XBoxLive.fr have managed to get the Web's first images of the development kit for the XBox 360; shipped last May or June the images are of little more than a Mac G5 case with the main scoop being the Microsoft Xenon labels stuck to them, botros news has analysis:They are pics of the development kits sent out I believe last May or June to developers. Back then, the actual system was in such early stages that they shipped Mac G5 computers instead (free of charge I'd assume) to developers to start work on the next gen titles. The article claims that the kit is housed inside the case, when in fact this is not true. These are basically G5 systems (because they use PowerPC processors like the upcoming Xbox 360), but they are running a different kernal and operating system. These pics in fact must be pretty old since these are Alpha boxes and have no graphical optimizations for the specialized ATI card that will be in the upcoming Xbox 360. If I remember correctly, when they shipped, they had a Radeon 9800 Pro or XT card in there.
XBox.fr| 4 images du kit de développement Alpha de la XenonRelated:
Xenon Images Emerge! Dev-kit snapped.
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