It does have lots of benefits. I'll be honest at first I hated everything about it, until I slept over at a friends place over a long weekend and spent some quality time with it. I mean really IT GIVES THE END USER A LOT! Free online, uster upgradable SATA harddrives, REGION FREE, great multimedia (DiVX) storage and playback, Wallpaper (ok thats standard but its still pretty darn cool), Web browser, Blu-ray, the ability to install Linux on it (a big plus for me, Im a Linux fan). Its good, it really is. I now see why Sony were so freaking over confident, unfortunately it got overboard and turned people (including me, initially) off.








