IT FINALLY happened and two sources have filed specs of the Microsoft XBox2 hardware. The first came from the Mercury News, with a rather anaemic version of the XBox2 specs.

But TeamXBox has come up with a much more comprehensive version here, and promises more in the not too distant future.

The raw specs are not hugely unexpected, three IBM PPC CPUs, each capable of running two threads, for a total of six threads running at the same time. These cores, reportedly based on the PowerPC 976, the first dual core 65nm PPC core. What is more up in the air is whether each core is SMT capable, or there are true dual cores on each die. Either way, it potentially packs a huge processing punch.

More here.

Geez looks like some pretty "high end" stuff in it... like are they going to be 1,200$ now or what... how they can have that kind of technology for under 300$..i guess we will see...but the fact remains ..its still a console..

I'm pretty upset over lack of hard drive. After all, didn't sony put a hard drive on their ps2 later for no reason

hrrrm, if Microsoft is still saying the Xbox is not profitable, how do they excpect the Xbox2 to be , with that kind of hardware? LOL

Quote: Originally Posted by scapegoat hrrrm, if Microsoft is still saying the Xbox is not profitable, how do they excpect the Xbox2 to be , with that kind of hardware? LOL

Yah - they'd save a lot of money if they used Linux I bet.

They lose money on the console, but make money back in royalties.

exactly.. they may lose 300 dollars each time an Xbox is sold.. but when you goto eb and by a couple games, a controller, DVD remote (assuming you use it), and the Xbox live.. that will eventually pay itself off