[Cialug] OT: New Xbox

[Lee]

Agreed, the first generation XBOX suffered from off-the-shelf psuedo-custom
hardware. But from the sounds of things they learned from those mistakes and
designed a real custom animal.

On a side note I'm a little concerned about pricing for these heavy spec
consoles. I assume the target is still < $300. But would they risk driving
the price higher? Early adopters were paying just about anything for a PS2

-----Original Message-----
From: cialug-admin@cialug.org [mailto:cialug-admin@cialug.org]On Behalf
Of Nathan C. Smith
Sent: Friday, May 13, 2005 3:13 PM
To: 'cialug@cialug.org'
Subject: RE: [Cialug] New Xbox


Didn't that use to be the case but since MS started homogenizing the
platform (directX and such with off-the-shelf hardware) that, apart from no
internal expansion and a tough-to-crack bios it's just a computer in a
shell?

-----Original Message-----
From: Lee [mailto:leeh@csi-rics.com]
Sent: Friday, May 13, 2005 3:03 PM
To: cialug@cialug.org
Subject: RE: [Cialug] New Xbox



I agree that each new generation of consoles offers some exciting computing
possibilites. But all that power and the supporting APIs are dedicated to a
given task. The performance simply doesn't equate to real world apps because
they don't take advantage of custom instructions which open the platforms
full potential.

-----Original Message-----
From: cialug-admin@cialug.org [mailto:cialug-admin@cialug.org]On Behalf
Of Dave J. Hala Jr.
Sent: Friday, May 13, 2005 2:15 PM
To: Cialug
Subject: Re: [Cialug] New Xbox


With heavy duty vid processing, and almost 1 teraflop of cpu
performance, I can't wait till there's a linux port available for that
bad boy...

Why buy a new amd64 pc when an xbox 360 will do!



On Fri, 2005-05-13 at 14:04, Darcy Baston wrote:
> One chip with 3 cores I think. The PS3 will have a multiple core CPU as
well.
>
> And at 3.x GHz per core...that's some good processing power!
>
> Does raise the Windows port-ability question for sure.
>
> Darcy
>
> On Friday, May 13, 2005, at 02:01PM, Nathan C. Smith <smith@ipmvs.com>
wrote:
>
> >
> >Anyone find it interesting that the new Xbox uses 3 PowerPC chips?
> >
> >Can it be extrapolated from this that the core of Windows has been ported
to
> >run on PowerPC?
> >
> >
> >-Nate
> >
> >
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