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axxxr Posts: > 500

Via: news.com

The nifty clips of video games supporting Microsoft's new Xbox 360 console are running on Apple machines, Microsoft confirmed on Friday.

"We purchased a number of Apple G5's because very specific hardware components of the G5 allow developers to emulate some of the technology behind future Xbox products and services," a Microsoft spokesperson said in a statement. "This is an interim development tool that will be replaced with a more powerful and comprehensive solution later."

The current systems shown at product introductions are prototypes. Final systems are expected to come out in all three major regions--North America, Europe and Asia--by the end of the year.

The prices for the new consoles have yet to be announced, but executives have said they won't be released until after the E3 game conference in Los Angeles next week.

Some details have been released on the new console, such as its 20GB hard drive, DVD-ROM drive and 500MHz ATI graphics processor, but others will be announced during the conference. Executives have said that up to 40 titles for the Xbox 360 will be announced by the end of the year.

The new console from Microsoft is based on a similar IBM PowerPC architecture used in Apple computers--the Xbox 360 uses three 3.2GHz symmetrical cores, according to the company. Apple has been using PowerPC chips since 1994 and Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs has said the company is happy with IBM's PowerPC family of chips.

Microsoft recently switched processors from an Intel chip used in the first Xbox console to a custom Xbox processor based on Big Blue's Power technology in its new Xbox 360.

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Posted: 2005-05-16 16:44:24
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Davo_169 Posts: > 500

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Posted: 2005-05-16 16:46:01
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DJcreamz Posts: 463

chumps, old joolsy boy would love to read this
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Posted: 2005-05-16 16:47:45
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Davo_169 Posts: > 500

hyprocrites
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Posted: 2005-05-16 16:48:26
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Cycovision Posts: > 500

ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!

Ahhhh, that's classic

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Posted: 2005-05-16 16:49:30
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DJcreamz Posts: 463

to be fair, it does say "hardware components" microsoft dosnt make hardware in that sense
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Posted: 2005-05-16 16:54:49
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Sage Posts: 233

you guys are idiots. The processors are made by IBM not Apple. They bought the G5s because they are the onnly computers on the market that use IBM PowerPC processors.

IBM does not equal Apple.
Hardware does not equal Software either.
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Posted: 2005-05-16 17:17:56
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Jools Posts: > 500

I heard about Macs being used as the development machines ages ago, when one of the Mac sites posted pictures of a lorry-load of Macs being unloaded at Microsoft HQ.

It's no surprise really... Macs are the only mainstream desktop computers using the PowerPC processor which the Xbox chips are based.

However, Microsoft compiled a version of WindowsNT to actually run the development software on, they didn't use Mac OS X...
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Posted: 2005-05-16 17:23:49
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Sage Posts: 233

*points to post above jools*

Beat you to it ^.^ mac - boy

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Posted: 2005-05-16 17:39:13
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Johnex Posts: > 500

Brace yourself...here it comes...:-D This message was posted from a Z1010
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Posted: 2005-05-16 17:40:37
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