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Leaked X-Box 2 Specs Include PPC CPU
Jutebox150 writes "According to the MercuryNews.com, the specifications for Microsoft's successor to the Xbox were revealed. The specs for the next Xbox, at least according to this report, are as follows: Three IBM-designed 64-bit microprocessors, the same chips now used in Apple Computer's high-end G5 PowerMac. This will give the new Xbox 'more computing power than most personal computers.' A graphics chip designed by ATI Technologies that will clock in with speeds faster than the upcoming R400. But what I found most surprising is there are no talks about an internal hard drive, rather suggesting that the next Xbox will instead rely on flash memory, and, depending on hardware cost, backwards compatibility could be out of the question."
Can it run Linux?
Does this mean I'll have to buy a new modchip?
Why dosen't Microsoft give it up and admit to all the Xbox players that they're gaming on a PC? Or in the case of the Xbox2, a Mac. :)
Something tells me that "640K of memory should be enough for anybody" is not going to cut it...
Virginia Tech can make the next supercomputer using a cluster of XBox2s. And as soon as they did, employees of Microsoft would finally remove the flesh-like coverings and reveal their true cyborg selfs as they began the final assimilation effort.
we can expect a Windows XP version for PPC?
I am dying to switch from MacOS X to Windows XP, but it is the i386 price barrier I can't overcome.
Does it come with MyDoom pre-installed?
I don't need a compass to tell me which way the wind shines.
First everybody thinks that Apple is going x86...
Now we know it's Windows going PPC...
(before anyone whines that XBOX != Windows... Two words (ok three): DirectX and Kernel Functions...)
how long until
The shocking thing is it will probably run linux and some variant of *BSD, but not windoze.
...Mac-ophille would run windows on a Mac?
Who'da thunk.
to save on cost MS may not make the Xbox2 backwards compatible.. They could save a fortune if it didnt play games either!
serenity now!
"Done playing Halo"? You lost me.
Don't blame me, I voted for Durga.
The newest version of the xbox has already been hacked. It will contain a flash memory bootable version of something related to Darwin, which will then sit there and look cool, and do absolutely nothing since there is no hard disk, keyboard, or mouse.
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Exactly. This way, it'll just be a Mac in a fancy box. :)
Ugliest. Mac. Evar !
"Internally, Microsoft has begun developing game prototypes, and it is using G5 systems to do so."
Thanks MS... I'm gonna have a smile on my face all goddamned day.
~D
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Correction - it'll be a Mac in a crappy, ugly box.
That was classic intercourse!
Are you saying that 90% of users should use Macs?
I have a website. It's about Macs.
Yeah, giant gorrilla arms.
After all, there was basically a one in nine chance of both Sony and MS picking the same processor manufacturer. I wouldn't consider Via to be in the running as thier C3 barely compares to a P3 733mhz let alone a moster tri-cpu G5.
Just a Tuna in the Sea of Life
Storing ripped music for use as a soundtrack.
Pfft, I've been using custom soundtracks since the 8bit NES. I just turned off the TV sound and put on a tape instead.
And since the Playstation era, games have had the option to turn off music and keep the SFX, so I put a CD in (well, my computer is my jukebox now), crank up the volume and play games with the music I choose that way.
Ah! HD stored custom soundtracks...kids these days!
You can't take the sky from me...
"Exactly. This way, it'll just be a Mac in a fancy box. :)" ...and you'll have games to play too!
"Derp de derp."
Now we know the real reason the blogger got fired for taking pictures of the Microsoft loading dock. The G5 computers were for the XBox team! No doubt that the XBox team is using Mac G5s to create a development environment. I wonder if it is based on XCode? XCode for XBox. I like the sound of that.
Sony's Cell processor is going to have 7 chips working together to be 1000x more powerful than the most powerful desktop PC now!
Like MS is the only company that releases bullshit press releases about future consoles.
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No, I can just explain it you now: the only way you were able to get to five other playable games was by including a golf game and a game that hasn't been released yet.
I'd rather be lucky than good.
Who ever said 90% of the computer-owning populace shouldn't be using Macs? I've been saying that for years.
Actually, the problem with the XBox is that no one has one. If XBox Next were backwards compatible, how much would that really expand its library? Not much.
No, what they really need to do is make XBox Next backwards compatible with PS2.
Well, first of all, it's heavy.
Yeah, just look at all those people staggering around under the weight of their iPods.