[Joe]

I think you guys miss the point. You cant do jack shit on a console, its more useless than a Mac. Which is saying a lot!

the ability to work on 4 monitors worth of PHP or Spreadsheets or hard core porn then on the same machine be killing baddies, or racing hard core in some race sim is worth it alone.

Consoles have their place, but really the only reason I would ever own one is to open it up and see what makes it work, and mod it into a file server. Since thats all the Xbox is good for. Also you get stuck playing down sampled games that the rest of the community will get to love in top end quality. ie: Doom3

THe quality of the Xbox shots looked like ASS compared to what a 6800 can render D3 at. So you are paying to grow your quality of gaming at the bleeding freak'n edge of video technology. With a console you are just happy to use technology thats 4 years old and play the quality you are handed, and have no control over. not me thanks.