#Power mac g5 xbox 360 emulator mac os x
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I sorry to rant, I just felt that all the was doing the hundreds of people who work on PPC a disservice.ДЄs already said, Cell is used in the PS3, and Sony made an announcement a while back that Mac OS X would be able to run on the Cell with little to no modification. I can't really say any more than that, even if I did have any real info, but I an assure you that there is no favouritism toward any one of these companies and that the people working on the PPC processors are always giving it their all to ensure that they're as competitive, cost-effective and powerful as possible. Each of the teams for Nintendo, Microsoft and Cell projects are extremely secretive and seperate, even by IBM standards.

#Power mac g5 xbox 360 emulator series

IBM has allways and will always be putting the best of their PPC technology into the IBM Power series servers, with the lessons learnt from that trickling down to each of the other PPC projects. It'll probably never be public knowledge how these systems have been changed since the version of the PPC used by the 360 is proprietary of Microsoft, and they won't share any more info than is needed to the developers, for obvious reasons. Much of the RISC (Altivec) instruction set, the pipelines and caches, and mathematical systems have all been changed to optimise the processor for console use. Yes, it is dual-core, but each core is only a tiny subset of what you get on a full-scale G4 processor. The processor used in the XBox 360 is based on the G4 but heavily modified. All of them are designed specific to the task in hand. IBM have produced a number of customised versions of the PowerPC architecture in the last couple of years, including the processor for the XBox 360, the Nintendo Revolution, and the Playstation 3. how many G5-based Macintosh computers Apple will sell? You think more people will have a 360 or a Macintosh computer? IBM is selling many more processors for the XBox 360 than they are for Macintosh computers, meaning Microsoft gets a bigger discount than Apple. In addition, how many XBox 360s do you think Microsoft will sell vs. The processor in the XBox 360 is not a G5 - while similar to one, it is not one.

Just because two processors use a similar instruction set does not mean you can compare them. Every computer unit Apple sells turns a profit for them. They lose money every time a unit is sold. Microsoft also sells every XBox 360 at a loss. Computers, on the other hand, are built to handle a variety of tasks - from multimedia to number crunching to games to video blah blah blah. They do one thing (play games) and they do it well.

#Power mac g5 xbox 360 emulator ps2

Third of all, the XBox 360 (and also the original XBox, the PS2 and the GameCube) are all dedicated machines. It would not be suitable in a desktop computer. Second of all, as MisterMe said, the processor used in the XBox 360 is NOT a general-purpose desktop computer chip, but a highly specialized multimedia chip. That right there makes your comparison moot - you might as well be comparing your microwave to your stove in terms of video display capabilities. XBox 360 - 116 Gigaflops - price $299-$399ДЄm I the only one that sees a problem here?ДЇirst of all, you're comparing a box with no expansion capabilities to a highly-expandable desktop computer. Quad PowerMac - 76 Gigaflops - price $3,299 But just looking at the statistics for Apple's Quad PowerMac and Microsoft's xBox 360. I'm quite aware that the Mac OS X *might* make the price worth it, but take a look at the games and graphics for the xBox 360, i'm quite amazed. But the new xbox's PowerPC has 165 million transistors! Is Apple really ripping us off this bad? Or is IBM giving Microsoft the benefit of the doubt when it comes to processor designs? I'm not trying to sound like im bashing apple and loving microsoft cuz i feel quite the opposite. The most transistors the 2.5 Ghz dual core PowerPC has is 115 million. How is it that the xBox 360 coming out tomorrow seems to have just as high performance, if not better performance than today's low/mid-range PowerMacs? I know that Microsoft is losing money on the consoles and wants to make up for it with game sales, but geez $299-$399 for a triple-core PowerPC gaming console? That seems like one helluva bargain compared to the $2000 Apple is asking for a dual-core PowerPC machine they have out today.