Game_boy on 25 July 2007
Of course it will - the PS3 is far behind what computers of the same price can do.
http://www.geekpatrol.ca/2006/11/playstation-3-performance/ estimates the Cell Broadband Engine's performance for normal tasks (not using the very-hard-to-program-for SPEs) is slightly worse than the Power Mac G5, itself a superseded core.
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