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Article: Gamers will sing praises of new Xbox
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- November 26, 2005
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The most interesting, and most anticipated, computer for the 2005
holiday season isn't often thought of as a computer at all, and it
isn't made by a computer-hardware company. It's the Xbox 360 game
machine, and it's made by the world's biggest software company,
Microsoft.
This second edition of the Xbox, which went on sale Tuesday, is
both more capable and more refined than the original model. In fact,
the Xbox 360 is the most powerful computer ever sold specifically for
gaming.
Not only that, but the Xbox 360 is meant to be a multimedia hub.
Like earlier game consoles, it can play CDs and DVDs. Like the
original Xbox, the new model can connect to the Internet to allow
multiplayer ...