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Xbox 360 Hardware Disassembled and Analyzed

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the right-down-to-it's-creamy-caramel-center dept.

Hack Jandy writes "Here is the first article I've seen about the Xbox 360 hardware internals. The article details everything from the storage devices to the CPU and GPU core."

6 of 285 comments (clear)

  1. Re:It's just cool by Spit · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm an open source, open idea and freedom of information zealot however the xbox 360 is just cool.

    Zealot doesn't appear to mean what you think it means. It certainly doesn't mean dropping your ideals when the opposing ideals are "just cool".

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  2. Re:It's just cool by freshman_a · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Seeing as how there are no "open" game consoles, I guess us open source people are SOL when it comes to console gaming then, huh?

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  3. Re:It's just cool by ObsessiveMathsFreak · · Score: 5, Insightful


    I'll be buying it at day one.

    I've got 30-45 mins a day at max i can play, and the experience, ease of use and integration of the xbox and xbox live service is what makes it for me.

    You play less than an hours worth of games a day, yet you want to splash out on a new console system the moment it comes out?

    I'm finding it hard to believe you've finished all the games you own on your current system, so whay the rush to buy a new one? Prudence would dictate that you take the time to expierience the top quality titles of the current generation, before moving onto the next.

    I usually don't buy a system unless I can pinpoint at least three games on it that I simply must have. I've yet to see a console released on day one that offered even two "must have" titles for me.

    Save your money and buy some of the quality titles that you haven't played on your current system. The 360 will still be there in 12 months time, at a cheaper price, and with better games, so why pay more now for less?

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  4. Re:It's just cool by RzUpAnmsCwrds · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Zealot doesn't mean that you stop living. Every one of us depends on Microsoft products in some way, every day. My bank runs on Windows. So does the software that coordinates bus schedules for the transit district here. So does much of the software that handles credit card transactions.

    You cannot escape the fact that we live in a world of proprietary technology. Your BIOS is proprietary software. The software in your vehicle is proprietary technology. Your CPU is proprietary technology.

  5. No wonder the 360 is smaller than the original by PhotoBoy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Just look at the big external brick used to power it in the Anandtech article! Take something that big out of the casing and it's bound to be smaller. It would have ended up the same size as the Xbox 1 otherwise.

  6. Re:It's just cool by cornface · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Because for many people there is inherent pleasure in experiencing something new.

    Many people don't feel the need to regulate and restrict their fun to careful guidelines based on what is "prudent."