4D, showcased in The Getaway 3...

...Oh wait.

it does, it levitates my manhood when I look at it.

Funny how these threads get responses....

People are no better then sheep sometimes, lots of people still believe in stupid things just because they 'heard' about it. But Sony did a very good job the last decade and it shows. (pr-wise)

Oh well, the playstation propaganda doesn't hurt anyone unlike other...

The cell is probably more powerful than your processor. Other than that your pc might be ahead. Although i doubt that.. although you might have 4-8gigs of ram. You don't have ram that comes even near xdr ram :p

In other words. The ps3 is a extremely powerful machine due to the way it was built and optimised for certain uses.

^I'm running an i7 processor. there's no way that a 3 year old thing can be faster than something produced this year. ask a real tech person to get the details.

it really looks like a lot of people bought Sony's PR..

And what % of these so called "casual gamers" have PCs with an i7, Phenom II X4?

My guess is not many, so the Cell will be faster than their processors.

Strange family you have.. my family thinks it's an expensive piece of toy... Why buy it when you can have cheaper alternatives to play videogames...

The cell is built differently. Your cpu is a general purpose one while the cell is not. Your cpu may well not be as good as the cell. I'm not saying it isn't but it may well not be.

It might just be you who are too sceptic :p or would like to think  better of that which you've spent a small fortune on.

This is not only true, but the main selling point of the PS3. Normal, "casual" gamers, people who likes games, but not enough to talk or get informed about them, have this image of the PS3 being more powerful.
This is why they buy it at close numbers to the x360, despite the price difference. This is clever marketing and a thing they should stress more and more, cause allows them an edge till they are capable of levelling the price.
If or when that happens, this perception(PS3>x360) can assist the PS3 selling more than x360, despite producing the same graphics and having more or less the same games.

or you're too blinded by the PR. think about the process of technological advance. can something produced three years ago possibly be more advanced than something produced this year?

better yet, think about the results of your wonderful cell processor so far. anything produced so far that is "absolutely mindblowing" that goes beyond something like crysis, or empire total war? if you mention killzone 2, which runs at 720p and 30fps maximum, then *laugh*.

try to get past the PR, my friend. think about the realities of technology.