This war between consoles has been going on for a while now (read: 4 Months) and many are wondering whether or not a winner has been decided. You could include the Wii in this war but I find that it is in a separate new class of casual gaming and semi-physical gaming. Anyways the Xbox 360 having been out for a much longer time has obviously sold much more consoles but by comparing their numbers at lauch you can somewaht predict a winner. The Xbox 360, launched November 2005, sold 325,902 in the first month of its launch. The PS3 on the other hand only sold 195,000 units in the first onth of launch. That is a huge gap. Also during the PS3 launch the Xbox 360 sold 511,000. You could balme this on the bad production management of the PS3 but the Xbox 360 had the same problem at launch so that claim really is not valid. This would mean we could declare a winner in the first round but the second round is blazing forward with PS3 shortages still rampant to my knowledge and Xbox 360 being bought more and more. The Xbox 3660 being bought more an more could be becuase the people that wnated the PS3 were turned away by the price or by the shortages. We'll have to see how it plays out in the future.With a possible Xbox 360 Version 2 and the Fall 2007 Title Halo 3 coming, Sony had better have something up its sleeve to counteract all of those sales that those options will bring.
This is by far one of the most useless Xbox 360 Mods I have ever seen. from a technical standpoint this is pretty good considering the cooling issues the Xbox 360 has encountered, adding a 5.5" screen to it would not cool it off anymore. But tyring to really play on this little tiny monitor would almost be impossible. It would be good I guess for a travel Xbox 360 but then you could just loook up the Xbox 360 Laptop by Ben Heck. The screen gives you the full capability that any other screen that you hooked the Xbox 360 up to would have.
Original at Engadget.
Well as many of you we were not at the Vista Launch Party (school ugggghhh), and this is what they gave away there. This seems like it would be worth a lot to sell but other than that it isn't worth that much. The Office 2007 and the 360 Controller would be the only valuable things to me as my Vista Experience has been terrible (I am the colleague of the latest Vista article). Well it all adds up to probably around 500-600 dollars which is quite a bit of money if you were to sell all of it. Anyways the contest has already ended on Gizmodo.com to see who gets the bag eau Vista. Hopefully in the near future we are lucky enough to attend events such as these. Not much else to say about it. There are more pictures over at Gizmodo.
Original at Gizmodo.
Alrighty so this is our first Vista article where we actually have the Vista software. Before it was just the beta or some thing we heard. Ok well, my own experiences with Vista go a little something like this:
It was a nice sunny Wednesday and there was a small collaboration around the lunch table. I casually walked up to sit down and eat some pizza. But, with astonishment I saw one of my collegues using is computer. As fast as a bird after a worm, I dashed over and saw he was using iTunes, and he was using it very laggily. He then told me with glee that he was running Vista on his Dell XPS 1210. I decided to do a product test on his version of Vista, because I am such a good friend. So I proceeded with the product test and hit the backspace key twice with two swift motions. Suddenly, out of the blue, he got a BSoD (Blue Screen of Death ( a blue screen that tells u something has gone horribly borribly wrong)). However, this was no normal BSoD. Instead of saying "An Error has Occured," like the normal ones, his said "Error has occured." It also made a wierd WEEE WEEE WEEE WEEE sound like twice a second. Promptly, he force shut it down and tried to restart it. He waited like four minutes while the curser and a black background were the only things visible. After countless force shutdowns, he just decided to leave it and it started working. As luck would have it, this was Vista's way of turning on."
So the moral of this story is that Vista laggs, has wierd BSoD's, and takes a long time to turn on. Also it takes 15 GBs of storage on ur HD, whereas Windows XP takes up around 1 GB. As we have professed in our previous Vista posts, we don't think that this is a payment worth paying for cool effects, but as the saying goes, to each his own.
On a more Microsoft friendly note, I absolutely love the Office 2007 package. I only had the Beta so it stopped working Feb 1st, but now that im using Office 2003 I can see the differance. Office 2007 has a whole bucket load of extra features than 2003. It is just unexplainably wonderful. So go buy Office 2007 and don't buy Vista.