Sure, we've seen the
PlayStation 3 morph into
somewhat of a desktop machine, but electric0ant decided that simply installing new software was just too easy. No fully functioning Xbox 360s were harmed in the making of the Xbox 360 PC, as the crafty modder snagged a cheap console that had been stricken by the
Red Ring of Death, pawned off the DVD drive, and got to work. The build actually stuff an full-fledged PC within the confines of the Xbox 360's case, and aside from having to swap out a standard optical drive for a laptop rendition and refashioning a spare heatsink, there didn't seem to be many troubles. Of course, a side-mounted fan was necessary to avoid a thermal meltdown after extended use, and he didn't quite get around to rigging up the
external graphics card that he had in mind, but the final creation does manage to run both Windows XP and
OS X. As these things always go, the pictures tell the story, so click on through for a few more select snaps, and then hit the read link for the full skinny.
[Thanks, Paul]
posted May 25th 2007 6:34AM
"The build actually stuff an full-fledged PC within the confines of the Xbox 360's case."
Is it just me, or does the sentence above have atrocious grammar?
Amen brother.
Nice catch! You get a gold star!
Douchebag.
OSx86 project I'm guessing for the OSX, and why, why, why, would he buy a board with AGP. WHY?????? AGP is worthless now.
Couldn't you just cram a mac mini (or miniatx or whatever the PC equivalent is) inside the case?
seems to be big enough.
Argh, and for one second I though some one had hacked the XeLL loader and compiled the darwin PPC branch for 360.
~_~ oh well, that means I still have alot of work to do
Hmm, interesting... I don't follow the 360 scene because I don't own a 360, however I do own a PS3 (heh and just like my Xbox1, I've been using it more for media than games these days, esp. since I have figured out how to trans-code in real time xvid/lossless music + formats that the PS3 natively that streams over the upnp client that Sony added to 1.80 firmware... okay sorry I got off track but if anyone from Engadget wants me to do a write up with some pictures I will this weekend; otherwise I'll get to it when I can later next month and maybe it'll get picked up).
Anyway to get back to the 360 running OSX, I'm even more surprised that the PS3 hasn't had OSX running with out of the box support for installing nix. I don't think enough people are familiar with the hardware like we/they have been in the past. 360 has a larger base and I'd imagine would be easier to work with once you can make that hypervisor your bitch ;).
- Tony R.
That is interesting. When I think about it, it would probably be some what easier to (attempt) to compile darwin on a 360 because I'm not sure how many people are familiar with coding for the cell processor. I'm not sure how much work it will be to hack the kernel to run on a 360 though.
The only problem I can forsee is how the 360 altocates resources to the video card,
BUt anyway. This is offtopic over all,
Good job on getting a pc into the 360 case!
seems kinda silly, you could stuff a pc anywhere couldnt you?