xbox 360 games on a mac
 

I think it is kind of funny that microsoft games are developed on macs... or beta'ed on macs. maybe not all ones at e3 were run on a 2 g5s but who knows

here is a link check it out

Xbox 360

What are your feelings on this... i think that it is funny that they are developed or tested on macs.... if that webste is even telling us the truth

Patty, here's a thread on this from the end of E3:

<a href="http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showthread.php?t=89427">Interesting pics at the XBox 360 booth.</a>

crap...I wanted to say that... :hmm:

They're just using the G5 to run the tech demos.

Seeing as, at this point, it's essentially the same hardware, why not?

Macs rule ;)

They're only using G5 hardware because it's also a powerpc platform. IBM has designed the xbox360 chip basing it off of powerpc architecture.

The video card is proprietary and, considering it's a dev kit, It very well could be running it's own operating system.

Just because the hardware is Apple, doesn't mean it's a Mac.

Also, keep in mind. Microsoft is a SOFTWARE company. They have no allegiance to any particular hardware manufacturers. Just look at with numerous windows handhelds out there and you will see that MS is not x86 exclusive.

You better believe they would have Windows for Mac if Apple would let them.

Heh. You should know, MH73, that the X-Box 360's chip component is still a ways from ready, as is it's GPU. Take note of the 'at this point'. All the dev kits are G5's running a modified version of Windows NT, but again, they're using the core G5 chip developed by IBM and Apple. Microsoft are taking the same architecture and adding some more cores to the processor, not much else.

i know that i thoutght maybe a bit more indepth topic not just sayint wow look what they used. i didnt give it any thought to a few of the things said in this post below yours

now that i see them they are good points