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matteo2005
May 4, 2009, 07:32 AM
I was on the Xbox 360 website browsing through endless videos when i came across what is in the attached picture, notice in the 'available devices' list there is reference to a Mac pro. Make your own verdict about it.


PeterQC
May 4, 2009, 07:51 AM
They were using Power Mac G5 in the early production step, when the development machine weren't ready. Some early developement units were technically heavily modded PM G5, still with the Apple logo. Now they are using a devellopement unit looking almost exactly as the current Xbox 360.
drewsof07
May 4, 2009, 02:38 PM
And they obviously stole the Wii character idea. You expect more from MS? :rolleyes:
kymac
May 4, 2009, 02:44 PM
im sure someone somewhere at apple uses windows for something
jaw04005
May 4, 2009, 03:01 PM
I don't recognize that screen on the new Dashboard. What's it from anyway?
dejo
May 4, 2009, 03:21 PM
im sure someone somewhere at apple uses windows for something
Yeah, almost certain. Like the developers of the Windows versions of QuickTime, iTunes, and Safari.
ikermalli
May 4, 2009, 03:59 PM
Yeah, and I hear the Mac OS is also made with Windows, Microsoft makes a part of the Mac OS right?
magamo
May 4, 2009, 04:26 PM
Yeah, almost certain. Like the developers of the Windows versions of QuickTime, iTunes, and Safari.

Touché.

By the way, I fail to see why a developer of a Microsoft product shouldn't use Mac and vice versa. If I worked for Apple and were using Linux, would I be guilty?
Malfoy
May 4, 2009, 04:30 PM
Touché.

By the way, I fail to see why a developer of a Microsoft product shouldn't use Mac and vice versa. If I worked for Apple and were using Linux, would I be guilty?

Don't they use MS Visual Studio for a lot of things at MS? I don't think MS Visual studio (at least the latest version) is avail on mac.
Zombie Acorn
May 4, 2009, 04:46 PM
Don't they use MS Visual Studio for a lot of things at MS? I don't think MS Visual studio (at least the latest version) is avail on mac.

If it was I would be on my mac more often. :mad:
dejo
May 4, 2009, 04:55 PM
By the way, I fail to see why a developer of a Microsoft product shouldn't use Mac and vice versa.
And I'm pretty sure the Mac Business Unit at Microsoft, yunno the ones developing products such as Microsoft Office for Mac, use Macs. They have to.

So, it's not such a crime for a company to be seen using another's products, especially when they are producing products of their own for those "competitors". Now, if we learned that Windows 7 was being written in Xcode, we'd have a whole different situation.
neiltc13
May 4, 2009, 10:03 PM
The sales assistants at the Apple Store run Windows to activate your iPhone. I think they do it using VMWare Fusion.