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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: dybdahl who wrote (54892)	1/5/2001 4:35:45 PM
From: DiViT	Respond to of 74651

The fan is how they are going to make the pig fly. ;-)

To: dybdahl who wrote (54892)	1/5/2001 4:43:24 PM
From: DiViT	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Silent PC... home1.swipnet.se

To: dybdahl who wrote (54892)	1/5/2001 5:04:43 PM
From: Dave	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74651

The Xbox has a fan right now, according to the recently published pictures, but don't you believe that this fan is removed upon shipment? How can they remove the fan? They're going to ship with a 733 MHz CPU. It will require either a fan, or a liquid nitrogen cooling system. I will laugh mao, if the Xbox takes more than 30 seconds to start. The way Microsoft worked around the slow boot time on the WebTV DISH box was simply never to let you turn it off. When you hit the Off button, the screen goes black, but an active black video signal is always being sent out. While the WebTV is turned off, the hard drive spins noisily every hour or so, so you really can't use it in your bedroom. I would hope that they come up with a better workaround for slow Windows boot times on XBox. But it is undeniably a problem, and any solution will be suboptimal. Dave

To: dybdahl who wrote (54892)	1/5/2001 6:00:22 PM
From: DiViT	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

"I mean, a fan would really be something that stops people from buying it" People seem to be buying the Playstation 2, which appears to include TWO fans... psxmedia.ign.com Did you know the Sony is adding a hard drive to the PS2? Seagate lands PS2 hard-drive contract By Michael Kanellos Staff Writer, CNET News.com January 5, 2001, 1:20 p.m. PT Seagate Technology has landed the contract to become the primary provider of hard drives for Sony's PlayStation 2 game console... news.cnet.com