the machine will go on sale in the 1st quarter of 2004 in the US (estimated timeframe)
it will be based on windows xp (cool more hacking to be done then

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the processer will be 3ghz a NVIDIA graphics card and a 100gb hard drive 256mb of ram
but the console itself will NOT have a cd/dvd drive as games will have to be downloaded via a broadband internet connection
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2207229.stm