sc94597 said:
Loud_Hot_White_Box said:
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. |
Um you are talking about years from now right? By that time the ps3 will probably be about less than $300 and the screen would probably be around $30 to make. The sell isn't as good as you think. Yes for number crunching its good, but operating systems run better on an out of order processor than an in order one. You should cut the ps3s clock speed in half to see how much performance it is capable of. There is very little ram in the ps3, and in the future I could see 2gb of ram being what the mainstream pc has. The pcs are already far more capable than the ps3 at running operating systems and it will just be more capable in the future. Also FishyJoe is talking about linux not being able to support alot of software. I say use wine , but the ps3 has so little ram it wouldn't be worth it.
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More ram accessible when using linux would be cheap, though.
Agreed that Linux doens't have the programs of windows...but linux laptops still sell well.
The value here is that your PS3 is *portable* and has a screen, so you can take it around like a laptop while you travel and still word process, surf the net, hunt porn, and whatever else you wanna do.
