Why "impossible"

Klefmung · Post by **Klefmung** » Sat Aug 12, 2006 12:16 pm

We all know now that the XBox is a perfectly possible system to make portable-note the two XBXps in existance. But, beforehand, most of us remember it being "impossible." so, why was it "impossible?" What made it so inplausible that it was impossible?

atari2600a · Post by **atari2600a** » Sat Aug 12, 2006 12:19 pm

The Hard Drive?

Post by **Skyone** » Sat Aug 12, 2006 1:20 pm

atari2600a wrote:The Hard Drive?

...I know a hard drive is so hard to run on batteries it takes like a 'hole 79 amps.

I really have no clue why people think it's so hard. Maybe because it requires a variety of voltages? Even then, it's not too hard. Maybe size? Maybe fragility?

Sword_Gun · Post by **Sword_Gun** » Sat Aug 12, 2006 1:25 pm

Oh I know I know.

Its so hard, becuase Micro$soft made it.

Klefmung · Post by **Klefmung** » Sat Aug 12, 2006 1:35 pm

holy, 79 amps? O_O How were these things done?

Post by **Gamelver** » Sat Aug 12, 2006 2:52 pm

it doesn't take 79A

.....anyway, it was thought to be extremely hard, not impossible. It was simply that the required work to get it small enough was, well, a lot, and it made most portablizers shy away from it. Dkap01 and that other guy who made one simply had more work to do to portablize it and get it all small enough to use.

Klefmung · Post by **Klefmung** » Sat Aug 12, 2006 2:54 pm

hmm, I need advice for these things.What methods are used to make them smaller? I know you can chip it and use a laptop hardrive.

Post by **Sparkfist** » Sat Aug 12, 2006 3:09 pm

Sword_Gun wrote:Oh I know I know.

Its so hard, becuase Micro$soft made it.

Lets also remember the Xbox is really a computer, and to date no one has made a portable PC. So if PC =! portablizible, it seems logical to think the same of the Xbox.

Klefmung · Post by **Klefmung** » Sat Aug 12, 2006 3:13 pm

MGDp, mate.

atari2600a · Post by **atari2600a** » Sat Aug 12, 2006 3:14 pm

Hm, gee, I wonder that this plastic rectangle on my lap in which I'm inputing data into is called?

Krepticor · Post by **Krepticor** » Sat Aug 12, 2006 4:05 pm

fact is that people were INTIMIDATED by the XBOX and to a person who has little experience with a soldering iron (and to most people a few years is it and on a cosmic scale is barely a fart in the water)

This intimidation set people in a state of fear of the unknown and thereby, the people immediatly claimed it "impossible"

Fact is, with the right amount of money and time, nothing is impossible

So everyone go out, get a job, and make your own XBOXp

Klefmung · Post by **Klefmung** » Sat Aug 12, 2006 4:19 pm

Alright, but without the job. <_< I have a few bucks coming, and just a few parts off the 'net to reach negative voltages and what not. I don't think my brother is taking that to college. *glares* I have to get rid of a few clients by actually finishing the portables first.

Post by **Sparkfist** » Sat Aug 12, 2006 6:07 pm

Krepticor wrote:Fact is, with the right amount of money and time, nothing is impossible

You mean it's possbile to make a portable PS3?

Klefmung wrote:MGDp, mate.

That's really more akeen to a Shuttle PC then a portable. As it lacks a screen and a self-contained power source.

Post by **Skyone** » Sat Aug 12, 2006 8:18 pm

Gamelver wrote:it doesn't take 79A ......

I think he was being sarcastic.

Klefmung · Post by **Klefmung** » Sat Aug 12, 2006 8:21 pm

You were referring to yourself as "he." freak. <_<