XBox Hardware Database Started

Posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday October 9, 2003 @08:22PM from the system-sighting dept.

PerlGuru writes "The Xbox-Linux project has posted a submission form, and now some initial results for various Xbox hardware details. The aim of the form is to collect enough information to be able to make a good guess as to the internals of the box before even taking it off the shelf at the store. Being able to predict the hardware is especially nice considering things like hard drives which can range from 8 to 20 (?) Gb, or the new video encoding chip from Focus which doesn't have Linux support yet."

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Re:20 Gig HD by Babbster · 2003-10-09 21:30 · Score: 3, Informative

Microsoft is likely just putting in whatever drive happens to be cheapest at the moment and then only enabling the first 8 GB in software. After all, HD manufacturers make what sells and 8/10GB hard drives aren't selling anymore, and there's no compelling reason for Microsoft to have special runs of smaller hard drives produced because it would cost them more money than buying off the shelf.