The Countdown (non Photography topc)

11/04/2005 03:46:18 PM · #1

I dont know if anyone here plays video games but the countdown until the release of the XBOX 360 is down to 18 days. whooooo hoooo.

totaldis

Canon EOS-400D Rebel XTi

Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II

11/04/2005 03:54:09 PM · #2

heh, my friend just pranked another friend into thinking he won one. he called him up and said (disguising his voice) "congratulations gary, this is mountain dew, and you've won the xbox 360 a day contest we are putting on." the kid starts flipping out yelling to everyone around him. was a good laugh

11/04/2005 04:02:30 PM · #3

thats a clasic, lol, really funny.

Strikeslip

Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 L IS

11/04/2005 04:11:29 PM · #4

What's the diff between this & a regular Xbox in a nutshell? I suppose I could read some propaganda, but I prefer a few words from real people. I don't own an Xbox, or any game console, but have played my brother's Xbox. I'm wondering becuase it might be something for me to consider when I get my bigscreen HDTV.

11/04/2005 04:14:44 PM · #5

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

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

Plus....

* 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

* Built-in Media Center Extender for Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005

* All games supported at 16:9, 720p, and 1080i, anti-aliasing

There's also a press release.

totaldis

Canon EOS-400D Rebel XTi

Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II

11/04/2005 04:15:21 PM · #6

in other words... quite an upgrade.

Canon EF 17-40mm f/4.0 L USM

11/04/2005 04:16:48 PM · #7

The best part is the conrollers are wireless and the intenet conectivity is wireless, and it plays on HDTV graphics.

dahkota

Canon EOS-7D

11/04/2005 06:36:06 PM · #8

Originally posted by Strikeslip:

Its one thing to play video games and quite another to play it on a big screen. My son plays Halo II and its almost like you are actually in the game. I get fascinated just watching...

Strikeslip