[geeks] Xbox questions

[Brian Hechinger]

some non-computer geek friend of mine was talking about how great the Xbox was
going to be (and my snide remark of course was that it was going to crash all
the time *G*) and i was just curious if anyone knew any technical details about
it.

the PS2 has some sexy sounding hardware in it, maybe not the fastest CPU, but
big sexy graphics hardware and fat pipes between CPU/memory/video ala SGI.
it seems like a very well designed system.

the Xbox has almost no detail that i've been able to find other than it has a
733Mhz CPU (which they make a big deal out of, proving yet again that they
don't truely understand how all this stuff works) and NVIDIA gfx hardware.
but is it just a PC mobo with low transfer speeds between CPU/mem/vid or is
it some custom hardware deal?

anyone know? i'm kinda interested.

-brian