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XBox 360
Aloone_Jonez:
I wonder how long it will be before Linux makes it onto the Xbox 360.
Orethrius:
--- Quote from: Aloone_Jonez ---I wonder how long it will be before Linux makes it onto the Xbox 360.
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I'd wager "not long" - work has been planned and I've heard numerous unverified accounts of one team having broken the 360's code. :cool:
Aloone_Jonez:
Just by looking at the pictures of the motherboard it appears that it'd be very hard to chip. The ICs appear to be soldered to the board in such a way that would make them nearly impossible to remove by hand without damaging them or the board.
EDIT:
I mean look at the motherboard (warning large file)
The IC shown below probably isn't through hole, the pads will be soldered to the board underneath the chip!
MS have made it as hard as possible to chip, the only way of making it harder would have beed to cover the ICs in epoxy resin.
cymon:
Bloody hell, surface mount.
Aloone_Jonez:
Surface mounting of componants is the most common method of manufacture nowadays (it was used in the origional XBox) and with practice are fairly easy to solder (I've hand-built many surface mount PCBs before). The problem with the some of the ICs on this board is the solder pads are on the back of the case, this makes things much harder.
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