Posts tagged Windows 7
OS Xbox Pro is the hottest hackintosh ever
Nov 27th
Warning: some NSFW lyrics on the music in the video above.
What do you get when you combine an old Xbox with OS X and some Mac Pro level hardware?This monstrosity. Built by Will Urbina, the OS Xbox Pro is a hackintosh casemodded into an original Xbox dev kit, with some crazy hardware under the hood, including a pair of 2.93GHz Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550s, an NVIDIA GeForce 9800GT card, 8GB of RAM, an 16GB solid state drive, and four traditional hard drives — one boots Windows 7, the other one does OS X (Snow Leopard, we believe — he bought a copy retail), a Ubuntu install in there somewhere, and two other sweet hard drives for video editing.
And here’s the wacky thing: Total material cost of the system is under $1500. That, combined with the video above, almost makes me want to spend a month of weekends trying to do something like this myself (aside from, you know, fitting it into a dev kit Xbox thing — although fitting it into an old Macintosh might be a fun build, too). At any rate, awesome build for sure.
Windows 7 for $30.00
Nov 18th
It’s true! A few of Microsoft online resellers are selling a special student deal of $29.99. Surprised? Shouldn’t be! After all the hoopla of people getting angry over Windows Vista, the economy, and the way windows profit sharing has been decreasing and rising, who wouldn’t see this coming? One of the places that are doing these deals are win741.
While different online stores are selling Windows 7 at $30. Microsoft itself is doing something special itself with a three computer for a $150 deal.