Building a PC Equal to XBox for the Same Price or Less?

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Building a PC Equal to XBox for the Same Price or Less?

Posted by Cliff on Tuesday July 1, 2003 @03:00PM from the a-challenge-to-the-readership dept.

Lonnold asks: "Every time the topic of Linux on the XBox and/or XBox modding comes up, some one always responds, 'I can build a better PC from scratch, why waste time modding a game console?' So that's my challenge, can anyone demonstrate that it is cheaper to build a PC comparable to the XBox specs?"

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Impossible by GigsVT · 2003-07-01 15:08 · Score: 5, Funny

build a PC comparable to the XBox specs

There's no way you could find hardware that will only run signed binaries on the open market. Only an idiot would buy such crippled hardware, and the company that came out with it would go under quickly, unless maybe they were some kind of monopoly or something.

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Including lawyers fees? by anthony_dipierro · 2003-07-01 15:22 · Score: 4, Funny

Is this with or without the cost of defending yourself from a DMCA lawsuit?
Re:Try this... by KurdtX · 2003-07-01 16:30 · Score: 4, Funny

* MSI motherboard w/ generic "3D" video - $50
* Athlon XP 1700+ CPU - $45
* Kingston 128MB SDRAM - $24
* Seagate Barracuda 30GB 7200RPM drive - $50
* Dynapower METIS ATX Mid-Tower /w 300watt PSU - $22
* NEC 52x CD-ROM drive - $15
Realizing you don't have to make Linux run on something "just 'cause it's there" - $priceless

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You Go by blazerw11 · 2003-07-01 16:36 · Score: 2, Funny

This is utterly pointless. Who cares?

Yeah and anybody else who's curious about something that I and the parent poster think is boring, just don't post your questions where we might be able to see it and not care enough about your pointless question that we feel the need to point out how pointless your questions is and how we really don't care about it.

Whatever, I don't care, it's all pointless.

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1. Re:You Go by Neck_of_the_Woods · 2003-07-01 23:43 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Thanks, at this point I need to call procurement and ask for a new monitor without coffee and snot on it. Coffee stings coming out your nose, did you know that?
  
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Missing something... by shepd · 2003-07-01 19:40 · Score: 2, Funny

XBOX Controller + USB adapter cable: $30
USB plate (to match XBOXes 4 ports): $10
Ability to start a game right away without hassle: Priceless...

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Re:Forgetting something? by zsazsa · 2003-07-02 00:54 · Score: 2, Funny

Crap! So that's why I've been frying CPUs left and right....
Didn't Comodore64 already do this? by ivanmarsh · 2003-07-02 03:15 · Score: 2, Funny

8^)
Re:Um, loss leader anyone? by Glonoinha · 2003-07-02 04:54 · Score: 2, Funny

-MSFT has over $3.5 billion wrapped up in X-box so far.

Maybe Microsoft should have named it the XBox.com

Only a .com could piss away $3.5B in two years and have nothing to show for it one more year after that.

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