[solved]XBOX 360: WHY wasn't it x86?[NEW QUESTION]How hard would it be for MS to emulate/go BC with original Xbox games?

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Stinky said:

I see, the kentsfield quad did come out in 2006 my mistake. But still, it was a two x dual-core package. As for the G5 vs Xeon, I don't see how that relates to the G4 which came out in 99.

You brought up the older PowerPC processors.
The point was, they were never *always* faster than x86, heck they aren't even comparible to the cheap console CPU's due to some very large basic differences that impacts performance.

Besides, the only time the G4 was faster than the Tualatin and AMD's Thunderbird was when software took advantage of the Velocity Engine (AltiVec) in the G4, Intel has long since left IBM in the dust in regards to performance. - There is a reason Apple left the world of IBM and got into bed with Intel afterall.