I'd like to change what I said in first post: I believe, now that I look closely, that I have a Philips drive. Either way, I'm the only one I know that owns the special edition. Everyone else either has an Xbox already, or doesn't want one.
I really like it. If I end up having to get another XBOX just so that my roommate and I can play Halo 2 on Live at the same time, I would try to get another Halo one. They're hard to find in stores now but they were still going for pretty cheap on Ebay last time I checked.