Powermac G5s at the Show In Microsoft's own Xbox 360 booth, we saw tons of kiosks running upcoming 360 titles that were actually playable. Games like Top Spin 2 and Need for Speed were playable, but for some reason they didn't actually look all that great for a next-generation console. Note the aliasing in this screenshot...the Xbox 360 GPU is supposed to have AA enabled at all times... To find out why, we had to look a little closer at the kiosks. Each kiosk had a wired Xbox 360 controller connected to it, running into the base of the kiosk that only had one small window showing off a Xbox 360 console. But the console itself wasn't on, looking at the right of the kiosk you get to see the actual power behind the demos: Are those two G5s? A pair of Apple Powermac G5 systems were actually running the Xbox 360 demos, not the 360 console. The consoles in the kiosks weren't actually running, they were just for show - now you know why all the controllers were wired. Yeah they are Because the G5 systems can only use a GeForce 6800 Ultra or an ATI Radeon X800 XT, developers had to significantly reduce the image quality of their demos - which explains their lack luster appearance. Anti-aliasing wasn't enabled on any of the demos, while the final Xbox 360 console will have 4X AA enabled on all titles. We are disappointed that all of Microsoft's Xbox 360 kiosks were running G5 systems as we wanted to see real hardware in action, not behind glass, but Apple should be quite happy. http://www.anandtech.com/tradeshows/showdoc.aspx?i=2420&p=5 :smt043
micorsoft doesn't even trust is ------------ (nothing there) and platfrom to run their xbox360 demos....eshhhh anyway, quite intersting Roi, thank you. --edited.
G5's is kinda old news - we knew a year ago when the xenon Alpha XDK's shipped they were Mac G5's so this really shouldn't be too surprising - especially in regards to the empty 360 shell - it's empty because it's at a show for show, the hardware isn't finalised yet Wired controller makes sense in so many ways too - mostly because the xenon XDK dev used wired controllers, but at a gaming show you don't want to be recharging batteries all day long when people should be playing the damned things but also wireless pad would be somewhat easier to steal.
Your getting soooooo boring... You have no idea what OS its running and if you read previous threads we have talked about it running a version of NT. I wonder what the black box next to it is....
It'll be running its own OS. A Mac is not locked into Mac OS. It'll be running whatever the 360'll be running. And by "platform" its pretty much the same
What you see are alpha Xenon Devkits. They don't run any form of Mac OS, or WinNT. They have an embedded OS (Probably derived from a variant of windows though) They are not running on final silicon - either CPU or GPU. Beta devkits will be shipped soon, but still won't be running final versions of the silicon, and will be runnung slower than final hardware. For any of you who are dreaming of getting Alpha kits, MS want them back before the Betas are released, so unless you have an inside track to MS headquarters, it's unlikely. (Hey, they're only Macs anyway) Wohoo, got my invite to XFest next month. Had to sign an NDA though, so can't release ANY details. Sorry guys.
woops sorry. but i think paulo is the most borring among us, he seems to view the xbox as jesus and the others as satan and lucifer. c'mon! and the face of the tennis player is the first thing that impress me on x360, that's really good (and really in-game)
Nah im just getting sick of people complaining about microsoft, x360 and so on but then turning around and saying omg this great feature on this console.... bla bla even though its basically the same thing they were saying was crap on the x360. Just because i think the x360 seems to be a nice console that seems it has actually been thought of doesnt mean i dont like the idea of getting a revolution specialy as i missed some gamecube games. But just as i am not paying for halo 2 again on the 360 i wont be jumping up and down asking nintendo to charge me for old games.
FWIW, the Alpha kits (that would be the G5 versions) that have been used for dev up until now and were on display at the show are running at around 30-35% of final power. -hl718
-9 year bump- Anyone have recovery discs for the Alpha 360 Dev Kits? Or anyone ever see one boot up? etc..
You talking about myself who happens to own one of these Alpha G5 360's or the kid who replied to my question that has almost 100 posts and joined the forum in Mar 2014?
I'm pretty sure he is talking about you, also having a alpha G5 is a reason to bump a thread this old [h=3][/h]
Who cares about bumping a thread? Option 1: Bump old thread, which may contain info relevant to the bumpers request Option 2: Make a new (extra) thread, when a topic already exists on it. I dont know why people freak out about replying to old posts.... unless its to a sales thread, that is clearly not in use anymore - surely its harmless enough and results in less topics, which means easier to find things.
