I'm gonna wait it out for another year to get the PS3 instead!!

So If your girls give you the BS of "i have a headache" you tell her

Im gonna buy an Xbox

Pancho Cachondo wrote:

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Ladies ..Bottom Line ; If you don't want your Boyfriends/fiance/husband spending 500 Buckets on a Xbox you better entertain him !

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LOL 

it's your task as gf/wife/patas negras/etc....to keep him active....

Pancho Cachondo wrote:

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Ladies ..Bottom Line ; If you don't want your Boyfriends/fiance/husband spending 500 Buckets on a Xbox you better entertain him !

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Now that is ONE hell of GREAT IDEA !!!!!

Pancho Cachondo wrote:

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PRINCESSA wrote: No XBox will ever be worth $500.00 that's NUTS!!!   No purse will be 400 dls worth then !

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         YES THE LV IS SO WORTH IT!!! BUT 500 FOR A GAMING SYSTEM I BETTER DO ALOT MORE THEN JUST PLAY VIDEO GAMES AND DVDS!!!!

 

PRINCESSA wrote:

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No XBox will ever be worth $500.00 that's NUTS!!!
 

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shhhhhhhhhhhh.....Princessa not alowed in this thread and if u want to stay u need to give a good reason y not?

@Pancho Cachondo I think I'm gonna do the same

X@vier

Pancho Cachondo wrote:

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PRINCESSA wrote: No XBox will ever be worth $500.00 that's NUTS!!!   No purse will be 400 dls worth then !

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No XBox will ever be worth $500.00 that's NUTS!!!

 

Pancho Cachondo wrote:

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From the hardware perspective yes you are right, but I haven't see what software is loaded on the new Xbox, From the hardware perspoective yes they are complete different and makes to look Obsolete the old one.

Xbox Media Center (Linux Based) has been around for long time and it looks like the New Xbox does exactly the same.

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bro, if u r just buying the xbox to use it as an entertainment system u r wasting ur money thats for sure but like i said before if u r a gamer this is the system for u.

X@vier

X4v13r wrote:

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it all depends on what u r going to use it for.....if u r big into gaming and care about gfx, performance, lates games, and the lates technology, yeah is worth it.

Sorry Pancho Cachondo but u CAN'T mod an Xbox to be like and Xbox 360 just look at the diff in specs, sorry bro but r wayyyyyyyy off on this one.


Xbox

Console
CPU: 733 MHz chip crafted by Intel
Graphics Processor: 250MHz custom chip named XGPU, developed by Microsoft and nVIDIA
Total Memory: The RAM in the Xbox will be supplied by Micron, it will be 64 MB running at 200MHz DDR (Double-Data-Rate)
Memory Bandwidth: 6.4 GB/sec
Polygon Performance: 125 M/sec
Sustained Polygon Performance: 100+ M/sec (transformed and lit polygons per second)
Micropolygons/particles per second: 125 M/sec
Particle Performance: 125 M/sec
Simultaneous Textures: 4
Pixel Fill Rate - No Texture: 4.0 G/Sec (anti-aliased)
Pixel Fill Rate - 1 Texture: 4.0 G/Sec (anti-aliased)
Compressed Textures: Yes (6:1)
Full Scene Anti-Alias: Yes
Micro Polygon Support: Yes
Storage Medium: 2-5x DVD, 10GB hard disk, 8MB memory card
I/0: 2-5x DVD, 10GB hard disk, 8MB memory card
Audio Channels:64 (up to 256 stereo voices)
3D Audio Support: Yes
MIDI DLS2 Support: Yes
AC3 Encoded Game Audio: Yes
Broadband Enabled: Yes
Modem Enabled: No
DVD Movie Playback: Remote control package required
Maximum Resolution: 1920x1080
Maximum Resolution (2x32bpp frame buffers +Z): 1920x1080
HDTV Support: Yes
Controller Ports: 4 USB Ports
The Controller
The Xbox controller is designed from thousands of hours of comfort and usability testing. It is home to:
- Two analog pressure point triggers
- 6 analog buttons (red, blue, green, yellow, black, and white) with 256 degrees of accuracy and control
- 1 eight way directional pad
- 2 menu navigational buttons (back, start)
- 2 peripheral expansion slots,
- 9 feet of cable
- 2 vibration feedback motors for that extra buzz of reality.
Connection Devices & Add-Ons
High Definition AV Pack: This pack connects users that have high-definition ready TVs that support 480p 720p and 1080f component video signals, analog inputs and / or digital receivers.
Memory Unit: Serving as a solution for needed extra storage space.
Advanced AV Pack: Works with S-Video and AV input TVs
RF Adapter: Connects the Xbox to TVs without audio and video connections
Standard AV Cable: Connects the Xbox to TVs equipped with audio and video input terminals. Included with the Xbox.
System Link Cable: A cable for connecting two consoles for 8 player gameplay
DVD Kit: A Kit is required for DVD Movie playback, the kit includes an infa red receiver and a remote.


Xbox 360

Custom IBM PowerPC-based CPU
• Three symmetrical cores running at 3.2 GHz each
• Two hardware threads per core; six hardware threads total
• VMX-128 vector unit per core; three total
• 128 VMX-128 registers per hardware thread
• 1 MB L2 cache

CPU Game Math Performance
• 9 billion dot product operations per second

Custom ATI Graphics Processor
• 500MHz processor
• 10 MB of embedded DRAM
• 48-way parallel floating-point dynamically scheduled shader pipelines
• Unified shader architecture

Polygon Performance
• 500 million triangles per second

Pixel Fill Rate
• 16 gigasamples per second fill rate using 4x MSAA

Shader Performance
• 48 billion shader operations per second

Memory
• 512 MB of GDDR3 RAM
• 700 MHz of DDR
• Unified memory architecture

Memory Bandwidth • 22.4 GB/s memory interface bus bandwidth
• 256 GB/s memory bandwidth to EDRAM
• 21.6 GB/s front-side bus

Overall System Floating-Point Performance
• 1 teraflop

Storage
• Detachable and upgradeable 20GB hard drive
• 12x dual-layer DVD-ROM
• Memory Unit support starting at 64 MB

I/O
• Support for up to four wireless game controllers
• Three USB 2.0 ports
• Two memory unit slots

Optimized for Online
• Instant, out-of-the-box access to Xbox Live features with broadband service, including Xbox Live Marketplace for downloadable content, gamer profile for digital identity, and voice chat to talk to friends while playing games, watching movies or listening to music
• Built-in Ethernet port
• Wi-Fi ready: 802.11a, 802.11b and 802.11g
• Video camera ready

Digital Media Support
• Support for DVD-Video, DVD-ROM, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, CD-DA, CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, WMA CD, MP3 CD, JPEG Photo CD
• Ability to stream media from portable music devices, digital cameras and Windows XP-based PCs
• Ability to rip music to the Xbox 360 hard drive • Custom playlists in every game
• Built-in Media Center Extender for Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005
• Interactive, full-screen 3-D visualizers

High-Definition Game Support
• All games supported at 16:9, 720p and 1080i, anti-aliasing
• Standard-definition and high-definition video output supported

Audio
• Multichannel surround sound output
• Supports 48KHz 16-bit audio
• 320 independent decompression channels
• 32-bit audio processing
• Over 256 audio channels

System Orientation
• Stands vertically or horizontally

Customizable Face Plates
• Interchangeable to personalize the console

I know this stuff may not mean much to u but take my word it can't be done.

X@vier

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From the hardware perspective yes you are right, but I haven't see what software is loaded on the new Xbox, From the hardware perspective yes they are complete different and makes to look Obsolete the old one.

Xbox Media Center (Linux Based) has been around for long time and it looks like the New Xbox does exactly the same.

You know Micro$hit loves chuncky machines to do their things meanwhile Linux do the same or more with less resources.

-- Edited by Pancho Cachondo at 13:05, 2005-11-21

McOSIRIS wrote:

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Does it come w/ espresso machine???

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you can buy it as an add-on....

 

...same with the portable toilet.

X4v13r wrote:

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it all depends on what u r going to use it for.....if u r big into gaming and care about gfx, performance, lates games, and the lates technology, yeah is worth it. Sorry Pancho Cachondo but u CAN'T mod an Xbox to be like and Xbox 360 just look at the diff in specs, sorry bro but r wayyyyyyyy off on this one. Xbox Console CPU: 733 MHz chip crafted by Intel Graphics Processor: 250MHz custom chip named XGPU, developed by Microsoft and nVIDIA Total Memory: The RAM in the Xbox will be supplied by Micron, it will be 64 MB running at 200MHz DDR (Double-Data-Rate) Memory Bandwidth: 6.4 GB/sec Polygon Performance: 125 M/sec Sustained Polygon Performance: 100+ M/sec (transformed and lit polygons per second) Micropolygons/particles per second: 125 M/sec Particle Performance: 125 M/sec Simultaneous Textures: 4 Pixel Fill Rate - No Texture: 4.0 G/Sec (anti-aliased) Pixel Fill Rate - 1 Texture: 4.0 G/Sec (anti-aliased) Compressed Textures: Yes (6:1) Full Scene Anti-Alias: Yes Micro Polygon Support: Yes Storage Medium: 2-5x DVD, 10GB hard disk, 8MB memory card I/0: 2-5x DVD, 10GB hard disk, 8MB memory card Audio Channels:64 (up to 256 stereo voices) 3D Audio Support: Yes MIDI DLS2 Support: Yes AC3 Encoded Game Audio: Yes Broadband Enabled: Yes Modem Enabled: No DVD Movie Playback: Remote control package required Maximum Resolution: 1920x1080 Maximum Resolution (2x32bpp frame buffers +Z): 1920x1080 HDTV Support: Yes Controller Ports: 4 USB Ports The Controller The Xbox controller is designed from thousands of hours of comfort and usability testing. It is home to: - Two analog pressure point triggers - 6 analog buttons (red, blue, green, yellow, black, and white) with 256 degrees of accuracy and control - 1 eight way directional pad - 2 menu navigational buttons (back, start) - 2 peripheral expansion slots, - 9 feet of cable - 2 vibration feedback motors for that extra buzz of reality. Connection Devices & Add-Ons High Definition AV Pack: This pack connects users that have high-definition ready TVs that support 480p 720p and 1080f component video signals, analog inputs and / or digital receivers. Memory Unit: Serving as a solution for needed extra storage space. Advanced AV Pack: Works with S-Video and AV input TVs RF Adapter: Connects the Xbox to TVs without audio and video connections Standard AV Cable: Connects the Xbox to TVs equipped with audio and video input terminals. Included with the Xbox. System Link Cable: A cable for connecting two consoles for 8 player gameplay DVD Kit: A Kit is required for DVD Movie playback, the kit includes an infa red receiver and a remote. Xbox 360 Custom IBM PowerPC-based CPU • Three symmetrical cores running at 3.2 GHz each • Two hardware threads per core; six hardware threads total • VMX-128 vector unit per core; three total • 128 VMX-128 registers per hardware thread • 1 MB L2 cache CPU Game Math Performance • 9 billion dot product operations per second Custom ATI Graphics Processor • 500MHz processor • 10 MB of embedded DRAM • 48-way parallel floating-point dynamically scheduled shader pipelines • Unified shader architecture Polygon Performance • 500 million triangles per second Pixel Fill Rate • 16 gigasamples per second fill rate using 4x MSAA Shader Performance • 48 billion shader operations per second Memory • 512 MB of GDDR3 RAM • 700 MHz of DDR • Unified memory architecture Memory Bandwidth • 22.4 GB/s memory interface bus bandwidth • 256 GB/s memory bandwidth to EDRAM • 21.6 GB/s front-side bus Overall System Floating-Point Performance • 1 teraflop Storage • Detachable and upgradeable 20GB hard drive • 12x dual-layer DVD-ROM • Memory Unit support starting at 64 MB I/O • Support for up to four wireless game controllers • Three USB 2.0 ports • Two memory unit slots Optimized for Online • Instant, out-of-the-box access to Xbox Live features with broadband service, including Xbox Live Marketplace for downloadable content, gamer profile for digital identity, and voice chat to talk to friends while playing games, watching movies or listening to music • Built-in Ethernet port • Wi-Fi ready: 802.11a, 802.11b and 802.11g • Video camera ready Digital Media Support • Support for DVD-Video, DVD-ROM, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, CD-DA, CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, WMA CD, MP3 CD, JPEG Photo CD • Ability to stream media from portable music devices, digital cameras and Windows XP-based PCs • Ability to rip music to the Xbox 360 hard drive • Custom playlists in every game • Built-in Media Center Extender for Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 • Interactive, full-screen 3-D visualizers High-Definition Game Support • All games supported at 16:9, 720p and 1080i, anti-aliasing • Standard-definition and high-definition video output supported Audio • Multichannel surround sound output • Supports 48KHz 16-bit audio • 320 independent decompression channels • 32-bit audio processing • Over 256 audio channels System Orientation • Stands vertically or horizontally Customizable Face Plates • Interchangeable to personalize the console I know this stuff may not mean much to u but take my word it can't be done. X@vier

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    TOO LONG TO READ! BUT XAVIE! ALL I HAVE TO SAY IS CHINATOWN! THEY CREATED IT THEY CAN MODIFY IT!! WHERE THERES A WILL THERE WILL BE A WAY!

it all depends on what u r going to use it for.....if u r big into gaming and care about gfx, performance, lates games, and the lates technology, yeah is worth it.

Sorry Pancho Cachondo but u CAN'T mod an Xbox to be like and Xbox 360 just look at the diff in specs, sorry bro but r wayyyyyyyy off on this one.


Xbox

Console
CPU: 733 MHz chip crafted by Intel
Graphics Processor: 250MHz custom chip named XGPU, developed by Microsoft and nVIDIA
Total Memory: The RAM in the Xbox will be supplied by Micron, it will be 64 MB running at 200MHz DDR (Double-Data-Rate)
Memory Bandwidth: 6.4 GB/sec
Polygon Performance: 125 M/sec
Sustained Polygon Performance: 100+ M/sec (transformed and lit polygons per second)
Micropolygons/particles per second: 125 M/sec
Particle Performance: 125 M/sec
Simultaneous Textures: 4
Pixel Fill Rate - No Texture: 4.0 G/Sec (anti-aliased)
Pixel Fill Rate - 1 Texture: 4.0 G/Sec (anti-aliased)
Compressed Textures: Yes (6:1)
Full Scene Anti-Alias: Yes
Micro Polygon Support: Yes
Storage Medium: 2-5x DVD, 10GB hard disk, 8MB memory card
I/0: 2-5x DVD, 10GB hard disk, 8MB memory card
Audio Channels:64 (up to 256 stereo voices)
3D Audio Support: Yes
MIDI DLS2 Support: Yes
AC3 Encoded Game Audio: Yes
Broadband Enabled: Yes
Modem Enabled: No
DVD Movie Playback: Remote control package required
Maximum Resolution: 1920x1080
Maximum Resolution (2x32bpp frame buffers +Z): 1920x1080
HDTV Support: Yes
Controller Ports: 4 USB Ports
The Controller
The Xbox controller is designed from thousands of hours of comfort and usability testing. It is home to:
- Two analog pressure point triggers
- 6 analog buttons (red, blue, green, yellow, black, and white) with 256 degrees of accuracy and control
- 1 eight way directional pad
- 2 menu navigational buttons (back, start)
- 2 peripheral expansion slots,
- 9 feet of cable
- 2 vibration feedback motors for that extra buzz of reality.
Connection Devices & Add-Ons
High Definition AV Pack: This pack connects users that have high-definition ready TVs that support 480p 720p and 1080f component video signals, analog inputs and / or digital receivers.
Memory Unit: Serving as a solution for needed extra storage space.
Advanced AV Pack: Works with S-Video and AV input TVs
RF Adapter: Connects the Xbox to TVs without audio and video connections
Standard AV Cable: Connects the Xbox to TVs equipped with audio and video input terminals. Included with the Xbox.
System Link Cable: A cable for connecting two consoles for 8 player gameplay
DVD Kit: A Kit is required for DVD Movie playback, the kit includes an infa red receiver and a remote.


Xbox 360

Custom IBM PowerPC-based CPU
• Three symmetrical cores running at 3.2 GHz each
• Two hardware threads per core; six hardware threads total
• VMX-128 vector unit per core; three total
• 128 VMX-128 registers per hardware thread
• 1 MB L2 cache

CPU Game Math Performance
• 9 billion dot product operations per second

Custom ATI Graphics Processor
• 500MHz processor
• 10 MB of embedded DRAM
• 48-way parallel floating-point dynamically scheduled shader pipelines
• Unified shader architecture

Polygon Performance
• 500 million triangles per second

Pixel Fill Rate
• 16 gigasamples per second fill rate using 4x MSAA

Shader Performance
• 48 billion shader operations per second

Memory
• 512 MB of GDDR3 RAM
• 700 MHz of DDR
• Unified memory architecture

Memory Bandwidth • 22.4 GB/s memory interface bus bandwidth
• 256 GB/s memory bandwidth to EDRAM
• 21.6 GB/s front-side bus

Overall System Floating-Point Performance
• 1 teraflop

Storage
• Detachable and upgradeable 20GB hard drive
• 12x dual-layer DVD-ROM
• Memory Unit support starting at 64 MB

I/O
• Support for up to four wireless game controllers
• Three USB 2.0 ports
• Two memory unit slots

Optimized for Online
• Instant, out-of-the-box access to Xbox Live features with broadband service, including Xbox Live Marketplace for downloadable content, gamer profile for digital identity, and voice chat to talk to friends while playing games, watching movies or listening to music
• Built-in Ethernet port
• Wi-Fi ready: 802.11a, 802.11b and 802.11g
• Video camera ready

Digital Media Support
• Support for DVD-Video, DVD-ROM, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, CD-DA, CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, WMA CD, MP3 CD, JPEG Photo CD
• Ability to stream media from portable music devices, digital cameras and Windows XP-based PCs
• Ability to rip music to the Xbox 360 hard drive • Custom playlists in every game
• Built-in Media Center Extender for Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005
• Interactive, full-screen 3-D visualizers

High-Definition Game Support
• All games supported at 16:9, 720p and 1080i, anti-aliasing
• Standard-definition and high-definition video output supported

Audio
• Multichannel surround sound output
• Supports 48KHz 16-bit audio
• 320 independent decompression channels
• 32-bit audio processing
• Over 256 audio channels

System Orientation
• Stands vertically or horizontally

Customizable Face Plates
• Interchangeable to personalize the console

I know this stuff may not mean much to u but take my word it can't be done.

X@vier

Pancho Cachondo wrote:

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Phantasma wrote:

Pancho Cachondo wrote:
Personally I dont think is worth, yeah it looks shiny and cool from the outside BUT you can do exactly the same with an Old one, Yes it takes few mods, change the bios , change the Core Software, Install mod chip, install bigger hard drive and Voila.

I bought a "broken" Xbox on ebay (for 80 buckets), it took me 45 mins with the soldering iron to bring it back to life.

I replaced the hard drive with 120 Gb. They come from stock with a 8gb, Replaced the Original Software with Xbox Media Center and Im able to play movies, MP3's, Surf the web, Weather, News , stream audio and video, I can connect from work to my xbox and watch movies hosted in the Xbox -- Edited by Pancho Cachondo at 10:40, 2005-11-21



aaaaah but is it white and "cooling-tower" shaped???? I didnt think SO!!!


Racist !

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HATERZ@!!!!

Phantasma wrote:

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Pancho Cachondo wrote:
Personally I dont think is worth, yeah it looks shiny and cool from the outside BUT you can do exactly the same with an Old one, Yes it takes few mods, change the bios , change the Core Software, Install mod chip, install bigger hard drive and Voila.

I bought a "broken" Xbox on ebay (for 80 buckets), it took me 45 mins with the soldering iron to bring it back to life.

I replaced the hard drive with 120 Gb. They come from stock with a 8gb, Replaced the Original Software with Xbox Media Center and Im able to play movies, MP3's, Surf the web, Weather, News , stream audio and video, I can connect from work to my xbox and watch movies hosted in the Xbox -- Edited by Pancho Cachondo at 10:40, 2005-11-21



aaaaah but is it white and "cooling-tower" shaped???? I didnt think SO!!!

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Racist !

LMAO.. sounds like a  plan!

Personally I dont think is worth, yeah it looks shiny and cool from the outside BUT you can do exactly the same with an Old one, Yes it takes few mods, change the bios , change the Core Software, Install mod chip, install bigger hard drive and Voila.

I bought a "broken" Xbox on ebay (for 80 buckets), it took me 45 mins with the soldering iron to bring it back to life.

I replaced the hard drive with 120 Gb. They come from stock with a 8gb, Replaced the Original Software with Xbox Media Center and Im able to play movies, MP3's, Surf the web, Weather, News , stream audio and video, I can connect from work to my xbox and watch movies hosted in the Xbox

-- Edited by Pancho Cachondo at 10:40, 2005-11-21