..considering buying one On Sale -

Post #226,764 by Ashton 9/27/05 4:05:40 PM Reply	..considering buying one On Sale - what better way to toss them some sucker bait, keep 'em on the path to maybe makin it -8,000,000,000? A small price to pay ~~for England~~ for Decency and just plain Goodness.
Post #226,765 by Another Scott 9/27/05 4:09:05 PM Reply	Don't. Every XBox sale is one less sale to Sony or Nintendo or ... The XBox just needs to be good enough to keep money from going to the competition. I don't think Bill really cares how much he's losing on it at this point. If it makes Sony spend more than they want, or keeps people from sending money to Sony, then he wins even if he loses. Cheers, Scott.
Post #226,767 by inthane-chan 9/27/05 4:14:11 PM Reply	In fact, they're on the record as losing money on this one. Goal was to build share, not make money. XBox360 is supposed to be where they start raking in a profit. When somebody asks you to trade your security for freedom, it isn't your freedom they're talking about.
Post #228,816 by dws 10/9/05 10:52:03 PM Reply	Do they make decent Linux boxes? XBoxes are supposed to be pretty easy to mod to run Linux. But is it worth the effort?
Post #228,829 by broomberg 10/9/05 11:41:04 PM Reply	No Pain in the butt to convert. You may screw MS out of a $100, but it'll cost you $200, and you could have had a nicer system for the same price.
Post #228,852 by folkert 10/10/05 7:30:37 AM Reply	What about Soft-Modding. No additional cost except for time. You can still put a larger HD in, and the whole thing just works too. -- [link\|mailto:greg@gregfolkert.net\|greg], [link\|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry\|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] @ *i_wethey* SELECT * FROM scog WHERE ethics > 0;\n\n0 rows returned.

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