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X-box, is it really just a computer in a fancy case?

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psyjax:
The cool thing about consoles is not the power. It's the fact that it is a set in stone system that will pe supported and developed for, for a very long time. I mean, look at the longevity of the PS1, the NES, and others.

Those consoles lived far beyond the time the technology was outdated and still they remained popular. This is something I like about consoles, they abide by an admirable development standard found only in the early days of computing.

Back in the 80's a new upgrade in hardware or software would only become required once the full potential of all current products had been exausted. I mean I play games on my dual g4 that wont run on lower end computers and think to myself "If this thing were made properly, it wouldent require this much overhead." and it's true.

Programmers, especially game programmers, are soooooo lazy now adays! They slap shit together, leave it full of bugs, make it slow and unoptomized, then expect you to pick up their slack with your hardware.

This is why a prefer console gaming to PC gaming. Consoles are made to last, and force developers to truely exploit the systems capabilities, and exert a higher level of quality control. Because the console is so unforgiving to mistakes it encurages less mistakes.

lazygamer:
Is this "sloppy programmer syndrome" the result of technology advancing faster each year?

If processors only increased by 25mhz each year, things would be much diffrent.

choasforages:
when the peek perforance that can be taken from a peice of silicon it hit, that should be sweet. coders will have to program to run on the chips and since the only way to go faster won't be to go taller/*faster mhz*/ it will be to go wider/*smp*/ we will see some interesting code, and that event will probably be the end of windows as we know it. but then agian i don't think that linux scales past 32 processors right now? sgi is working on it but that take a while. owell. besides im waiting to apple to realases a quad processor tower and a dual procosser laptop/*that are "affordable"*/. they havn't announced it but it should be the NeXT step right?/*pun intended*/

voidmain:
There are many Linux Supercomputer clusters with well over 1000 CPUs.

choasforages:
umm clusters, what i was talking about was something like an origin 3000 or sunfire 15k or e10k/*i don't think that monolithic kernels run too good on 100+processor machines, it would have to wraped around a micro kernel kinda like the hurd i think, but im probably talking out my ass*/. not networked clutsters. but linux does do clustering quite well from what i have heard/*my friend is trying to build a beowulfe from 486's*/

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