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Xbox Price Drops For Australia And Europe

Posted by timothy on from the wottaboggin dept.

wallitron writes: "Due to slow sales in Australia, Microsoft is looking to drop the price of it's XBox to $399 (around $200US). With a fast CPU, wizzy graphics card, ethernet, DVD and TV out, it would be a handy thing in the living room if it ran a real OS. At that price it seems good value. Check out the article on the price drop." There are price drops in Europe, too.

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  1. FP by MikeD83 · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    MICROSOFT SUCKS

  2. Amazing by cscx · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    With a fast CPU, wizzy graphics card, ethernet, DVD and TV out, it would be a handy thing in the living room if it ran a real OS.

    If you are so f**king concerned with running Linux on your TV set in the living room, build a computer with a graphics card, ethernet, DVD, and TV out and hook it the fuck up to your TV set. Quit bitching about a what is in all reality A VIDEO GAME CONSOLE. It's not meant to be a PC.

    1. Re:Amazing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      I agree. He must be a fine example of Linux Dronus

    2. Re:Amazing by maxmg · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      Well... you could always get a PS2 and run Linux on that.
      I'm hoping for Sony to drop the PS2 prices as well, at least until they put MS out of business...

      Push to test." (click) "Release to detonate..."

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    3. Re:Amazing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      Grow balls and run Gentoo without the bloated KDE WM, you dumbass RedHat/Debian/Mandrake RPM/DEB faggot clone. You are the apex of suck, and you have just displayed your ineptness publicly. I hope you fry in hell because of your retarded "suggestion", faggot.

      Personally speaking, I recommend Afterstep, so "kthxgg" [lame irc.enterthegame.com saying] you fucking newbie "elitist" commie pig.

    4. Re:Amazing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      I SMELL BULLSHIT

  3. Real OS? by quantaman · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    it would be a handy thing in the living room if it ran a real OS.

    Do mean a full version of windows XP with IE, word and all the other wonderful packaged things as opposed to the smaller M$ OS that it comes with? I can't think of anyother operating systems for computers. Can anyone else on /. think of a non-M$ operation system?

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    1. Re:Real OS? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      For your information, Windows runs on top of DOS, and DOS is a glorified interrupt handler. So it's not a "real OS".

  4. Good Old EULA by Renraku · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I'll bet the EULA for an X-box strictly forbids that you purchase them somewhere other than within a 50 mile radius from your house or some other draconian rule. This is so Microsoft can control their prices and legally bust people who don't want to pay $300 for an X-box and just go to to buy one for $200. It wouldn't surprise me a bit.

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  5. Grammatical correctness by ChazeFroy · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Reading the two links from slashdot, I couldn't help but notice the poor journalism and grammatical errors committed by the authors of the aformentioned articles. Identically, this has occurred multiple times on cnn.com's international correspondence pages, especially when reporting the violence in the Middle East. Is this where all of our beloved undergraduate English majors surface?

    I have 50 karma, so I could give two shits and a fuck if you moderate me down. I'm just noticing poor grammar everywhere, so screw you.

    1. Re:Grammatical correctness by LuckyPhil · · Score: 0, Flamebait
      Is this where all of our beloved undergraduate English majors surface?

      Shouldn't that read:
      - Is this where our entire beloved undergraduate English majors surface?

      Yea, I've noticed poor grammar everywhere too! :)

  6. Re:Europes the news... This headline's backwards. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    20 million Australian.

    And unlike Europe, we're above the poverty line, and can afford Xboxen while still enjoying luxuries. Luxuries like food.

    Go back to antifreezing your wine and ripping down walls!

  7. Linux is dying by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Linux is not a real OS. It is a copycat
    of a real OS, namely UNIX(tm). Now true
    BSD Unix(tm) is available to run on the pc
    in the form of FreeBSD, so there is no reason
    to run unstable *linux anymore.

  8. Racist japs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I wonder why they didn't notice that Kabuki Warrior is about their own culture. Shouldn't they be happy? But because it's from Microsoft, it can't be as good as some jap thing?