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Xbox 2 SDK Released On Mac G5?
Espectr0 writes "The Inquirer reports rumors, courtesy anonymous sources, that Microsoft has released the Xbox 2 SDK to select videogame developers, and they are using 'dual Apple Power Mac G5 systems running a custom Windows NT Kernel.' This ties up with earlier rumors which mention that the XBox 2 will be powered by the IBM chip, and ATI will be providing the video chip." The report also notes: "Interestingly, the SDK apparently also features an Apple logo on a side bar within the application."
hmmm wounder how long before the mac zelots turn the xbox 2 into a OS X compatible computer ;P
come comment on the madness at http://slashdot.org/~phreak03/journal/
Blue screens faster than ever.
...that will never be ported to the computer you're running them on.
Where's the .torrent?!
Blue screen different.
The World's Worst Webcomic!
Yeah, those Intel Xenon hard drives I heard were really fast. I think you can store up to 5Ghz of mp3's on them.
It's called a rumor. You need to temper what you hear in the wind with what you actually know for sure. The XBox2 will be a game console and will be released at a similar price-point as the original XBox. Thus, we can safely assume that the cost of its components will be appreciable to the costs of the components in the current XBox.
Whatever you read on the internet more than a year before a product's release is most likely baloney.
How about this rumor. Every XBox2 will have a miniaturized human inside. This will give the X2 far superior natural language handling capabilities. As an even greater benefit, thousands of lonely dorks all over the country will finally be able to strike up friendships with their game console.
I place the previous paragraph in the public domain. Please feel free to spread that rumor wherever.
It breaks my pluginses, my precious!
that's the other inquirer.
Nahhh.
They'll have those perdy Apple kernel panic screens that have been professionally designed by typographers.
"Things are more moderner than before- bigger, and yet smaller- it's computers-- San Dimas High School football RULES!"
XBox2 is going to be released in late 2005(read 2006). Wait a 'few years'(3+), and you will have an awesome system in every room in 2009.
Anxiously awaiting pics ;)
Ummmm, the 64-bit IA-64 version of Windows XP has been available for a long time. Full release version, not a demo.
What's the funniest thing about IA-64?
More bits than users.
LOL!
Vote in November. You won't regret it.
We all know that the XBox2 runs Java!
April 1st isn't for another month guys....
Macs Running windows!?
That's just obscene!
(btw, have some pr0n)
Seriously though, everyone always speculated about PCs running Mac OS or OSX, but the idea of windows running on a Mac (and I mean in native mode, rather then through emulation) seems really weird.
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
That's an informative and interesting post, NT on PowerPC arcitechture and all, but...well, I couldn't get over the fact that your .sig says "would you like to do titty-f'ing?" in Japanese. What the heck is up with that?
...and a voice said "Come and see," and the four horsemen of the apocalypse were unleashed upon the earth, and Microsoft released Windows NT for Macintosh, and verily the end times had come.
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Wow. Here I thought windows 2000 was a complete rewrite and that IE could not be unbundled.
The best way to support the US war effort is to continue buying American products.
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The thought of Microsoft trying to build a future game system around an S3 graphics chipset gives me fits of the snorting giggles >:)
I don't trust any article until it's been duped on here at LEAST twice.
Wow. They published an accurate report as recently as two years ago ??
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I'll tell you what, if Apple contributes anything to the Xbox 2 lets hope it's their industrial design team. Jesus the xbox is ass ugly.
Now if Xbox2 looked like a toaster-sized G5, iPod, iMac, or somesuch then I'll be first in line to buy it.