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Xbox 360 Hardware Disassembled and Analyzed
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."
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Thats all i can say. I'm no big microsoft fan. I'm an open source, open idea and freedom of information zealot however the xbox 360 is just cool.
Been plenty of stories on it here but i have to agree with what others have said. The entire package of the 360, the games, the service (xbox live) and the experience is going to make for one hell of a system.
Marked for inflation the 360 costs less than what i spent on an atari years ago, and that is pretty amazing.
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.
Game on!
When Anandtech did this for the original XBox and (after months of XBox fanboys saying 'it's a Pentium 3 processor, not a Celeron') they removed the heat sink to display 'Celeron' on the top of the processor.
The moral of the story is that Fanboys are dumb and uninformend.
Having it external is much preferable to having the console be huge... You can hide the power brick behind your gear, but the console has to be out in the open so you can insert disks, connect accessories, etc...
An added bonus is that console power supplies are the cheapest retail multi-amp DC switching power supplies available. If you need 45 watts at 12 volts for some project you're building, a suitable switching supply from your favorite electronics components dealer would cost you $50-$100. A Gamecube brick can be had for $10.