I was so pleased not to see a sharp in the v1.0 I got 2 days ago. I flashed it right away, doing it once was very easy and that was with the linux 007 one that I loaded with my soft mod from the udata folder on my v1.4 (freaking winbond) anyways after getting off the aerogel (will probably do it with any xbox I get as both I have were leaking, surprisingly the v1.0 was leaking less even being 2 years older and played to hell according to the original owner) Anyways doing that again wasn't hard. The ability to flash in evoX with my v1.0 was awesome, just popped in my slayers disk after I softmodded, flashed and that was it:) I know this is really old and everyone soft mods but I really think think the tsop is worth flashing. It was honestly my first solder job after removing the aerogel cap and it was easy, put it this way, if you can melt some solder on to the tip of the soldering iron and pretty much touch it on top of 2 metal points a couple times your golden. It's quite easy, once again, this may be old but if you have ever considered, it's plain awesome. The ability to pop in an auto installer at boot is awesome. It's just to easy to swap hard drives. I highly recommend it. I only wish I had gotten a xbox years earlier when more people still cared about it.