My OperaI'm in love.
Monday, September 8, 2008 11:52:36 AM
Ok, so I bought myself this game called "Lair", for the ps3 and my 24" lcd - and I'm not sure what I expected. I of course know how things work, and what the cell unit, the hypervisor and parallel computing is about. But that didn't stop me from getting blown away when actually seeing it in practice. Really, this is it. Flying a dragon with the wireless motion- sensitive controller. Lol!
I tested booting linux (for ppc- 64bit) on the ps3 as well yesterday - and from what I can tell, I can retire the old computer, reduce the ambient cooling noise (as well as the power requirement) to almost nothing, and basically end up with fifty times the processing power for any sort of structured computing algoritm. While we're waiting for more convenient ways to use the hypervisor (for the graphics card), I think I can live with this.
But basically what this means is that in this small box I have a gaming/media platform, as well as a general purpose OS just by a quick reboot and plugging in some wireless usb keyboard and mouse. Or, if I'm not that picky, I could use my Bluetooth keyboard on google docs through the "game-OS" browser.
But for the gods' sake, the graphics! The ridiculous amount of real time computation. How much this wipes the floor with the wii and the 360 (and yes, I have played a lot with both consoles with friends who dislike the ps3, and love the xbox, wii and so on - I honestly didn't think the games were that different), and for that price? Let's see you hook up the new graphics card on the 360 for anything else than what MS tells you to, or booting another OS underneath xbox live. No..? Not very likely, is it.
But let me take this opportunity to thank the xbox fans for buying MS's junk, and hyping it so much - because otherwise the price on the Ps3 wouldn't have been at the current price - below the actual production cost. I obviously feel bad for those who won't be able to run any of the really neat hifi things turning up over the next few years - and don't get me wrong, there are a lot of cool games on the xbox - but excuse me if I laugh when the xbox- people start to dive from the MS high.
I tested booting linux (for ppc- 64bit) on the ps3 as well yesterday - and from what I can tell, I can retire the old computer, reduce the ambient cooling noise (as well as the power requirement) to almost nothing, and basically end up with fifty times the processing power for any sort of structured computing algoritm. While we're waiting for more convenient ways to use the hypervisor (for the graphics card), I think I can live with this.
But basically what this means is that in this small box I have a gaming/media platform, as well as a general purpose OS just by a quick reboot and plugging in some wireless usb keyboard and mouse. Or, if I'm not that picky, I could use my Bluetooth keyboard on google docs through the "game-OS" browser.
But for the gods' sake, the graphics! The ridiculous amount of real time computation. How much this wipes the floor with the wii and the 360 (and yes, I have played a lot with both consoles with friends who dislike the ps3, and love the xbox, wii and so on - I honestly didn't think the games were that different), and for that price? Let's see you hook up the new graphics card on the 360 for anything else than what MS tells you to, or booting another OS underneath xbox live. No..? Not very likely, is it.
But let me take this opportunity to thank the xbox fans for buying MS's junk, and hyping it so much - because otherwise the price on the Ps3 wouldn't have been at the current price - below the actual production cost. I obviously feel bad for those who won't be able to run any of the really neat hifi things turning up over the next few years - and don't get me wrong, there are a lot of cool games on the xbox - but excuse me if I laugh when the xbox- people start to dive from the MS high.
