I wouldn't be rummaging around in a laptop, that's for sure. Too much chance of breaking something. Have you tried using a USB DVD drive, see if that works?
Microsoft issued a patch to close the exploit. I don't see the point in preventing homebrew from being run. After all, you own the xbox, not them. Perhaps them and Sony are secretly married.
Emulators ------------- SDLMAME SDLMAME for the Mac Due to the massive number of bugs introduced to the core MAME (such as all Neogeo games broken), there will NO release of MAME32FX. AGEMAME patches Dat files ------------ MAMEinfo.dat info.dat Catlist
The emulator may either run from the command-line (like DOS), or be difficult to use. A front end puts a nice easy-to-use menu for you, so that you don't have to struggle with the unfriendly emulator, the front end does the hard work for you.