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Same thing here as for the Nintendo 64 article. How do you feel about the Nintendo Gamecube?
List of specs---

Central processing unit

Name: "Gekko"
Producer: IBM
Core Base: PowerPC 750CXe, 43-mm² die (modified PowerPC G3 750 RISC with about 50 new instructions)
Manufacturing Process: 180 nanometer IBM copper-wire technology
Clock Frequency: 485 MHz
CPU Capacity: 1125 Dmips (Dhrystone 2.1)
Internal Data Precision:
32-bit Integer
64-bit Floating-point, usable as 2x32-bit SIMD
External Bus:
1.3 gigabyte/second peak bandwidth
32-bit address space
64-bit data bus; 162 MHz clock
Internal Cache:
L1: instruction 64KB, data 32KB (8 way)
L2: 256KB (2 way)

[edit]Graphics processing unit

Name: "Flipper"
Producer: ArtX/Nintendo (ArtX was acquired by ATI Technologies in 2000 and is now a part of ATI.)
Manufacturing Process: 180 nanometer NEC embedded DRAM-compatible process
Clock Frequency: 162 MHz
Embedded Frame Buffer:
Approximately 2 megabytes in capacity
Sustainable latency of 6.2 nanoseconds
RAM type is 1T-SRAM
Embedded Texture Cache:
Approximately 1 megabyte in capacity, allowing 6 megabytes worth of uncompressed textures to be stored using S3TC.
Sustainable latency of 6.2 nanoseconds
RAM type is 1T-SRAM
Texture Read Bandwidth: 10.4 gigabytes/second (at peak)
Main Memory Bandwidth: 2.6 gigabytes/second (at peak)
Fill Rate: 648 megapixels/second
Pixel Depth:
24-bit RGB / RGBA
24-bit Z-buffer
Image Processing Functions:
Hardware 3-line flicker filter
Resolution: 640x480 interlaced or progressive scan (with select games)

possibly the most powerful system...fun too..and underrated.

yeah, it is not quite as powerful as teh PS2 is in terms of RAM-CPU-GPU bandwith, but the Processor is faster. If only the graphics supported hi-def.... oh well.

Power means nothing when it runs smoothly and looks better. Its how you use the power you have...not how much of it you have..I mean Ive seen games lag on systems that I think it was perfect dark..lags..but games like Gears of War dont..and gars of war is heavy on physics and textures.

Really? I read from several sources that the highest resolution is 480p, but mostly 480i. I have never seen a 720p or higher res, and we have a tv that supports up to 1080p. jack>>Actually, power does matter. games for teh gamecube, if it was possible to play on the N64, would lag like heck, and be terrible. I think they should have gone with an AMD AThlon Processor or a Intel Pentium M, or P4 instead of an IBM Power PC G3 based.

it even says at the bottom of that thing that the supported resolutions are as high as 640x480 Interlaces, and Progressive with some games.

Okaaay, that looks like a bunch of jibberish, but I like the GameCube.

lol yeah, the basics are-- \
CPU-IBM PowerPC Gekko 485mhz
MAIN RAM-24MB 1T-SRAM 8nanosecond access time
Graphics-ATi 'FLIPPER' Graphics Proccessor (@162mHz) adn Sound processor
Video RAM-2MB 1T-SRAM
Texture memory-1mb
BACKUP RAM-16mb DRAM

I still don't know what that means. Ah well. Doesn't matter.

my favorite game that i have for the gc is Fire Emblem path of radiance.

not at all, that is your opinion and your entitleed to it. I like it, because we dont have any game systems besides nintendo ones, except for a PS2 my parents dont let us play

What are your favorie games?

THe greatest deception..

thanks god i didnt buy it as the only good games thata arrived on this powerfull machine were from the company.. or were just remakes like the "twin snakes" (and even though it had better graphics it really sucked in some matters.. like voice dubbing.. they left out some soundtracks .. etc).

If you are a hardcore nintendo fan maybe you would have liked it.. but the lack of variety speaking about games.. really made this console lose the console war.

It had some great third party games...