The one thing the PS3 and the Dreamcast have in common!

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- The Cell processor and PS3 is being bought by scientists to mimic the human brain or research blackholes. The Cell is a pretty special very powerful general purpose processor.

That's just it: The Cell is not a good general purpose processor. It does some things amazingly well while it's not so great at others. For scientific research where pure number-crunching is the goal, it excels.

As a general purpose processor, the Core 2 Duo has it beat. Now that's a good general purpose processor.

- A 130 dollar PC Blu-Ray drive without a PC is pretty useless. You also need a casing, motherboard, RAM, CPU, graphics card, harddrive, likely Windows, mouse, keyboard, etc and probably a monitor and speakers. It will be more expensive and will not be a real PS3 replacement at all, something you comfortably use to watch movies and play games on the couch in the living room.

The high-end PS3 is $500. For roughly $100-150 more, I can put together a gaming PC that will annihilate the PS3 in every way, shape, and form. It will perform office tasks, run Photoshop, Illustrator, browse the internet, and do almost anything I might require of it. It will also run Crysis at medium-high settings, something the PS3 could only dream of doing. I know this because right now, I'm scouting out deals to build a new rig for gaming.

And don't bring up monitor and speakers. After all, without a television, the PS3 isn't much fucking good to anyone, is it?