X-Box Computer

[Spikesoldier]

What stops a person from removing the board from an X-box, slapping it in a case, and hooking up their tv as a monitor, and using it as a PC?

I'm guessing the BIOS.

 

[Wingznut]

Mostly because that wouldn't work.

 

[MilkPowderR]

Because TV's could never put out high quality, high Resolutions like the computer monitors can i.e. 1600x1200, 2048x1536. Unless you got a Plasma TV, LOL TV sucks.

 

[Another]

What the point of having a Xbox in a case and used as a computer if it's unable to run any application except games?

 

[Spikesoldier]

I only said remove the board. But add in your own Partitioned, Pre Formatted Hard drive of your favorite partition type of your choice, and see what happens. Of course this would all crash and burn since you can't put in a keyboard. But I heard in that article here at Anandtech that the Xbox is in fact USB capable. Try a USB keyboard? Or does the Xbox have a proprietary keyboard out for sale?

 

[Woodchuck101]

Theres not gonna be a keyboard for the xbox for at least a year - microsoft are trying very hard <not> to make it look even slightly like a PC. You're completely forgetting the fact that although it's made largely by intel and nvidia, there's a lot of proprietary hardware floating around. You wouldnt be able to get any drivers to use it as a PC - the graphics card is NOT a ge-force3, the processor is only approximately a pentium 3 (yes, less cache, but its still closer to P3 than to celeron) the motherboard is NOT an n-force -the n-force is an xbox spinoff. It's designed not to access normal hard drives - just as normal PCs cannot (yet) access the Xbox hard drive. The PS2 is closer to being a PC - Keyboard and mouse available, as well as a linux kernel about to be released...