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."

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Darwin/Xbox?

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Given that Darwin is open-source, anybody else think there'll be a push to get it running on the Xbox? It shouldn't be that hard - maybe somebody will even go so far as to come up with an extremely clever hack that would let one install the rest of X on an Xbox...mmm...