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Originally Posted by scastle
One possible reason is Apple have to make a profit on the hardware.
Consoles, traditionally, have been sold at a huge loss, and the difference made up with sales of games and accessories.
You can bet the Xbox costs Microsoft a lot more than £250 to manufacture.
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What he said ^^^^^^^^
The XBox 360 will be sold at a loss, just like the original XBox, & just like pretty much every other console.
The consoles are never sold at a profit. The money comes from the games, controllers, memory cards, etc.
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Originally Posted by Damien
Simple. MS are using a different chip BASED on the PowerPC. It is not, however, a G5. They worked with IBM to create a chip based on the G5 but as its turned out it is simply a heavily modded chip and not a G5. Otherwise apple would be using it. Also this chip could not really be used in a computer, it wouldnt work that well.
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Apple wouldn't be allowed to use it. Microsoft own the design - it's their baby, they have the rights (unlike the chip in the XBox 1). I don't see any reason other than that why it couldn't be used in a computer.
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Originally Posted by Damien
The answer to your question is that the chip in the xbox is 1) Not a G5 2) Not as powerful as a PowerMac G5 3) Has been heavily modded. The man reason this has kicked off was because the Xbox 2 development kit runs on G5 PowerMacs and still does
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Yes, it isn't a G5, but it is a RISC based PowerPC chip, albeit made specifically for MS.
Not as powerful???
Hmm.
Latest PowerMac G5 - comes with dual G5 processors up to 2.7GHz.
XBox 360 - has
three 3.2 GHz PowerPC cores on a single chip, each capable of running two threads at once.