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X-box, is it really just a computer in a fancy case?
Master of Reality:
PS/2 Linux conversion kit:
http://forum.fuckmicrosoft.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=5&t=000308
choasforages:
err, well then i guess they only lost ~50 on it. owell.
lazygamer:
Hehe. Well I wouden't be suprised if MS tried to make the X-box alot more reliable then Windows. The console market knows that a crash is very very rare. Your more likely to get a crash from accidentaly bumping the system then you are from the game itself. Well then again perhaps CD based systems are immune to this, the cartridges weren't.
Also, X-box games are likely more optimized and bugfree then Computer games, thus helping it deal with the MS coding. It all comes down to game history. You cannot patch a console game. Thus when it goes out the door, there should be virtually no bugs, at the worst there should be some rare non-crucial bugs. This is another reason why consoles are so reliable.
Now chances are that the X-box greatly outperforms a 700mhz PIII PC, consoles can use their hardware so optimally that they don't need upgrading. Sadly, all this potential power is partly wasted because it's Microsoft. Can you imagine a Linux made X-box(yes I know there is no company, but imagine if there was)? That would be powerful...
Interscope:
It may greatly outpreform a PII 700.. But new comps are getting better and better.
I think a P4/AMD Athlon XP 2ghz/2000+ with 256mb ddr ram, 60 gb hd and a Geforce 4 Ti GPU would outpreform an Xbox, and those the specs of new computers you can get in the store. I've seen the techdemo's of a GeForce 3 Ti. MUCH better than anything you can get on XXXcox.
And WTF is up with every company having an X in it's product name. XXXcox, OSX, WinXPloited.
And OSX is the only great product in that list...
[ June 25, 2002: Message edited by: Interscope ]
choasforages:
dude, an xbox supposedly pulls about 8 gigaflops, thats over half the power of the new dual g4's at 15 gigaflops/*hehehe, i compared two cpu's of different architictre the *correct* way and imagine a beowulf of those/*imbeded comments wow, i just stole slashdots' way of saying things*/ */ besides nvidia had a hand in the xbox, im suprised that they used a x86 processor in the xbox, its microsoft go figure. godly consoles use ppc and mips procossers. if we want to break it down this way. all the ps1 ps2 and n64 are is assend sgi workstation./*i think they used a costimized version of mips for it*/ and all the game cube is, is a 604e from ibm/*mighta costimized don't know, or renamed it*/
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