Microsoft doesnt own apple only some stock.They are using G5's for the dev kits because they are faster than the other machines they normaly use.Sony has large stocks in apple as well using the G5 chip sets for "PS3 cell" dev kits as well.The G5 achitecture is the only kind that resembles the new multiproccesors for the new "cell" style consols of the next generation systems.Xbox2 will have a disadvantage though, no multi proccesing at all....american developers hate dual architecture systems for some reason, prefering overclocked processors over higher bit systems and hardcore coding(sega saturn had 3 processors and failed horribly from zero american support).Sonys PS2 uses 3 chips as well as the old ps1 chip and is under powered compared to Xbox....PS2 is around 233Mhz and 128 bit for graphics and handily outpaces anything of the same power that microsoft can come up with.The only chip in america that is similar is an apple chip, hence there move over to the G5 chip,which at a lower power say 300-500Mhz(what would be in a home market console) out paces thier own chipsets performance.

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