25 Jul, 2006

We’re not sure what to make of these, but they look brilliant, and for £30 we’ll be getting our hands on one, or two, or maybe three of these for the next time we sit down for a staff meeting, but unfortunately we’ve not been able to try these yet. Our friends over at The Register have though. They tell us that these slick little devices have caused mayhem all over the country, bringing whole departments to standstills.
Warning: However laughable this may seem at the moment, it won’t be long between this turns into a full scale war between Windows, Apple and Linux.
Update: Inevitably, Linux guerrillas are already bombarding Windows and Apple users with these portable Weapons Of Mass Destruction.
Click here to read the full review of The Register’s review.
Hey? Who needs viruses when you can pelt your colleagues with foam missiles?
25 Jul, 2006


In the Premium bundle of the Xbox 360, you get the System, a pre-installed 20GB HDD, a wireless controller, an Xbox 360 sticker, an Ethernet cable for attaching the X360 to your home network, an HD-AV cable, which is optimized for both HD use and regular TV use, progressive scan DVD playback, the abiltity to stream music from your PSP and IPod through your TV and the chance to connect your system to your Media Center PC.
But of course, you already knew that. I’m here to tell you what the reviews don’t say. Unlinke the original Xbox, the X360 can’t be hacked to run Linux. But all that should change with any luck within the next year if the hackers keep at it. So in other words you have a IBM 3.2GHZ Triple Core system, 512MB or RAM, with a customized ATI graphics card, running a full version of Linux. In other words, a high end, operating system wielding computer for just £275 from Amazon.co.uk with free delivery. There’s no doubt about it that once you’ve played an Xbox 360, you can’t go back to an old Xbox, let alone a PS2! The system is phenomenal, the gameplay is mindblowing and when you first get it, you just sit their, staring in wonder at it’s beautiful design. Seriously. It looks as good as it sounds. It plays better than it sounds. The menus are easy to navigate, and for once, Microsoft’s Error messages are helpful, and don’t just tell you that there’s a fatal error with your system.
I’ll be reviewing some of the games in the next few updates, so look out!
In the U.S. Dell is selling the core system for just under £190 our money ($350) yet in the U.K. it costs £210. Unfair global marketing once again.
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