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No-Solder Modchip For The Xbox

Posted by timothy on from the play-as-you-please dept.

toothfish writes "There's a review of the latest generation of Xbox modchip over at xbox hacker- no solder, flashable BIOS, 15 min. install, etc. Stuff like this should make it easier for the average Xbox user to run emulators, Linux, and such. No word if it does or does not work in the latest iteration of Xbox though. Anyone from australia order one of these guys yet?"

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  1. The Xbox as WebTV replacement. by jerryasher · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I'd really like to find an easy to use set top box.

    My mother is basically wheel chair bound, and has visual problems. She watches a lot of TV, and has never used a computer.

    She has a WebTV and can surf the web, but her WebTV will not let her watch more than 128K of movies. And I don't believe any WebTV model will. That makes those movies of my kids that much harder to distribute to her.

    So I'd like to find a set-top box internet access solution for her. I haven't done a lot of looking, but it seems that the Xbox running Linux with a cordless USB keyboard may be a winning solution.

    She could surf the web to see the kids, download and play their movies, print their photographs out, and all from a machine designed to work well with TVs. And when her other grandchildren come over, well they can do the first person shooter thing.

    So I have high hopes for this Xbox project. I believe it can really offer a social good to a class of people that don't have a good internet solution.

    Then again, if you know of other, better, also inexpensive set top box internet solutions, do let me know.