This may be a problem for smaller TVs, I don't know, I play on an 80" or so screen (projector) so it's great for me.

I think my favorite improvement is actually the one "under the hood." I used to always get annoyed at the dashboard for hanging up all of the time, but no more! M$ finally fixed it and now the dashboard is very snappy and the only waiting I have to do is for internet loading. Supposedly some audio codecs were added as well but I don't use it much for streaming video from my PC so I can't really say on that.

I don't have time to write much more of a breakdown than that, but it's a little snippet about the new update anyway. Enjoy!