http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/18/xbox-360-e3-the-booth-man-the-booth/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/18/xbox-360-e3-the-booth-man-the-booth/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/18/xbox-360-e3-the-booth-man-the-booth/Dec 19th 2005 12:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/18/xbox-360-e3-the-booth-man-the-booth/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/18/xbox-360-e3-the-booth-man-the-booth/Dec 19th 2005 12:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/18/xbox-360-e3-the-booth-man-the-booth/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/18/xbox-360-e3-the-booth-man-the-booth/You made my day with that last shot and the caption.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/18/xbox-360-e3-the-booth-man-the-booth/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/18/xbox-360-e3-the-booth-man-the-booth/
Albeit the xbox 360 so far seems to have the upper hand when it comes to the media hub market, redmond has clearly already lost the console gaming battle...

Long Live PS3!!!!]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/18/xbox-360-e3-the-booth-man-the-booth/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/18/xbox-360-e3-the-booth-man-the-booth/Dec 19th 2005 12:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/18/xbox-360-e3-the-booth-man-the-booth/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/18/xbox-360-e3-the-booth-man-the-booth/Dec 19th 2005 12:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/18/xbox-360-e3-the-booth-man-the-booth/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/18/xbox-360-e3-the-booth-man-the-booth/Dec 19th 2005 12:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/18/xbox-360-e3-the-booth-man-the-booth/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/18/xbox-360-e3-the-booth-man-the-booth/Dec 19th 2005 12:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/18/xbox-360-e3-the-booth-man-the-booth/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/18/xbox-360-e3-the-booth-man-the-booth/Dec 19th 2005 12:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/18/xbox-360-e3-the-booth-man-the-booth/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/18/xbox-360-e3-the-booth-man-the-booth/Dec 19th 2005 12:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/18/xbox-360-e3-the-booth-man-the-booth/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/18/xbox-360-e3-the-booth-man-the-booth/Dec 19th 2005 12:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/18/xbox-360-e3-the-booth-man-the-booth/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/18/xbox-360-e3-the-booth-man-the-booth/Dec 19th 2005 12:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/18/xbox-360-e3-the-booth-man-the-booth/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/18/xbox-360-e3-the-booth-man-the-booth/you are in luck.. I think apple has finally wised up and recently started trying to capture more of the pc gaming market. It is my guess that we will start seeing serious gaming power out of the mac within the next few years..]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/18/xbox-360-e3-the-booth-man-the-booth/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/18/xbox-360-e3-the-booth-man-the-booth/
This is not necessarily a switch to PPC architecture for the future Windows versions, and even the use of Machintoshes is temporary until purpose-built Xbox 360 development machines with PPC processors are manufactured.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/18/xbox-360-e3-the-booth-man-the-booth/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/18/xbox-360-e3-the-booth-man-the-booth/Dec 19th 2005 12:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/18/xbox-360-e3-the-booth-man-the-booth/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/18/xbox-360-e3-the-booth-man-the-booth/Dec 19th 2005 12:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/18/xbox-360-e3-the-booth-man-the-booth/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/18/xbox-360-e3-the-booth-man-the-booth/Dec 19th 2005 12:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/18/xbox-360-e3-the-booth-man-the-booth/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/18/xbox-360-e3-the-booth-man-the-booth/Dec 19th 2005 12:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/18/xbox-360-e3-the-booth-man-the-booth/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/18/xbox-360-e3-the-booth-man-the-booth/The xbox360 runs on 3 ppc chips.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/18/xbox-360-e3-the-booth-man-the-booth/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/18/xbox-360-e3-the-booth-man-the-booth/
Those are Apple Power Mac G5 towers no matter how you look at them. Considering that the XBox 360 developer kit was a Power Mac G5... yeah. Good move, M$.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/18/xbox-360-e3-the-booth-man-the-booth/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/18/xbox-360-e3-the-booth-man-the-booth/Dec 19th 2005 12:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/18/xbox-360-e3-the-booth-man-the-booth/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/18/xbox-360-e3-the-booth-man-the-booth/Can someone please, please, please hack the Xbox 360 to run OSX.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/18/xbox-360-e3-the-booth-man-the-booth/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/18/xbox-360-e3-the-booth-man-the-booth/Dec 19th 2005 12:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/18/xbox-360-e3-the-booth-man-the-booth/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/18/xbox-360-e3-the-booth-man-the-booth/Dont worry, I'm sure its one of the first hacks we'll see.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/18/xbox-360-e3-the-booth-man-the-booth/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/18/xbox-360-e3-the-booth-man-the-booth/Dec 19th 2005 12:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/18/xbox-360-e3-the-booth-man-the-booth/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/18/xbox-360-e3-the-booth-man-the-booth/
1)does the xbox 360 have an HDMI connection?

2)If not, why not?]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/18/xbox-360-e3-the-booth-man-the-booth/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/18/xbox-360-e3-the-booth-man-the-booth/Dec 19th 2005 12:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/18/xbox-360-e3-the-booth-man-the-booth/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/18/xbox-360-e3-the-booth-man-the-booth/Dec 19th 2005 12:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/18/xbox-360-e3-the-booth-man-the-booth/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/18/xbox-360-e3-the-booth-man-the-booth/They had probably observed a lot of switchers.

- They've made the whole console and advertising white.
- If they didn't want people to know, they could have hid the Macs...
- This is nothing new, there were a few photos from before which showed their test system (which was a mac). I refuse to believe internal photos just get out that easily.
- Whats stopping them from having a custom case made for the mac internals ? If they didn't want people to know ?


They want "all" people to be interested in the Xbox. and hope to get them to Windows Media Center from there probably...]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/18/xbox-360-e3-the-booth-man-the-booth/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/18/xbox-360-e3-the-booth-man-the-booth/
Running OSX on an Xbox 360 would certainly make the Mac Mini look quaint, except for that Xbox 360's memory probably isn't expandible.

Anyway, power and features are that important in who will sell the most systems. GAMES are what is important. PS2 had a headstart, Grand Theft Auto, Gran Turismo (before Xbox) and Metal Gear among other exclusive titles. Xbox, although it was more powerful, was much later than PS2 and did not have many MUST HAVE exclusive games (pretty much just Halo). Xbox 360 right now will have the headstart, they will have Halo, Quake 4 (i'm guessing Half-Life 2 and Doom 3 will also be available soon). If they can grab and develop some more exclusive MUST HAVE games they will put a big dent in Playstation's marketshare.

One thing that I've heard plenty about from Xbox and not so much from Playstation is 'media center' features. The media center extender features seem like a nice bonus on the Xbox. If they are implemented well enough, it might even compell me to setup Windows MCE on my desktop so I can record tv shows to watch on my Xbox. And ontop of that, Ballmer is talking about IPTV support on Xbox 360. Xbox 360 really might be the entertainment hub so many have promised but so few have delivered. I really hope Microsoft manages to get HD-DVD in the Xbox 360, but even if they don't I won't mind too much. I hate to sound like a cliche, but I think DVD-DL should be more than enough storage for most games for this generation. Anyone who can even afford an HD set, should be serious enough about it to get a dedicated HD movie player.

I will definately be picking up an Xbox 360 this November.
]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/18/xbox-360-e3-the-booth-man-the-booth/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/18/xbox-360-e3-the-booth-man-the-booth/Dec 19th 2005 12:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/18/xbox-360-e3-the-booth-man-the-booth/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/18/xbox-360-e3-the-booth-man-the-booth/met,

M$ trying to win over the fanboys ... probably not.

*If* I purchased an Xbox 360 there would have to be an OS X hack available to run centre stage (once completed)or similar. This is also assuming the full power of those PPC chips can be utilized with OS X.

M$ would also be making a loss on the sale of the console to me as well which also makes it desireable.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/18/xbox-360-e3-the-booth-man-the-booth/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/18/xbox-360-e3-the-booth-man-the-booth/Dec 19th 2005 12:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/18/xbox-360-e3-the-booth-man-the-booth/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/18/xbox-360-e3-the-booth-man-the-booth/Dec 19th 2005 12:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/18/xbox-360-e3-the-booth-man-the-booth/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/18/xbox-360-e3-the-booth-man-the-booth/Dec 19th 2005 12:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/18/xbox-360-e3-the-booth-man-the-booth/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/18/xbox-360-e3-the-booth-man-the-booth/Dec 19th 2005 12:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/18/xbox-360-e3-the-booth-man-the-booth/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/18/xbox-360-e3-the-booth-man-the-booth/Dec 19th 2005 12:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/18/xbox-360-e3-the-booth-man-the-booth/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/18/xbox-360-e3-the-booth-man-the-booth/Dec 19th 2005 12:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/18/xbox-360-e3-the-booth-man-the-booth/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/18/xbox-360-e3-the-booth-man-the-booth/Dec 19th 2005 12:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/18/xbox-360-e3-the-booth-man-the-booth/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/18/xbox-360-e3-the-booth-man-the-booth/
And I'm loving those faceplates. :D]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/18/xbox-360-e3-the-booth-man-the-booth/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/18/xbox-360-e3-the-booth-man-the-booth/
The whole G5 watercooling thing is a misconception. The G5 uses Heatpipes to transfer heat from the processor heatsink to other ares of the case so it can radiate better. Heatpipes are being used the in the 360 aswell. The reason they are refering to this as 'water-cooling' is because the pipes are filled with water. There are no pump, radiators, or resevoirs involved. They just say they are watercooled to get people's glands going.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/18/xbox-360-e3-the-booth-man-the-booth/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/18/xbox-360-e3-the-booth-man-the-booth/
Porting Osx to Xbox 360 has one major problem which is pretty impossible to fix in a closed source OS. Xbox 360's memory is shared between graphics card and cpu. That means the memory needs to be allocated which requires support from the operating system.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/18/xbox-360-e3-the-booth-man-the-booth/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/18/xbox-360-e3-the-booth-man-the-booth/Dec 19th 2005 12:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/18/xbox-360-e3-the-booth-man-the-booth/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/18/xbox-360-e3-the-booth-man-the-booth/
Any qustions email me or live chat to me at cgillmore@hotmail.co.uk]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/18/xbox-360-e3-the-booth-man-the-booth/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/18/xbox-360-e3-the-booth-man-the-booth/
The 360 will never run OS X - it is simply too massive a task, just because it has a PPC chip does not make it easy.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/18/xbox-360-e3-the-booth-man-the-booth/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/18/xbox-360-e3-the-booth-man-the-booth/
The fact is that we're glad if we see some mods at this time next year, so I won't be holding my breath. In the meantime we're better off just buying the console and enjoying the games.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/18/xbox-360-e3-the-booth-man-the-booth/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/18/xbox-360-e3-the-booth-man-the-booth/Dec 19th 2005 12:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/18/xbox-360-e3-the-booth-man-the-booth/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/18/xbox-360-e3-the-booth-man-the-booth/Dec 19th 2005 12:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/18/xbox-360-e3-the-booth-man-the-booth/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/18/xbox-360-e3-the-booth-man-the-booth/
http://img.engadget.com/common/images/4338113023511192.JPG?0.9243039736469161

... which so totally resembles the icon/logo of the Evil Galactic Empire.

http://www.brandsoftheworld.com/_data/objects/116798/logo_thumbnail.gif

Was I the only one that noticed this?

Tantek
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Remember that MS has spent over $5-$6 BILLION dollars selling 20 million XBox units - you can do the math - since it looks like they have 6 months to themselves, there are two pricing paths they can take - a) they will probably price it a tad higher knowing all the fanboys will scoop it up anyway and then when Sony comes out with theirs, undercut them by $40 to $50 bucks. Sceanrio b) is that they will lowball this Xmas to try to build up a mass market straight away but my guess since they probably can't make enough and it'll be a sellout, scenario a is much more likely though Ms basically wants to make money fom selling games and the online fee you pay each month - that's what they really want.

BTW, the designer of the ipod did NOT design the XBox 360. Jonathan Ivie is an Apple employee - what MS said is that they were ispired by the ipod but of course, being MS, they aimed for the ipod and ended up with Disney's Mickey Mouse VCR from 3 years ago. but fanboys who are using pizza boxes as tables and furniture found by the railroad tracks do not care.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:54AM