Xbox hardware was quite advanced for its release date (2001). Many PCs at the time still had 100MHz FSB but the Xbox ran at 133MHz. The Xbox also had DDR RAM, not much of it (64MB), but DDR wouldn't be commonplace until the Pentium 4 and Athlon XP platforms a couple years later. Most PCs were still running regular single-channel SDRAM.>Huge risk and passion project by Ed Fries and Seamus Blackley>Bill Gates saying, "This is a f***ing insult to everything I've done at this company.">Seamus Blackley wanted to make Dreamcast 2>xbox was x86, it ran a customized pentium iii and NVIDIA GeForce 4 hybrid with an additional vertex shader unit, higher clocks, and some features from the new architecture. Nvidia built a true high-end GPU for Microsoft>Xbox would have an AMD CPU inside but Bill made a deal with Intel the day before the reveal >It's not running a customized version of Windows, but the Windows kernel. One stripped down to 256kb, including the boot up animation and sound. That design for example required that a lot of things get linked into a game's executable, like network drivers and the entire TCP/IP stack>Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound, it's competitors required the Dolby Pro Logic 2 codecs>Xbox was released at $299 in November 2001>Microsoft stopped making the original Xbox because Nvidia wouldn't cut the price of the GPUs or at least not enough for Microsoft's liking, a few years after it got launched>Xbox was codenamed Project Midway (Pearl Harbor was in December 1941, Midway Battle was in June 1942)>Microsoft lost over 4 billion dollars selling the OG Xbox at a loss
>>109685528>Microsoft stopped making the original Xbox because Nvidia wouldn't cut the price of the GPUs or at least not enough for Microsoft's liking, a few years after it got launchedI picked up 2 of these brand new when they were selling them off for something like $30 each.Soft modded and stuck in a huge hdd. Ran xbmc with all my movies on it (a bit like plex or jellyfin), retroarch and emulators for Nintendo and Sega games, and around 50 xbox games on the hard drive.Used it daily up until I got myself a dedicated nas.Still have them stored away. I heard you need to check and replace the capacitors as they are known to crap out over time
