The reality is that the Xbox one probably has a lot in common with a modern PC but the arrival of Windows 10 isn't going to mean that you'll just be able to run Photoshop on the games console yet - if ever. The Xbox One has an 8 Core AMD CPU and GPU with a throughput of 1.3 TFLOPS. In the nine years since the PS3 was launched, "conventional" processors and GPUs have caught up and overtaken the Cell processor, and the new generation of consoles therefore have components with a more traditional provenance. The Cell was so powerful that it even found its way into Sony's professional line of equipment, notably with a stereo 3D processor at the peak of the last 3D bubble. Even the earliest demonstrations showed that the PS3 could process and output two independent HD channels at once, and this was back in 2006. This chip consisted of multiple "vector" processors that were ideal for video calculations. This relatively expensive device was able to remain current right until the end of its life cycle because it had extremely powerful video capabilities, which were almost all due to the specially designed "Cell" processor.
We've seen this capability before, actually in Sony's PS3. While this might seem of marginal interest in an era where for at least general purpose computing we're migrating towards laptops, tablets and mobile phones, it does open up the intriguing possibility that we might be able to do video editing on the gaming device.Īnd if turns out that we are able to do this, it will be a very good thing, because the there's one area where Xboxes really excel: graphics, and hence video. Plug in a keyboard and a mouse and you will have, for around $350 dollars, a powerful, compact PC. This will mean that any "universal" Windows application will run perfectly fine on the console. The graphics power of the Xbox One would make video and graphics applications fly - for only $350.įor the first time, Microsoft is going to port its flagship desktop operating system to its current game console, the Xbox One, in November.
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