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James Bentley

YouTuber spends over $6,000 to make a solid aluminium Xbox like the 2000s prototype, and it 'operates like any other Xbox because that's exactly what it is'

The Xbox brand, from its name to its design language, has always felt to me like it was made up of a mix of early 2000s spikey hair and what people found cool in the 90s. Nothing quite exemplifies this more than the great big silver Xbox prototype shown off just before the release of Sony's mega-popular PlayStation 2.

One YouTuber, Macho Nacho Productions (via Hackaday), is such a big fan of this aesthetic that they've decided to build their own version, complete with a custom-milled aluminium chassis and the original Xbox internals, albeit with some light upgrades to bring it slightly more into the modern age..

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