C'Mon, you dont need a modchip, and especially not a $150 mod chip! There are cheaper modchips around, too starting at around $20. Its just a peice of flash memory, nothing special. However that $150 can be spent getting linux installed.
The onboard bios can be flashed once you solder two points on the motherboard together. I've helped a friend at www.xboxhacking.co.nz do a few of these, he's even got his own xbox linux distro configured now. TV's are fine, especially if your aim is to have it as a media box rather than a desktop. You dont need the keyboard, mouse in your list xbox controller works fine, with an onscreen keyboard when needed. There are a few xine based gui's that are designed for TV work, with only a mouse or remote control. So that only leaves that 120Gb HDD, if you've got a 100Mbit network, and a server, I'd just mount NFS shares all around. Or if you like to cart your media box around places with you it could be useful. Hell I might consider making the xbox my server :) So for the soldering-impaired: XBox Console - $398 (Dick smith) Microsoft AV Pack - $49.95 (Dick smith) Samsung 120Gb HDD - $208 (dragonpc) XBox linux install/bios flash - $100 (xboxhacking.co.nz) Probably dont need the AV pack unless you have a really good TV, and you can enable half the advanced features from under linux (or using xbox media player if you have a evolutionx bios or something. Sascha. On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 09:24, Luuk Paulussen wrote: > >Huh? $399 at the Warehouse or somewhere similar. :-) or am I missing > >something. > >Shane > > Missing quite a few things - well depending on how far you want to go... > Xecuter 2 pro modchip - $150 > 120GB HDD $250 > USB adaptors for keyboard and mouse $50 > USB keyboard and mouse $28 (much cheaper than retail) > > And then you still have to work with what it looks like on a TV, although I > understand flash new TV's look a lot better. I think you can get a > composite to VGA converter box for about $150 though -- Sascha Beaumont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
