Sony wasn't telling lies, the PS3 will be a computer :P:P!!! But I'm spanish and I won't have it till may or august... who knows...

i wonder.....could ppl run windows XP, or Mac, or other OS's on Linux?...like emulating them?

t first i thought this was cool, then i realized, why? why would i want this? the ps3 doesnt have enough ram, and i could just use my comp, which everyone who buys a ps3 has. sure it would be a cool novelty, but how often do you use your media center pc in your living room to really do anything but watch movies, tv, and browse the web (maybe, if you have a hd-tv because other wise you wont see squat)? playing games in the living room? you got to be kidding, finding a place to put your mouse and your keyboard. its alot more efficient to just use you comp.

you're *****ing retarded. A CALCULATOR is still a REAL computer.

i ment computer games. you need a flat surface for you mouse, and same with your keyboard. the living room is great for console games, but for pc games, you need a desk.

The only thing I want to know is will it play HomeBrew games

(SNES, NES, GES, MAME, ROMs, etc...) ?

Pues yo no pienso esperar tanto:

te dice algo Gear of WARS!!!!! Y la Pro es mucho mejor!!!

ps3 vs. 360+

http://www.gamebrink.com/forums/showthread.php?t+11711

(Hay tantas visitas que esta algo colapsado)

The Cell could also be used for 3D calculations, shading, etc. AFAIK the famous Getaway PS3 demo used the Cell for 3D, and not the GPU! (For that its development began when in early plans the PS3 would have used 2-3 Cells only, without a full-featured GPU.) And it looked awesome. I don't know who would develop a Cell-based OpenGL acceleration, though. Also, this way you can't use all of available Cell-power for other tasks.

So how do you restrict an OS that is owned by an open community by definition? SONY, being a commercial entity, must have some restrictions in mind, otherwise profitability will drop.

First of all, you restrict the "third party" OS such that it does not compete with the utilization you keep in mind (i.e. no access to gpu etc.). Due to open community nature, some people will certainly try to bypass it, but no problem, because due to architecture of the CELL processor, as long as you control the emulation shell (most possibly integrated in the bootloader) you control the kernel itself, you can fight with the "unwanted" instructions via firmware updates!



Do you remember PS2 linux?

Through the use of virtualization Sony stays in complete control over what hardware we have access to. Through firmware updates they can change what access we got, even disallowing the ability to run linux on it.



They are obviously restricting the use of the blu-ray disc to avoid pirating (i guess, or maybe avoid people from figuring out too much of the game disc security).



Once you can change the code that controls the virtual machines you have basically cracked the PS3.

hye.. i live in japan... got a 20gb ps3 in my room... 60gb is good.. but i only need the 20gb interface since the hdisk used is only normal 2.5 inch hdisk(got an extra 80gb disk from my former laptop...).. managed to buy both of them.. but i sold it(60gb) on auction for $900..



most ps2 games play great on ps3... video n audio quality increased but not on a few games such as gt4(kotaku.com stated a few more games but i dont have them to run a test..)... i'll see if ubuntu and/or fedora core works on ps3... mayb i'll also try hacked version of tiger(if i have the time..) so.. stay tuned...

Hoo the fu ck said PS3 has low ram ????? are u ***** in retarded wat u thot 256 RAM ment only 256 RAM no u dip sh it the ps3 has 7 spes includin powerPC prossesr all using this so called 256 RAM u must be on crak is the ram was this low MGS4 would never run on PS3 i had 512 RAM and uped that up to 1 gig it makes a BIG as diff in the way a game runs lern u dip shi ts COMMON SENSE 256 RAM HAHAHHAHA !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Uhh, ok I think you are saying 512 of ram is stupid, im not sure. Linux doesnt use nearly as much mem as Windows. You can run Gnome on a surprisingly small amount, and FCE , etc, on even less.