This time it is me, unboxing my expensive but shinny PS3 I've bought today a PS3 (899 CHF), along with 2 games Resistance: fall of man (89 CHF) and Motor Storm (89 CHF) Mission Impossibles blue-ray box, the whole sequel, (89 CHF) 1 additional wireless controller (69 CHF) See the pictures below

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Next Gen Wars - The Latest Worldwide Console Sales

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Published on Saturday, 24 March 2007 17:49

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Direct from retailers all over the world, VGChart present the latest next-gen console sales:

PS3 floating point crunching eating windows/wintel machine at breakfeast

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Published on Friday, 23 March 2007 21:38

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According to Folding@ home, the PS3 raw cpu power is impressive.
Since 2000 and in less than a year on the market, it look like the Sony PS3 is 10 times more powerful than any PC. With 10 times less CPU, it process twice more TFLOPS

The S.N.F event is simple.  On Sunday Night (March. 25th 2007) everyone who wants to participate in the S.N.F event simply turn there PS3 on and start the folding program, could be anytime you want or when you goto bed, you may let the program run as long as you want but would be great if it could atleast last till 7am Monday morning,  its all up to you since anything helps. This is to see how much help we (the playstation community) can be for this program and to show them that the feature is being widely used and maybe saving lives in the process.

Team Name: " Sony PlayStation 3"  54751  Joining this team is not required you may join any team.

I will for sure order one, I just do not want to stay for hours outside shops, at the end I've made the same for the XBOX 360 

Sony PS3 Modding - Homebrew, Upgrades, Mods, and Hacks

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Published on Wednesday, 17 January 2007 23:19

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 Sony PS3 Modding - Homebrew, Upgrades, Mods, and Hacks is a blog already listing an impressive list of mods for the Playstation 3, some examples:

• MythTV for PS3 - Turn your PS3 into a PVR/TiVo
• PS2 Backups on the PS3 via Swap Magic
• Call of Duty 3 Game Save
• Install Fedora Core 5/6 with Yellow Dog Linux
• Sony and TerraSoft Sponsors PS3 Hack-a-thon
• Best Picture Quality Blu-ray Movies
• Find Other PS3 Gamers
• PS3 Video Converter and DVD to PS3 Converter
• Super Video Converter for the PS3
• Create an AVC/H.264 Video for the PS3
• Homebrew LunaVader for the PS3 - the 1st?
• XBox 360 Controller on the PS3 via Linux
• Bluetooth Keyboards
• Folding@Home

PS3 week

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Published on Sunday, 12 November 2006 17:37

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Sony has launch his PS3 in Japan yesterday (11 November - 100.000 units), it will hit USA on 17 november (400.000 units) and Europe not before March 2007. Engadget  and Gizmodo have put a LOT of video and articles online so the rest of the world can better judge the next generation console of Sony.

Engadget

Gizmodo

PS3 disassembled on video   Engadget Japanese retail PS3 unboxing   PlayStation 3 dissected, drive upgraded

Extensive PS3 Interface Walkthrough   PS3 & Wii Q&A   PS3's Charge Cable vs. Xbox 360's Charge Cable   PS3 Vs Eye Chart: Menu Hard To Read on Small HDTVs   PlayStation 3 1.10 Update Released   PS3 Timesaver Tip: HDMI Not Enabled At First   PS3 SIXAXIS Controller's Battery Is Kinda Replaceable   PlayStation 3 Media Interface HD Video   PS3 Slideshow Video: 3D Photos Are Wonderful   PS3 Media Playback: Complicated   Sony PS3 Grope: We're Still Testing...

Will I buy one? YES!
Will I resell my XBOX360? maybe as It is too limited for me  compare to the PS3

• Do it yourself drive extensions,  drive is not encrypted or locked
• No codecs restrictions very important for a media center.
• Linux, (Patches are already popping at PowerDeveloper.org)
• Less noisy

Expensive? not so much if You consider its free online service ($50 for a gold live account), a 60GB versus a 6GB (+$99 for 80Gb XBOX360), a bluray drive included (+$200 for the HD-DVDrom on the XBOX360)

200 pictures of PS3 games, console and menus

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Published on Wednesday, 29 March 2006 21:24

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Someone on flickr.com has post 200 pictures of the presentation of the PS3, some are really dark since they are pirate (It was not allowed to take any pictures duing the presentation, which has been respect by no one for our pleasure...)

Sony PS3 Specifications

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Published on Wednesday, 03 August 2005 00:00

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CPU
Cell Processor
PowerPC-base Core @3.2GHz
1 VMX vector unit per core
512KB L2 cache
7 x SPE @3.2GHz
7 x 128b 128 SIMD GPRs
7 x 256KB SRAM for SPE
* 1 of 8 SPEs reserved for redundancy
total floating point performance: 218 GFLOPS

GPU
RSX @550MHz
1.8 TFLOPS floating point performance
Full HD (up to 1080p) x 2 channels
Multi-way programmable parallel floating point shader pipelines

Sound
Dolby 5.1ch, DTS, LPCM, etc. (Cell- base processing)
Memory
256MB XDR Main RAM @3.2GHz 256MB GDDR3 VRAM @700MHz

System Bandwidth
Main RAM 25.6GB/s
VRAM 22.4GB/s
RSX 20GB/s (write) + 15GB/s (read)
SB< 2.5GB/s (write) + 2.5GB/s (read)

System Floating Point Performance
2 TFLOPS

Storage
Detachable 2.5" HDD slot x 1

I/O
USB Front x 4, Rear x 2 (USB2.0)
Memory Stick standard/Duo, PRO x 1
SD standard/mini x 1
CompactFlash (Type I, II) x 1

Communication
Ethernet (10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, 1000BASE-T) x 3 (input x 1 + output x 2)
Wi-Fi IEEE 802.11 b/g
Bluetooth 2.0 (EDR)

Controller
Bluetooth (up to 7)
USB 2.0 (wired)
Wi-Fi (PSP)
Network (over IP)

AV Output
Screen size: 480i, 480p, 720p, 1080i, 1080p
HDMI: HDMI out x 2
Analog: AV MULTI OUT x 1
Digital audio: DIGITAL OUT (OPTICAL) x 1

Disc Media
CD PlayStation CD-ROM, PlayStation 2 CD-ROM, CD-DA, CD-DA (ROM), CD-R, CD-RW, SACD, SACD Hybrid (CD layer), SACD HD, DualDisc, DualDisc (audio side), DualDisc (DVD side)
DVD: PlayStation 2 DVD-ROM, PlayStation 3 DVD-ROM, DVD-Video, DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW
Blu-ray Disc: PlayStation 3 BD-ROM, BD-Video, BD-ROM, BD-R, BD-RE

Add-on PlayStation 3 HDD will run Linux!!!

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Published on Friday, 10 June 2005 00:00

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Ken Kutaragi reveals the console's hard drive will use alternate OS, hints that it will ship separately and will come in more than one model.
Since E3, Sony Computer Entertainment president Ken Kutaragi has been calling the PlayStation 3 an "entertainment supercomputer" rather than a gaming console. Now, he's revealed a new plan to make sure that it's acknowledged as one. In an interview with Impress PC Watch, Kutaragi disclosed that he plans to install the Linux operating system on the PS3's hard disc drive (HDD) so it will be recognized as a computer, rather than a mere console.
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