when 4ever ends
05/23/05, 05:27 PM
And then there was Microsoft’s booth. It wasn’t exactly a surprise that Microsoft was using Apple’s Power Mac G5 computers for next-generation Xbox development: iPodlounge’s Editor-in-Chief noted as much in an article for Xbox Nation magazine last year. But no one expected that come E3, Microsoft’s new “Xbox 360” console demonstrations would be lightly disguised fakes running off of Apple technology. The company’s booth included a collection of display kiosks with empty Xbox 360 shells in their glass windows, distracting viewers from the two G5 towers hidden inside.
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To let gamers taste the power of Microsoft’s new console, each dual-processor Power Mac G5 included two nVidia GeForce FX 6800 Ultra cards. The revelation that Apple’s machines were propping up the new Xboxes caused chuckles amongst attendees and had at least one of the booth’s floor demonstrators defensively declining to assist in our photography efforts. “It’s the same computer that’s on [Apple’s] site,” he testily explained. “You can go there to get pictures of it.” His comments aside, photos of the Apple-powered Xbox 360 displays spread rapidly across the Internet by the end of the show’s first day.
That wasn’t Microsoft’s only appropriation of Apple designs at the show. Several days earlier, Microsoft Corporate Vice President J. Allard was an unlikely source of praise for the iPod, suggesting that it had influenced the design and coloration of the company’s new Xbox 360 game console, and pledging to follow Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ diversification of the iPod family. In subsequent comments, Microsoft Game Studios General Manager Shane Kim claimed that the Xbox 360 would interface with the iPod and other devices to download music and photographs to the new game console’s hard disk. Further substantiation of the feature’s implementation was not provided. Seeing Apple computers powering Microsoft’s key technology demonstrations was surprising, but hearing Microsoft executives repeatedly mention competing iPod products rather than its own unpopular Plays For Sure music players was a step shy of jaw-dropping.
-- taken from ipod lounge.com
hah thats great. not only did microsoft not have running graphics off the xbox 360, but they were running it of an apple computer! remembr a week ago i posted that apple should get into the gaming business.. well there capable of it. and mictosoft apperently thinks they are too ;)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v645/avertdisaster/x362.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v645/avertdisaster/x364.jpg
To let gamers taste the power of Microsoft’s new console, each dual-processor Power Mac G5 included two nVidia GeForce FX 6800 Ultra cards. The revelation that Apple’s machines were propping up the new Xboxes caused chuckles amongst attendees and had at least one of the booth’s floor demonstrators defensively declining to assist in our photography efforts. “It’s the same computer that’s on [Apple’s] site,” he testily explained. “You can go there to get pictures of it.” His comments aside, photos of the Apple-powered Xbox 360 displays spread rapidly across the Internet by the end of the show’s first day.
That wasn’t Microsoft’s only appropriation of Apple designs at the show. Several days earlier, Microsoft Corporate Vice President J. Allard was an unlikely source of praise for the iPod, suggesting that it had influenced the design and coloration of the company’s new Xbox 360 game console, and pledging to follow Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ diversification of the iPod family. In subsequent comments, Microsoft Game Studios General Manager Shane Kim claimed that the Xbox 360 would interface with the iPod and other devices to download music and photographs to the new game console’s hard disk. Further substantiation of the feature’s implementation was not provided. Seeing Apple computers powering Microsoft’s key technology demonstrations was surprising, but hearing Microsoft executives repeatedly mention competing iPod products rather than its own unpopular Plays For Sure music players was a step shy of jaw-dropping.
-- taken from ipod lounge.com
hah thats great. not only did microsoft not have running graphics off the xbox 360, but they were running it of an apple computer! remembr a week ago i posted that apple should get into the gaming business.. well there capable of it. and mictosoft apperently thinks they are too ;)