- Matt Small
----- Original Message -----
From: Smith, Matthew P -CONT(CSC)
To: CF-Community
Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 11:38 AM
Subject: RE: Microsoft cancels hard disk on XBox 2.
you know, someone should, like, make a chip or something you can put on the xbox motherboard, killing the original bios, and letting you do what you want with it. Linux os/media player/etc, switch out to a huge harddrive, isos on the hard drive(no more disks, yay!), etc etc.
I dub my creation:
"modchip"
/putting in the latest from modwhiz.com this weekend, can't wait.
//or not
///plausible deniability for "da man" :P
Seriously, though, I feel your pain.
HOWEVER, with things like distributed computer, ultra-fast networks, etc etc, we aren't but a few years off from harddisks being irrelevent, yah? eide is what, 100, 133 mbps. I think you only need 1.5 for full dvd stream. Heck, I'm planning my wireless for the house, and My goal is media free but available in every room. And I don't need wires, much less a harddrive, for devices to grab what i want over the network and give it to me.
It's where we are headed anyway, it just doesn't make sense because we haven't seen a few implementations yet. We are still in the pipedream phase, like when sony announced the ps3 design a few months back. It's all just crazy ideas right now. Some will suck and fail, the good ones will stick and become standard operating procedure.
But you know all this. :P
-----Original Message-----
From: Angel Stewart
To: CF-Community
Sent: 3/5/04 10:09 AM
Subject: Microsoft cancels hard disk on XBox 2.
You know, I have seen statements by developers in SEVERAL reviews and
interviews that the Xbox hard disk being available from the get go was
what made the system so unique to work on, and what enabled them to do
such amazing things with the system.
Fable, for instance, apparently could not be made without the hard disk
space available to the developers.
Now...they are removing the hard disk from the Xbox 2 and making us rely
on solid state memory devices. So I guess this means we are going to
have to read the system requirements for an Xbox game before we buy it,
and ensure we have a memory device with the appropriate space. In other
words, we would need to ensure our Xbox met the SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS for
the game!
BS!
CEO of partner company and memory device provider M-Systems, Dov Moran
confirmed today that the next version of the Xbox will not ship with a
hard drive. HYPERLINK "http://news.teamxbox.com/content.php?id=5518"Team
Xbox has the story.
"It's a cooperation agreement. The potential isn't clear, but it's in
the billions of dollars. Microsoft has taken the hard disk out of its
Xbox. The only thing left will be a CD; that's all. At some point, when
users want to save their e-mail messages, copy music, or anything like
that, the only storage they'll have is what we give them. It's worth
hundreds of millions to the company, spread over a few years, and we'll
be the main supplier for it; and I hope the sole supplier. "Meanwhile,
development is intense, and requires expenses, although not major ones.
We'll start supply only in 2005."
-Gel
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