OS Xbox Pro: Get Use Out of Your Old Xbox

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OS Xbox Pro: Get Use Out of Your Old Xbox

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Nick Mahar

Nov 25, 2009

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Everyone has seen a Hackintosh, but this one is just too cool to miss. With the case of an old Xbox console, and as much power as a $4,500 Mac Pro, the specs on this thing are crazy: 2.93GHz Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550s paired with an NVIDIA GeForce 9800GT card, 8GB of RAM, a 16GB SSD, and four traditional hard disk drives (one each to boot Windows 7 and OS X) plus two 500GB 7,200rpm drives in a RAID0 array for video editing.

It took Will Urbina only $1,500 to build his OS Xbox Pro - this of course does not include manual labor, which for this project is plenty expensive. I must say I'm amazed and would love to get my hands on one of these!

-NM

[Engadget]