MS has already admited (to CNET) that the demos at the XBox 360 and at E3 are running off Macs so yes, those are Mac G5's.
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.
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MS has already admited (to CNET) that the demos at the XBox 360 and at E3 are running off Macs so yes, those are Mac G5's.
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.