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XBox 360 Designed for Portability?
Spotless Tiger writes "XBox enthusiasts (or at least, those smart enough to read Slashdot) know now that IBM's PowerPC is at the heart of the next generation XBox 360. IBM has released a paper (PDF) on Solid Logic Technology, SLT, a processor technology that will debut on the 360. Essentially, this is another attempt to produce chips that are high performance with low power consumption. There's speculation that, with Microsoft's technology choices and rumours of a removable hard drive, the XBox 360 is designed to be much, much, smaller and more portable than its predecessor." Update: 04/15 04:27 GMT by Z : Removed the link to the paper from the stone age. Sorry about that. As much as I like reading research papers...
1. The next Xbox is, according to all the experts, going to be called the Xbox 360 and based upon IBM's PowerPC.
2. IBM used SLT to manufacture the System/360. (I never said the Xbox 360, I just said the 360.)
3. There's a lot of speculation about the new Xbox being smaller and more portable, etc, than the old one.
This is exactly the opposite of, say, the story about Linus Torvalds where a flamebait quote was made up and attributed to him on the front page.
Now, if you'll excuse me, my submission has resulted in a flood of job offers from various sources: the marketing departments of AT&T and MCI, the sales teams of various car dealerships, and the Mail In Rebate R&D lab at Office Depot Corporation.
The great news is, if Microsoft does use SLT to build the new XBox, it'll be the size of two football fields, making it 37% smaller than the current console...
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I once applied for that job, but my application was rejected because I forgot to include the barcode from the newspaper containing the listing.
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