A plea for Folding@Home on Xbox 360

It sounds like a simple idea, but it’s one with a high potential for greatness. All the folks at Microsoft have to do is adapt Folding@Home to Xbox 360 and make the console just as cool as the PlayStation 3 (in terms of saving lives, at least).

Well, Adam Frucci over at Gizmodo has one of the best write-ups we’ve seen so far, pleading with Microsoft to join the Folding@Home craze by adapting the 360 to do the same as the PS3. It would become more of a contest between fanboys to see who could make the most progress in saving lives.

In his impassioned plea, he writes,

While 99.999 percent of fanboy fights end up with everyone being a loser… this battle of the consoles would benefit everyone. Xbox users and PS3 users could compete to see who could complete more Work Units faster, determining which console is superior. And at the end of the day, it doesn’t really matter who wins, because it would allow for many, many more people to put what is a dormant computer when not in use into an Alzheimer’s curing machine. And heck, since there are many times more Xboxes out there than there are PS3s, you’ll start at an advantage and this thing could really take off.

He’s right about that though. There ARE more Xbox units out across the world than PS3 units. As for whether or not the combined might of the Xbox Legion can process more stuff than the PS3 legion, we’ll leave that up to you. What’s important is that it saves lives, and Xboxes can probably do just as admirably in that regard as PS3s.

Via Gizmodo

It sounds like a simple idea, but it’s one with a high potential for greatness. All the folks at Microsoft have to do is adapt Folding@Home to Xbox 360 and make the console just as cool as the PlayStation 3 (in terms of saving lives, at least).

Well, Adam Frucci over at Gizmodo has one of the best write-ups we’ve seen so far, pleading with Microsoft to join the Folding@Home craze by adapting the 360 to do the same as the PS3. It would become more of a contest between fanboys to see who could make the most progress in saving lives.

In his impassioned plea, he writes,

While 99.999 percent of fanboy fights end up with everyone being a loser… this battle of the consoles would benefit everyone. Xbox users and PS3 users could compete to see who could complete more Work Units faster, determining which console is superior. And at the end of the day, it doesn’t really matter who wins, because it would allow for many, many more people to put what is a dormant computer when not in use into an Alzheimer’s curing machine. And heck, since there are many times more Xboxes out there than there are PS3s, you’ll start at an advantage and this thing could really take off.

He’s right about that though. There ARE more Xbox units out across the world than PS3 units. As for whether or not the combined might of the Xbox Legion can process more stuff than the PS3 legion, we’ll leave that up to you. What’s important is that it saves lives, and Xboxes can probably do just as admirably in that regard as PS3s.

Via Gizmodo