Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 17th Nov 2006 22:28 UTC
Gamers lined up by the thousands early on Friday, aiming to be one of the first in the United States to buy Sony's PlayStation 3, the multimedia and video game machine that is key to the future of the beleaguered electronics and media conglomerate. Apparantly the PS3 brings world peace or eternal youth, seeing how bonkers people went.
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Of course you could do the same thing with a PC, but quiet media centre PCs are generally quite expensive, especially if you want unusual features like a HDMI port. The PS3's limited RAM could be a problem for people planning to use it as a general purpose computer, but a stripped down Linux distribution should run perfectly.
You are absolutely right. However, do we know yet how crippled Linux distros coming out for this thing are going to be?
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2005-11-16
It may be an expensive games console, but if it's as quiet as people are indicating then it could be a great media centre.
From what I've heard the large cooling fan in the PS3 is a lot quieter than the dual 60mm fans in the Xbox360. Quite impressive considering how powerful the PS3's hardware is. Although I suppose the design isn't that different to the cooling systems found in many laptops. I'm hoping that even when the CPU is used heavily it'll remain quiet enough for AV use in a living room.
Even if Blue-ray doesn't take off and Sony's software isn't much good, Linux has decent media players that support all the file formats you could want. Video recording using a Linux supported USB TV card might be a possibility, and there are large laptop hard drives available for storing 100s of hours of video, or it could always be networked to a desktop with more storage.
Of course you could do the same thing with a PC, but quiet media centre PCs are generally quite expensive, especially if you want unusual features like a HDMI port. The PS3's limited RAM could be a problem for people planning to use it as a general purpose computer, but a stripped down Linux distribution should run perfectly.
If it lives up to it's potential then I'll probably get one, I might even use it to play games once in a while...