DoK: you have a single fan and two items to cool. How do you propose packaging to accomplish this withouth paralellization? the fan pulls hot air from heat sync, and pushes it though a tunnel in the power supply where it picks up more heat and then exits out the back.Noted the seaeld connectione between power supply and the rest of the chasis.

I bet you can dry your hair with this sucker!

I have asked a friend of mine about the fan. He says that the design forces so much air out of the unit that the fan is designed to accommodate the heat generated by both the PSU and the rest of the chipset. The fan is almost non existent in sound and moves a shocking amount of air through the back due to an intuitive air flow form through the conduit.

That being said, I still ant to see a thermal image of the system at maximum as well.

Totally agree with you, the space is used extremely well, no useless air pockets at all, the wii is the same.

The 360 is a shock to see, it's guts resemble that of a PC, so many air pockets, so many places dead hot air can sit and cause damage...the PC has a reason and it's because there meant to be upgradeable, but the 360 has none, bad design over all.

Give the 360 hardware to sony engineers and they'll shrink that mofo to a small and compact machine with sufficient and efficient cooling. XD

Yeah, its really nice to see. Though I do share your concerns about the fan, I trust that they have a nice factor of safety on the exhaust system. It goes agaisnt traditional means, but you dont traditionally put that much hardware in such a small area. I want one so bad now just to take it apart haha, but I've had my pS3 80gb and like, it never gets hot. I play games for 10 hours straight and its still cool as can be. I just dont see any reason to get another.

the Phat PS3 power supply didn't have a fan nor any any air being blown through it, in fact it sat on the top of the motherboard just next to the BD drive, while the heat sink and fan were located underneath the motherboard.

So knowing this, I just find it odd that they went this parallel method, but like I said, the thermal properties of the power supply must be high enough so that they are not affected by it's own heat nor affected by the extra heat coming from the heart sink, while at the same time maintaining the component life equal to that of the power supply found in the old PS3, which didn't have a fan blowing air through it.

Why don't they take out the power unit? They could reduce the size of the fan and save even more space

Why would they do that? The PS3 needs to remain a high calibur piece of hardware. Until they can get current PS2 slim sizes theres no reason to remove the power supply. The spacial design is so elegant I have been staring at it for like 20 minutes at work and a couple of the other engineers are now circulating the link to look at haha.

They'll do it once they can get the power supply to a reasonable size to make it external, because if they were to do it right now it'll look like a 360 power brick, and I'm guessing Sony didn't want that negativity, so they went with an all in one design,which in my opinion is the best way to do things.

So when that fan goes out, you better fix it!

It's no longer 'teh Cell'
It's 'teh Fan'