On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:46:40 -0800 (PST), AirRaid
<AirRaidJet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>1st Generation: Xenon (2005-2006, launch machines)
>90nm CPU and 90nm GPU, heatsink has since been modified, no HDMI
>
>2nd Generation: Zephyr (2006-2007)
>HDMI ****ts introduced on some machines, heatsinks revised
>
>3rd Generation: Falcon (2007-present)
>65nm CPU and 90nm GPU, includes HDMI
>
>4th Generation: Jasper (TBC, expected this year)
>65nm CPU and 65nm GPU, includes HDMI
>
>5th Generation: Opus (TBC)
>65nm CPU and 65nm GPU, no HDMI, further heatsink revision,
>reconditioned Falcon but in a Xenon casing
>
>6th Generation: Valhalla (TBC)
>Combined 65nm CPU and 65nm GPU, single heatsink, includes HDMI
>
>If you're in the market for a new Xbox 360 and are keen to get your
>hands on one of the newer Falcon machines, the easy way to know what
>you're getting without opening the box is to check the box's barcode.
>Amongst all the information on there is the machine's power usage - if
>it says 203w it's a Zephyr or Xenon machine. If, however, it says
>175w, it's a Falcon, as those machines use less power.
>
Now, exactly which version of these will have an integrated Blu-ray
drive???? If you do not know, you had better keep your hands firmly
clutching your wallet. It is going to happen sooner than later now
that HD-DVD is firmly dead.
Seems as if the current Xbox360 is now at a dead-end, at least as far
as Microsoft's ambitions of it being the living-room media-center
in combination with being the family games-machine. A $200 Blu-ray
peripheral does not cut the mustard, with price of a complete PS3 now
at $399. And it will be $200, as it requires serious internal
programmable smarts to track the evolving Blu-ray standard. The
internal drive in the PS3 gets these 'smarts' for free. Plus the PS3
can play future Blu-ray-capacity games, of course.
Seems as if Microsoft's penny-pinching on the Xbox360 has finally
caught up with them.
John Lewis
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