So do PS2s though, they manage to pump out some nice looking shit, for some reason PC game manufacturers have only just started using all the pixel shaders and stuff PS2's been using since it first came out.
lol, xbox is the one of the first commercial consoles that had a harddrive and the controller ports are actually usb so you can attach a keyboard and mouse if you ran windows.ps2 isnt good for that kind of stuff even though sony released linux for it but it is very powerful in gaming.
my modded Xbox is possibly the most used console i have, ive only got 5 games for it i just spend my time on emulators. damn DAMN fine way of playing too, IMO. and hell yea Xbox are low-spec PC's. Celeron/P3 hybrid running at 700mhz? ive got a Pentium 3 500mhz that barely runs Calculator. just that unlike PC's consoles stick with a set hardware setup for a number of years so every inch of the CPU/graphics are used eventually.
and i am SURE i heard that Halo was originally a Mac game in an Xbox mag sometime ago. there is usually a little bit of truth in every rumor, they say.
watched a mac video today which was really interesting. didjaknow the Dual G5 powermac HAS to be liquid cooled, WITH 9 fans too? and the new 30" monitor (the largest monitor ever) that apple make needs twin DVI from a special graphics card because the resolution is so high? and that OSX is lightyears ahead of Windows XP, and thier new OS out in early 2005 already has more features than longhorn with simple fundamental new features that the longhorn team completely overlooked (as said by bill gates himself). the apple vid explains all. and its needless to say that apple own 50% of the MP3 player market with the 'pod...
dont get me wrong there arnt as much applications on mac as there are windows, but if anyone has had the pleasure of using the beta OSX Tiger youd probably never look at windows again. Core Image and Core Video rendering effects in realtime providing games designers with a much easier task of putting incredible effects in games with no problems at all. and that the new H264 video codec (the best video compression codec ever) is built into iTunes and Quicktime for Tiger only... not to forget spotlight which is the best search engine for your computer... ever. and the other billion things that easily put windows in its place.
I like the mac gui, it is so much easier to navigate, and they make better use of your vauable screen space. They are fast in graphics capabilities too, That genie minimize effect is fast on a computer with 1/2 the specs of mine in...everything.
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28th October, 2004 at 08:07:30 -
"youd probably never look at windows again. "
urm, yes i would, it'd be the only OS capable of running my programs...
macs are crap. we have to use them so much in my multimedia course, thank god we are replacing ANOTHER room of macs with new PC's, macs are dieing when college's start replacing them with pcs in a MULTIMEDIA lab.
macs suck cause nothing runs on them and it has a backwards bullshit interface.
os9 is complete bullshit, osx is useable, but XP DOMINATES IT WORD
why compare xbox specs to a computer, xbox games run 10 x better than a pc with a processor 5 times better. xbox is made for games unlike computers. thats all.
windows is as deprecated as internet explorer, but if it can be simple for webmaster to make their site W3C Compliant, we can't say this for applications, there is lots of stuff that is present everywhere but not on windows
im just saying that Macs arnt as crap as people say they are, or as they used to be. they really are making leaps and bounds with thier OS. Tiger really will be the best OS out there, its gonna cause a storm in the Mac world.
yea OS9 is bullshit, everything before X was crap. you might as well be comparing OS9 to WinME.
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