Higher cosole price argument works if it is artificially high.Ex. Wii, Ipod

[max power]

outlawauron said:

max power said:
A supercomputer with Blu-Ray and a massive hard drive, for $400?

First of all, hard drives are about $80-90 for a terabyte these days. I'm not sure I'd call 40GB "massive."
Second, blu-ray, yeah that's about $80 for a drive.

And supercomputer? Is that a joke? Maybe it would have been a supercomputer a few decades ago (I'm pretty sure many modern cell phones would be too), but it's pretty weak compared to the standard fare you can buy at Dell.com, and I don't think they sell supercomputers.

Stop being arrogant. PS3s are used by many universities in the US for servers, supercomputers, etc.

And there is no 40GB PS3.

 

The key to your post is the 's' after PS3.  Yes, you could make a supercomputer out of multiple PS3's, but you could probably do that with enough NES's if you were so inclined. And for every ONE place that does it with PS3's, there are dozens or hundreds more that do it with Intel or AMD hardware that you could run in your desktop or laptop.

 

Fact of the matter is, calling an 80GB or 160GB (SORRY) hard drive "massive," and a $400 piece of consumer electronics a "supercomputer," is absurd.  Do you seriously disagree?