Rare have XENON Dev Kits

got any doubles of that collectible? I am waiting like crazy for this game.

 

xbox two will look kewl.. I think they are going to be white like an ipod.

 

doubt it, it's being designed by the dude who freelanced for Apple and designed their current G5 PowerMac... Apparently.

Plus, it will properly, by law, have to have an Apple logo somewhere on it, seeing as they and IBM jointly own the PowerPC 970 Processors they are using.

:0)

 

Yup. Makes me laugh that M$ have to use kit from one of their main rivals.

(The cable running out the bottom connects to a standard Xbox controller)

 

The XBOX 2 alpha dev kits are not what you guys think. It isn't going to be what the consumer version will look like nor will it be big bulky and have wierd designs like a PS2 TOOL. It will be a specially made G5 motherboard tailored specifically to work on XBOX2 game development. I've yet to see one but I know I will because of my developer friend where they should get theirs in about 2 weeks .

 

So Mad i can come and visit. cause i can steal faster than anyman alive.

 

It will be up in UK, not here .

 

Damn... Different country... customs are a bitch when your stealing

 

Sorry Subbie, that's one that I plan on hanging onto for quite awhile.

If it does happen (ship on Xenon) it will be incredibly cool to compare the two versions side by side.

-hl718

 

how does it play in it's current state?

I wantie

 

if this is the devkit why couldnt they make a custom tower like the old alphas for xbox1 so it would be at least a little bit more collectable

and a little question whats the black box in front of the picture lower right site ?

 

I don't know. I don't know a lot about the Xenon in general really. It took me a couple of days before I even realised what they were.

The 'black box' there is my PS2 Tool. I had to trim the picture down a bit so as not to reveal too much detail, otherwise you would have also seen some of the four Xbox debugs on my desk.

 

thougt so but didnt want to speak the word tool out =)

nice thing i remember there was a picture floating around many months ago where a truckload of g5 arrived at microsoft headquarters and anyone thougt they where supposed for a windows@apple for the public now we know better =)

found the picture
october 2003 hmm


dont know if you can tell but are they running some kind of windows nt or xp ?

 

I have one of these, now. Not a Xenon unit, but just a retail G5 system. Mine is a late-2005 dual-core model. Seeing this thread reminded me to power it on. I played the Unreal Tournament 2004 demo a little. This system still works perfectly, however it's missing the air deflector shield. I need to get one of those eventually.

 

This box was from that delivery that faithful day back in 2003. The PO was for QTY:500. After the launch of the 360, Xbox FTEs could buy a G5 for $300.00 starting in December 2005, first come first served. These are probably the ones that show up for sale these days running Mac OS X.

 

One thing I've wondered about the Xenon alphas is about the fact that I've heard that they used 2 G5 systems in parallel as dev kits, and also to demo games to the press/public. Does anyone know if that part is true, or if they only used one system?

 

The packing slips show QTY:1 so I'd go with it only needs 1. I think the famous E3 2005 picture showing two G5's in a cabinet side by side made people think that. I'd assume the booth had back to back displays and each G5 was connected to a display, or a hot spare was there for fail-over.

 

Here is a better view, see the 2 displays back to back.