one thing people have to realize is bluray is just a slower loading disc, the file sizes are much bigger, playing is fast, everything else is great, and fast, but loading is slower, it sucks but that is just the way it is, the ps3 loades very fast for bluray file, people also forget 8 x 3.2, on processor speed, also each processor has its own memory also, which sony uses a faster more efficient memory, sony still has 1 processor not in use, yet, in the next 2 years we will see what this machine is really capable of doing, killzone 2 was a little piece.

Silly people. The 45nm process shrink has no bearing on the production chips used in the PS3. The article\information has been taken out of context and wrongly made to imply the PS3 Slim will have benefits in this area over the PS3 fat. Believe it or not the "CELL" wasn't designed for the PS3 originally and there are versions of it that are faster than the one used in the PS3, this is where the 45nm process shrink will be useful.

Furthermore, 45nm production is nothing clever. Intel have been selling x86 processors for the PC market that are 45nm for over a year.

So in essence what I'm saying your all stupid to cluth at straws and by doing so you show the complete lack of insight that is expected of you all as raving fanboys. To blindly believe such tosh goes hand in hand with the whole ethos of "Teh cEll"...

After I read the article ;) I have this to say. (didn't need to read article to make above comment since I know what can and can't be done in terms of refining the design of games consoles and that components can't be just "swapped" for faster parts and not introduce problems on the scale of mass recalls)

Come on have you guys even read the article. The journalist in question is obviously a total fucktard and doesn't have the first idea of what he's talking about. He even decides to imply that the RSX might have been ditched for a similar newer graphics chip!!!! lol...yeah very likely...not!

Not to mention that he makes those claims about "performance improvements" but in the ensuing quotes we only hear about improvements in terms of effeciency and power reduction, which are one and the same thing.

Think about it ;)

Suckered in, everytime.

I think they switched to a bulk CMOS process (name IIRC) which is cheaper to produce.

We're very discrete and we keep things on the down low, right?

http://www.thefunkstore.com/FunkStoreBookClub/March2005/BOOK-OnTheDownLow.jpg

^I hardly ever read the articles, I just read the posts to get the gist of things. But yeah, don't insult people and call people fanboys.. it doesn't go well.

The cell is fine as is, the 45nm process just makes it more efficient power wise, potentially cheaper but not significantly faster or even faster at all. the last cell revision from 90nm didn't provide a speed increase, did it?

If anything should've been made faster, it's the 2x BR drive they should have sped up. imo

left4dead only if sony give us access to the RSX.

but it should be able to install under wine.

yes it can play donkey kong country! =D.

i have it =)

Up next. RSX is upgraded to SLI GTX285.

you can't instal linux on ps3 slim so no.

^Yep so without that no homebrew and emulators.