Of course?  Of course why?
Why do you make these little statements against the PS3, but never explain yourself?

I don't mind someone who hates a system if they give reasonable explanations for why they do, as much as I can't stand someone who just chimes in against a system with no real contributions to discussion.

What I meant to say was, of course Xbox 360 is going to beat Playstation 3 this year. Maybe Playstation 3 will catch up, or even beat Xbox 360 next year. It could have potential. I own one too. It should get better in the future. PS: I thought nobody would reply to my post in these dead threads. I'm surprised.

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wow, I know many people don't bother to read the posts that they reply to, but you didn't even read the TITLE.

This is about performance at folding@home, not sales performance. While the latter will be a 360 win for sure this year, the former is what the discussion is focused on, and could really be either way (we'll probably never find out, I think MS would prefer let the games speak for themselves rather than get into a folding competition with Sony)

I don't think we can ever properly compare the two consoles, or for that matter, ps3 vs 360 vs wintel vs gpu. As the ars technica article and the folding@home pages themselves state, the folding@home client is specifically programmed to maximize the strengths of the different processors, because they are all good for "something".

I think the analogy used in the ars technica article explains it quite well, really. If we were really to compare them, we would have to run the same tests for all cpus/gpus and it would be no surprise to see areas where one processor smokes the other, and vice-versa. But what's the point in speculating if this will never happen? Even if the 360 gets around to folding, it would most likely be running software optimized for its processors, and chances are they will be different from that of the PS3. So in the end, the comparison would not be valid anyhow, and I doubt Stanford would go out of their way to create benchmarking software to pit the two consoles against each other - they are more busy trying to, you know, cure incurable diseases and all that. They have better things to do with their time!

Finally, what's the point of having one console fold better than the other? I want my console for games!

(double post, sorry)