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It's suddenly out of my price range
He assembled a custom machine from a sheet of parts MS has greenlisted and installed the Microsoft development environment onto that.Im too stupid to understand what you are saying.
Could you rephrase that in layman's terms
He assembled a custom machine from a sheet of parts MS has greenlisted and installed the Microsoft development environment onto that.
The XBox, GC and DC DevKits looked like PCs: http://images.wikia.com/vgsales/images/e/ef/Sixth_gen_dev_kits.pngDon't most devkits look like badass versions of the consoles themselves?
DaE is either mental or then he's the ultimate troll; if MS removes the auction, we know for real that it IS a real devkit.
DaE is either mental or then he's the ultimate troll; if MS removes the auction, we know for real that it IS a real devkit.
This is what I was thinking. Maybe dude has inside info on exactly what components are included, and he just built this rig himself. That would be the easiest thing to do and would probably present the fewest legal obstacles. His auction would probably be fraudulent though, no?Why isnt anyone smart enough to realize he built it to ms specs and got the xdk? He didn't have to get the whole kit from ms.
Alpha kits are mostly PC/small server blade like. Final kits sometimes look like the retail unit(PSX/360/etc)I would just like to say: thank you Neogaf for making it to page 3 of this topic without posting the This Gun B Good gif of the guy dancing while folding the chair down.
Personally I'm most interested in the controller and ports. Don't most devkits look like badass versions of the consoles themselves? Unless the bid is just for the development software (like Source SDK on Steam)
Rösti;40931748 said:Shame Brad Smith (Microsoft general counsel, legal) isn't in office today, could forward it to him. He's probably seen it though.
The next week shall be interesting to see how this story develops and if someone will actually receive that "SDK", or if will be ordered down. If it is indeed real, it may severely damage the Xbox department and Microsoft as whole. Also, should this equipment come to the wrong hands, I wonder if this may force them to disclose details about Durango earlier than planned.
Well, nonetheless a thrilling decision by DaE, but I wonder who represents him in this case, he mentioned lawyers on Twitter.
Why would people want to bid for this? I'm confused as to what the main attraction is.
Why would you want to ruin the fun so soon? It's obvious this guy is either off his rocker or completely full of shit, may as well let the auction commence to see what's actually inside.
Is he legally bound to anything by calling it a Durango dev kit? Does Microsoft officially recognise that name in such a way?
Is he legally bound to anything by calling it a Durango dev kit? Does Microsoft officially recognise that name in such a way?
Are you talking from the perspective of if he is bound to deliver something to the seller ?
If so, I can't believe how he would could be beholden to much outside of delivering something looking like the picture, seeing as how there is no basis of comparison of what a "Durango" actually is.
If you're talking about the Durango "leak" as a whole, then that would seem odd as the Initial reaction to the specs seems to have been lukewarm at best.It would be funny if this was just viral marketing catering to their core audience by MS.
Like I said in the last thread, this is what the XBox 360 Alpha kits looked like :
Talk about a complete turn around
Yep. I always thought that was crazy.The Xbox 360 was a Mac Pro once?
The Xbox 360 was a Mac Pro once?
One of my contact, who got access to Durango dev kits since a moment now, described these to me as a server, a big, apparently black, tower, with a kinect port in the back. So maybe the picture is legit ?
The Xbox 360 was a Mac Pro once?
Anybody have any luck locating the case online? It's a nondescript case, but it's unique enough that I've had a hard time finding one like it. If somebody were to find an exact match, just imagine how many more bogus listings would show up on eBay. Maybe Microsoft was smart enough to get exclusive on the cases or they're not made anymore.
But even if it is, so what? There are no specs, showing anything off, it's just a PC case.
He assembled a custom machine from a sheet of parts MS has greenlisted and installed the Microsoft development environment onto that.
So basically we only need to know what's inside, build our own rig and we'll overkill next gen games? Understood.
Probably not really. An early dev kit like this will mainly be for the software running on it (the simulator, compilers, debuggers), it doesn't need to meet performance. It's gotta be enough to build an application and debug it, performance tuning can come after actual dev kits with hardware start to arrive.
ebay picture looks to be flipped judging by the usb logos
corrected
something written on the side
Is there really much point in just buying a kit that's probably all off the shelf PC parts?
is that a lock on the case?
Is there really much point in just buying a kit that's probably all off the shelf PC parts?
Is there really much point in just buying a kit that's probably all off the shelf PC parts?
Dilli666 guessed the model of the case in the other thread about this devkit. Thanks to him.Anybody have any luck locating the case online? It's a nondescript case, but it's unique enough that I've had a hard time finding one like it. If somebody were to find an exact match, just imagine how many more bogus listings would show up on eBay. Maybe Microsoft was smart enough to get exclusive on the cases or they're not made anymore.
A pic of the Supermicro SC745:The shots are showing a Supermicro case, usually used for big
server mainboards (Xeon etc) with redundant power supply and
hot-swapable disks. Probably the SC-745.
The fans in those cases are loud as hell, btw
ebay picture looks to be flipped judging by the usb logos
corrected
something written on the side