Loud_Hot_White_Box on 09 June 2008
| sc94597 said: THe ps3 sucks at using linux. This is because it's CPu uses inorder processing which is pretty primitive. The last pc cpu to use in-order processing was the original pentium. SO you should just cut it's clock speed in half. Then you have that small amount of memory compared to pcs which bottlenecks it. This is using the core without the spus btw. You are also talking about years down the line when the ps3 will be even more outclassed by pcs. the most I would pay for it would be $300. |
$300? For a portable PS3 with a screen to play on? Ok...
Yeah, currently PS3 doesn't allow linux to access the SPUs at all, i think, which is part of the problem there. The PS3 can get better at using Linux. That improvement would be a (DUH) no-brainer before releasing a laptop.
IBM is building blades and supercomputers with Cell/PPC combined chip clusters. The shit owns. More will probably have to be done to get the PS3 version of Linux to take advantage, but not too big a deal.
$300...way, way low, and most people would compute things way differently I think.
