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Tom's Hardware Reviews the Xbox

Posted by michael on from the borg-nanoprobes-entering-the-home dept.

steddyj writes: "Tom's Hardware released this article which looks deep into the Xbox, its peripherals, and just about everything from every angle, and compares it to the PS. Incredibly detailed article."

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  1. xbill on XBox? by DocSnyder · · Score: 2, Funny

    I wonder how long it will take for someone to port xbill (which would be more popular than Quake according to the xbill homepage) to the XBox... there is a port for Win32 available, so it shouldn't be too impossible.

  2. Where is Linux for XBox? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's been out for ages. Why no version of Linux for the box yet? I remember lots of little penguin people claiming it wouldn't take long to crack the box and get their favorite kernel running on it. So where is it? Or are Microsoft actually smarter than the smelly unwashed masses?

    1. Re:Where is Linux for XBox? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      "porting the code over will be childs play" Yes, of course it will. And there you will be, leading the pack... I look forward to seeing your name gracing the credits for the first port...

  3. Re:Not unless Microsoft approves by DocSnyder · · Score: 2, Funny

    For another, Microsoft must approve every piece of software that runs on a home XBox so that the company can make up the money it spent marketing the console.

    That's not the problem. Swap penguins and Billies, have Microsoft gratefully approve it (I bet they won't even demand any money for it) and include a hack for the icons to switch back after a fixed date.

  4. Tom's Problem by zerocool^ · · Score: 5, Funny

    The only problem


    with Tom's hardware is


    the ammount of information

    that they display


    per page, in order

    to get as many
    advertisment

    views as possible

    .

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  5. Re:Passport by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    That's right. The Liberty Alliance is going to be much better. It's not controlled by money-grubbing evil companies. Oh wait. It is.

  6. Re:Bad artical - Is Tom's going down hill? by Hoi+Polloi · · Score: 2, Funny

    "artical"? "compeditors"?

    Your competition is obviously the Webster's Dictionary.

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  7. What a badly written article... by Lazy+Jones · · Score: 5, Funny
    Let me quote:
    "The cache has been reduced from 256 to 128 KB/sec, which shouldn't be overloaded. "
    ???
    "As far as memory is concerned, the PS2 has a 250 MHz processor, even if the two are not comparable. "
    Huh?
    "The wait times in dedicated programming on a dedicated platform have nothing to do with the PC, where the CPU spends its time fishing for information, in every sense of the word. To better understand this, it's enough to compare it with the Mac, which, because of its more closed architecture, also makes do with less cache. "
    ??? I stopped reading there. I already have a headache. :-)
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  8. Re:MS Tactics by jmccay · · Score: 3, Funny

    I don't think Microsoft studied the history of the gaming systems market. Anybody remember some of the failed systems. I beleive there was the NeoGeo. The wasn't a whole lot of games out for the system. THe graphic rocked for the time, but the just wasn't that many games. (Of course, I am also ignoring the high cost of the system.) Sega also had a few failed systems becuase they just didn't have the games.

    The PS II has been estimated to have 400+ games including PS I & PS II games. I know the XBox doesn't have that much games out. There are more likely to be games I like when there is a lot of them. I know I am thinking about getting a PS II. I won't consider an XBox. It just isn't worth playing the waiting game for games!

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  9. I saw the Xbox in "action" on NBC Giga-Games by Schugy · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yesterday I zapped through the German TV-Channels and then I just decided to watch NBC Giga. They wanted to show a game, tried to load it 3 times and only a black screen was there. Of cource it wasn't blue :-) Another game needed 4 Minutes to load!! But when the intro was successfully loaded it was time for commercials. Just have fun with that xbox *lol* So how stupid do I have to be to tell the people that the xbox is a must?