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Xbox Micro not a PS3 Slim

Xbox Micro not a PS3 Slim

By: Daniel Chubb | August 16, 2009 | 2 Comments

The gaming industry is been on fire with price cut and new console rumors of late, this includes rumors of an Xbox 360 Elite price cut and the Sony PS3 Slim.

So what about an Xbox 360 slim? Well that seems very unlikely at this time, but we can show you some photos of an Xbox slim (aka Xbox Micro).

Found via Engadget, the so-called “Xbox Micro” was inspired by ghostavel’s awesome mini. You can see the photos and full details in the forums at xbox-scene.com.

The modders goal was to make an Xbox that measured only 1-inch thick. Specs include a 320 GB 2.5″ HDD, v1.4 motherboard, TSOP flashed with iND-BIOS, and a PW-200-V PSU.

This new version may make the original Xbox look sleek again, but it’s no PS3 Slim.

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  • paul mayoh

    IBM announced a new Cell processor last year:

    https://www-01.ibm.com/chips/techlib/techlib.nsf/techdocs/7A77CCDF14FE70D5852575CA0074E8ED

    The most significant enhancement to the chip was to add an on chip DDR2 interface. This makes me suspect that the PS3 slim and lite will include the option to increase RAM beyond the PS3′s rather meagre 0.5 Gb. This enhancement would be very important for PS3 Linux users. Currently the PS3 struggles to support a GUI. The XBox 360 has 1 Gb of onchip RAM and so I think that it would be much easier to port XBOX 360 games to a PS3 with more RAM.

  • Rimmer

    The only problem with that is that the PS3 slim has supposedly been locked to prevent running Linux on it. Plus the only the developer’s version of the 360 has 1GB of ram, to allow them to run debugging software whilst maximising the full 512MB for the games.