Xie said:Nice that they tell you up front it's not a gaming console and instead of "super computer". I don't understand the bash of Nintendo who is sticking to the gaming consoles play games only way of things. If I wanted a media center I would buy/build a computer, if I wanted a game console I would buy a game console, not a "super computer". The fact that the PS3 will someone run a Linux OS for show is enough to turn me off. What happend to gaming?
Xie said:Nice that they tell you up front it's not a gaming console and instead of "super computer". I don't understand the bash of Nintendo who is sticking to the gaming consoles play games only way of things. If I wanted a media center I would buy/build a computer, if I wanted a game console I would buy a game console, not a "super computer". The fact that the PS3 will someone run a Linux OS for show is enough to turn me off. What happend to gaming?
Seriously man...this is getting old.Grandmaster said:Here we go again
Xie said:I would like to apologize for posting in these threads.
Anyhoo I do find it interesting they are going to get a Linux distro on the HD. I did find it rather confusing though. They stated they will have a drive bay and won't be including a HD with the console as anything they put would be to small. Does this mean they are going to be selling HD's seperate and you'll be able to choose your size w/ Linux pre-installed? If so how much extra are they going to tack onto the price of these HD's? Also will they be making public the distro for folks that would like to install it on a HD they already have? Will that be possible?
Xie said:I would like to apologize for posting in these threads.
Anyhoo I do find it interesting they are going to get a Linux distro on the HD. I did find it rather confusing though. They stated they will have a drive bay and won't be including a HD with the console as anything they put would be to small. Does this mean they are going to be selling HD's seperate and you'll be able to choose your size w/ Linux pre-installed? If so how much extra are they going to tack onto the price of these HD's? Also will they be making public the distro for folks that would like to install it on a HD they already have? Will that be possible?
Well including it would drive up console cost, touchy as it's already going to be a "loss leader". Having folks buy it secound hand will most likely make it prices a bit more then your run of the mill HD on the store shelf as they will use it to recover some of the cost they are losing on the console, I would assume anyways. I'm a bit interested what distro they will be porting to the cell, and who will be doing the porting?Grandmaster said:It seems like Sony still hasn't decided...first they say they aren't sure about including a HD, and now with this they want to include a Linux distro which means they will probably need to include the HD. In the end, they'll probably choose whatever costs the least to make...
hehe.Grandmaster said:Here we go again