But that success comes at a price. Each Xbox console sells for $299, and analysts estimate it costs the company anywhere from $20 to $150 more than that to get it on store shelves.
taken from one of many articles on this, http://news.com.com/2100-1040-818798.html
Now they sell for $199. If I buy an xbox and no games (which i have, but for other reasons than linux), they lose more than if I had not bought it.
>>Besides, you're still giving your cash to >>Microsoft.
Nope, yer not.. M$ loses money (a lot of money) on each xbox purchase. And look at it this way - the xbox when opened, is nothing more than a PC. I've already upgraded the hard drive in mine for game storage.. but really for the $200 cost you could have a funny/cheap fileserver on your network, stick it to M$ by runing linux, and cause a financial loss to them. I like it =)
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But that success comes at a price. Each Xbox console sells for $299, and analysts estimate it costs the company anywhere from $20 to $150 more than that to get it on store shelves.
taken from one of many articles on this, http://news.com.com/2100-1040-818798.html
Now they sell for $199. If I buy an xbox and no games (which i have, but for other reasons than linux), they lose more than if I had not bought it.
You can easily find many articles on this... I have in the past.. the reason the lose is they are selling it for less than it costs to make.
>>Besides, you're still giving your cash to >>Microsoft. Nope, yer not.. M$ loses money (a lot of money) on each xbox purchase. And look at it this way - the xbox when opened, is nothing more than a PC. I've already upgraded the hard drive in mine for game storage.. but really for the $200 cost you could have a funny/cheap fileserver on your network, stick it to M$ by runing linux, and cause a financial loss to them. I like it =)
nah.. burn em