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Old May 19th, 2005, 11:11 AM
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Originally Posted by Captain Code
MS *says* they'll be releasing "more powerful" dev kits in the future. I don't know what that really means, like if they'll produce their own G5 based machines for development.
Well it's quite simple, the ATI GPU in the XBox 360 isn't out for PC/Mac yet, which impacts developers more so than the main CPU. I believe the biggest difference is Shader Model 3.0 which prior ATI chips did not support, hence the need for PowerMac G5's with Nvidia's 6800 for the initial dev kit.
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