[kupoartist]

Originally posted by fantasywave
Win XP also costs 500 bucks which I can buy 2 Xboxes already!!!

... do you buy on the black market only?

as for voice communication in UC making the X-Box the best thing ever:

1. Not everyone has the kind of connection that can support streaming audio. a tiny proportion of global internet users have broadband, so X-Box live is full of a very select bunch.
2. UT2003 probably doesn't come with voice communication as standard, because there are about 10 different voice communication utilities for games that are already out there.
3. Microphones for the X-Box are an extra. Many PCs come with microphones. they're pretty poo, but what the hey!
4. There may be certain people on x-box live that I really don't care to talk to. The added strain of silencing them may cause me to have a major anuyerism, or subject me to repetative strain injury

and drivers actually squeeze more performance out of hardware. a decent PC will rarely fail over and over again. (I do not have a decent PC then )