Xbox 2 specs...

[FrogDog]

Off-topic question: Does the Gamecube have a hard drive?

 

[PricklyPete]

Originally posted by: FrogDog
Off-topic question: Does the Gamecube have a hard drive?

Not in the box. I am not aware of an add-on, but someone else will have to answer that question.

 

[Sid59]

GC = harddrive

 

[SagaLore]

Originally posted by: tec699
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It doesn't look all that promising...

backwards-compatibility isn't guaranteed, and probably no hard drive unless PS3 ships with one. The Xbox was clearly the best hardware on the market this generation and that's why people bought it. They'll need a similar reason to buy Xbox 2 instead of the PlayStation 3, or they'll go for the safe, Sony choice.

What propaganda article did you read that from. XBox used an NVidia chipset motherboard with 64mb interleaved ddr ram (or 32mb?), and a 733mhz Celeron processor with it's pentium3 pipelines enabled. And it ran on a plain IDE hard drive with a minimized NT Kernel. The controllers ran off USB. Didn't even come with DVD.

People bought it because of marketing.

If Microsoft can't make the XBOX2 reverse compatible with a riced-up IBM comptabile computer, then they've got problems...

 

[SagaLore]

``I would really like to see a hard disk drive in the box,'' said Tim Sweeney, chief executive officer of Epic Games in Raleigh, N.C., who has made his opinions known to Microsoft. ``For a console to really have a useful online component, it has to have the hard drive to store downloaded maps and other data.''

Easy solution. Use a standard laptop harddrive, like the ones that go into a Dell Latitude. Sell it as an addon - plus since it is a laptop drive, it will be more tolerant to drops. That way players could also take the drive out and put it in other xboxes...

 

[Excelsior]

Originally posted by: wyvrn

Originally posted by: KraziKid

Originally posted by: wyvrn
MS should go away from the computer turned console idea. It costs them too much money to try and sell a computer at console prices. 8GB hard drive was more than plenty for even hardcore games. Try a 2 GB size, try a custom motherboard with quality onboard video chipset, and maybe move to AMD processors which is more bang for buck. Only thing I would increase is ram because newer games will surely use more. Overall, the Xbox was not the most efficient system even though I LOVE mine.

Those PowerPC processors will be a lot more bang for the buck than an Athlon. Plus I'm sure MS and IBM will be creating a better deal than MS could get with AMD. Remember, AMD was originally the lead contender until out of the blue (no pub intended), IBM was announced to be the provider for the chip.

Last I saw, pc processors had eclipsed Motorola's in terms of raw power. Apple even announced they were thinking of using intel chips in their computers. I haven't kept up with it though, has Motorola come out with a new line of processors? (PowerPC is an apple spec, right?)

Where the hell did you hear that Apple was thinking of using Intel chips in their computers? They just released the G5s using chips produced at a brand new IBM fab up in NY.

No, PowerPC is IBM.

 

[FFactory0x]

DAMN RIGHT!!!