OT: PS3 (was Re: More ePay madness) - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

16 Nov 2006

 --- jim stephens <jwstephens at msm.umr.edu> wrote: 

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 I personally would spend it on a house on the bay
 out here in LA
 or such, and spend the extra $$ to get a PS-III,
 though I have no
 plans to get one now.

 The lines outside Fry's have been around since
 Tuesday according to
 some guys I talked to there today, I guess they go
 on sale tomorrow.

 I'd just like one of the Cell processors, forget t he
...
  game, to play with,
 and a linux distro to run on it.

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 jim

LOL. Bwahahahahaha!

You'd be *very* lucky to get one.

Only 84,000 units were sold in Japan on
Saturday (100,000 were originally promised)
and now recent comments from industry
analysts suggest that only 100,000 to 150,000
units will be available at launch (originally
Sony promised 400,000).
Sony's original target was to ship 2 million
by the end of December and 6 million by the
end of March. They are looking like they will
miss both targets at present.

As for The Cell, I believe only 7 of the 8 cores
will be fully functional on most machines, 
unless Sony fixed the reliability issue.

Regards,
Andrew B
aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk