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Posted by $loth on Sat Mar 6th at 5:03pm 2004

? posted by Myrk-

From what I've heard the memory cards the Xbox2 is having range from 16mb to 47Gb and are like 20 times faster than an HD.....

yes orph, there isnt much space between 40GB and 47Gb, But there is between 16MB and 47 GB

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Posted by Orpheus on Sat Mar 6th at 5:07pm 2004

i think, i will bow out, i know nothing about cards, or their capacities, and eventually all i will do is look more stupid than usual..

i see way to many numbers of storage capacities, and none of them seem realistic, save the 16 meg one..

save games usually dont save the whole game, just the piece you are in.. thereby rendering the actual file size quite small.

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Posted by ReNo on Sat Mar 6th at 5:24pm 2004

Myrk is somewhere near the truth although it is not confirmed that you will get memory cards this size. The truth is that Microsoft has hired an Israeli company called M-Systems to make memory cards for the next Xbox system, and because of this people are assuming there will be no HDD. Here is a quote from Gamespot about it...

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Last week, Microsoft closed a deal with Israeli manufacturer M-Systems to provide flash memory discs for the successor to the Xbox, commonly referred to as the Xbox Next. Ever since, speculation has run rife that the software behemoth would eliminate hard drives from its next-generation console to increase its profit margins.

Today, a businessman involved with the Xbox Next added fuel to the rumor fire. Speaking to the Israeli business site Globes Online, M-Systems CEO Dov Moran said that Microsoft has indeed decided not to include a hard drive in the Xbox Next's specs. "Microsoft has taken the hard disc out of its Xbox," he said. Moran went on to say, "The only thing left will be a CD," which presumably means a CD/DVD drive.

Moran indicated that in the hard drive's place would be one of his company's flash memory discs, which range from 16MB for civilian use to the whopping 47GB military variety. "At some point, when users want to save their e-mail messages, copy music, or anything like that, the only storage they?ll have is what we give them," said the CEO.

When contacted by GameSpot, Xbox Group Product Manager David Hufford said Moran was "talking way over his head." He continued, "Mr. Moran is aimlessly speculating, and we never comment on speculation. We've made no such announcements about future Xbox products and services and we don't intend to for quite a while. Until we do, we suggest people take guesswork for what it is."

However, if Moran's statements are true, the Xbox Next will likely not be backwards compatible, since it would be almost impossible for it to emulate how some games dump data onto the Xbox's hard drive.

I don't really know what to think to be honest, I'll wait for MS's official word on matters rather than believe rumours.

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Posted by Crono on Sat Mar 6th at 9:19pm 2004

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The user interfaces on the PS2 and Gamecube can technically be counted as an OS, no less. ooh, I rhymed.


(Yeah, I know. But XBox is still the only console which is the same architecture as your computer... To someone like me, that means a lot, now if that's good or bad, that's up to ther person)

I didn't notice Cass's earlier post, sorry.
Well, first off, Mac's, especially the G5's, have very nice hardware, They run circles around the Intel arch. But thier software isn't that great, in my opinion, it's better now then it has been for a long time.
Microsoft is probably using the GUI-Unix aspect of OSX to make many of their games, or have 3rd party make many of their games. Taking that the compilers for OSX are actually more strict then normal Unix language compilers.
Or it could be an entirly different reason. The best way to find out is read documentation on the XBox, and not many people want to do that. [addsig]



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Posted by Hornpipe2 on Sat Mar 6th at 10:03pm 2004

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To someone like me, that means a lot...

Why? [addsig]



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Posted by Crono on Sat Mar 6th at 11:06pm 2004

I've said it many times. I'm not going to say it again as it seems to hit an artery in this community. Also, I haven't asked you why you enjoy this product or anything else, so why should I have to explain my opinions? [addsig]



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Posted by Orpheus on Sat Mar 6th at 11:11pm 2004

? posted by Crono
Also, I haven't asked you why you enjoy this product or anything else, so why should I have to explain my opinions?

you know, i have noticed this about the snarkpit at large, you seem to be obligated to explain why, when you have an opinion about things.. sure it would be nice to know, but one should never be forced to do so..

it is so much more pleasant when info is volunteered, then yanked from the throats of members

if crono likes his toys a certain way, who are we to complain.. i hate consoles, and console games, if that makes me a bad person.. oh well.

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Posted by 7dk2h4md720ih on Sat Mar 6th at 11:50pm 2004

People just generally like to know the reasons why someone likes something they don't. Part of our nature I guess. [addsig]



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Posted by Orpheus on Sat Mar 6th at 11:57pm 2004

? posted by Alien_Sniper
People just generally like to know the reasons why someone likes something they don't. Part of our nature I guess.

i agree, but have noticed that around here, the motivation is not always to acquire info, but to be abrasive.. crono for example, has repeatedly expressed his dislikes, yet the question "why" was asked once more..

could it have been with evil intent, nah, i doubt it considering the source, hornpipe just isn't like that, but the question struck me as inflammatory none the less.. tis why i waited for crono to answer 1st, just to see how it would play out.. typically, it went exactly as i anticipated it would

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Posted by 7dk2h4md720ih on Sat Mar 6th at 11:59pm 2004

It's all my fault. This is why I never start topics! [addsig]



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Posted by Orpheus on Sun Mar 7th at 12:03am 2004

? posted by Alien_Sniper
It's all my fault. This is why I never start topics!

tis not your fault, usually your topics have to do with some form of nudity, this one was not your usually, so it went awry.. give it time, you'll learn how to type with your clothes on yet

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Posted by 7dk2h4md720ih on Sun Mar 7th at 12:05am 2004

Type with my hands? How inefficient and boring. [addsig]



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Posted by Monqui on Sun Mar 7th at 12:11am 2004

I don't even want to THINK about how you make capitol letters (without using the caps-lock, of course..) Har-de-har-har. [addsig]



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Posted by 7dk2h4md720ih on Sun Mar 7th at 12:12am 2004

Well if you're mentally incapable of thinking, I can send you a handy animated .gif I just happen to have lying around. [addsig]



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Posted by Leperous on Sun Mar 7th at 12:15am 2004

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Posted by Monqui on Sun Mar 7th at 12:17am 2004

I tried thinking once... But then I bled so I stopped. Go ahead and send it, I'm sure I can sell it to some freaky websites for money and not give you any. Hmm... Sell it for money. Hooray for redundancy! [addsig]



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Posted by Orpheus on Sun Mar 7th at 12:17am 2004

? posted by Alien_Sniper
Well if you're mentally incapable of thinking, I can send you a handy animated .gif I just happen to have lying around.

why does the idea of something horizontal frighten me so?

*shudders*

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Posted by Monqui on Sun Mar 7th at 12:18am 2004

I'd be more afraid of the vertical.

*zing* [addsig]



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Posted by Orpheus on Sun Mar 7th at 12:21am 2004

? posted by Monqui
I'd be more afraid of the vertical.

*zing*

really? and how would you go about pointing it at the keyboard, if it was up? that sounds really painful.

/me feels woozy all of a sudden..

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Posted by Monqui on Sun Mar 7th at 12:21am 2004

A chair, a rope, a small badger and some tape. [addsig]




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