For people who don't know alot about the PS3 here are 5 good reasons to buy it:
-An estimated 2x better graphics than the xbox 360 and an estimated 16x better graphics than the Wii.
-All controllers are wireless.
-Up to four contollers(FINALLY!).
-It has a Blu-ray player that usually costs $1000 alone.
-It has a 20gb and a 60gb version.
Specs:
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CPU
3.2 GHz Cell processor: one PowerPC-based "Power Processing Element" and seven 3.2 GHz Synergistic Processing Elements (SPEs). The PPE has a 512 KB L2 cache and one VMX (AltiVec) vector unit. Each of the eight SPEs is a RISC processor with 128-bit 128 SIMD GPRs and superscalar functions. Each SPE has 256 KB of L1 cache/software-addressable 4.8 GHz SRAM, called the "Local Store". Sony has sent out a number of development kits with the Cell chip clocked at 2.8 Ghz. There are now rumours circulating that the Cell chip will remain at 2.8 Ghz, contrary to the initial frequency of 3.2 Ghz which Sony first announced.
Only seven SPEs are active; the eighth is redundant, to improve yield. If one of the eight has a manufacturing defect, it is disabled without rendering the entire unit defective. Additionally, one of the seven active SPEs is reserved for use by the system's OS, leaving six SPEs directly available to applications.
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GPU
Custom RSX or "Reality Synthesizer" design co-developed by NVIDIA and Sony:
* Based on NVIDIA NV47 architecture
* Clocked at 550 MHz
* 128-bit DDR memory interface
* 211.2 GFLOPS programmable (384 FLOPS per clock)
* 1.8 TFLOPS
* Multi-way programmable parallel floating point shader pipelines
* 136 shader operations per clock
* 74.8 billion shader operations per second (100 billion with CPU)
* 24 2D texture lookups per clock
* 90 billion Dot Product operations per second with CPU
* 1.1 billion vertices per second
* 128-bit pixel precision offers rendering of scenes with High dynamic range rendering
* Full high definition output (up to and including 1080p)
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Memory
Total 512 MB, split into:
* 256 MB Rambus XDR DRAM clocked at CPU die speed (3.2 GHz)
* 256 MB GDDR3 VRAM clocked at 700 MHz
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Bandwidth
* 204.8 GB/s Cell Element Interconnect Bus (Theoretical peak performance)
* Cell FlexIO Bus: 35 GB/s outbound, 25 GB/s inbound (7 outbound and 5 inbound 1Byte wide channels operating at 5 GHz) (effective bandwidth typically 50-80% of total)
* 51.2 GB/s SPE to local store
* Experimental Sustained bandwidth for some SPE-to-SPE DMA transfers - 78 to 197 GB/s.
* 25.6 GB/s to Main Ram XDR DRAM: 64 bits × 3.2 GHz / 8 bits to a byte
* 22.4 GB/s to GDDR3 VRAM: 128 bits × 700 MHz × 2 accesses per clock cycle (one per edge) / 8 bits to a byte
* RSX 20 GB/s (write), 15 GB/s (read)
* System Bus (separate from XIO controller) 2.5 GB/s write and 2.5 GB/s read
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Audio/Video output
Multiple AV outputs
* Composite
* S-Video
* Component video (output up to and including 1080p)
* HDMI 1.3 port (Digital video output; 60 GB model only)
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Sound
* S/PDIF optical output for digital audio up to 7.1 sound
* Dolby TrueHD[38] (Blu-Ray movies only[citation needed]; compatible sound equipment required[citation needed])
* DTS-HD
* LPCM (DSP functionality handled by the Cell processor)
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Storage
* Blu-ray Disc: PlayStation 3 BD-ROM, BD-Video, BD-R, BD-RE. 2x (9.0 MB/s)
* DVD: PlayStation 2 DVD-ROM, DVD-Video, DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW. 8x (11.0 MB/s max)
* CD: PlayStation CD-ROM, PlayStation 2 CD-ROM, CD-DA, CD-DA (ROM), CD-R, CD-RW. 24x (3.5 MB/s max)
* SACD: SACD Hybrid (CD layer) SACD HD. 2x
* Hard Drive: Pre-Installed 20 GB / 60 GB (depending on package), 2.5", detachable/upgradeable, with Linux pre-installed.
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Flash Memory Devices
(60 GB model only)
* Memory Stick
* CompactFlash
* SD/MMC
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Communications
* One Gigabit At Sony's 2006 Electronic Entertainment Expo press conference, a new PlayStation 3 controller design was revealed. The design was superficially very similar to a wireless version of the DualShock 2 controller, as opposed to the wireless "boomerang" prototype design showcased a year earlier. The "boomerang" design was abandoned overall because of poor reaction from the public, so Sony decided to continue to go with the style that worked for them in the past.[citation needed]
* USB 2.0 (x4)
* Bluetooth 2.0
* Wi-Fi (60 GB model only)
o IEEE 802.11b/g
Other things:
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Controller
Some minor refinements have also been made to the controller. In place of the "Analog" button and light found on previous PlayStation controllers, a button with the PlayStation logo has been added to the center of the controller face. Some of the buttons have been raised from their previous versions, to enhance their pressure-sensitive analogue functionality. In particular, the L2 and R2 shoulder buttons have been redesigned to allow for a much deeper depression range, making them more trigger like. The analogue sticks also have a wider range of motion and finer analogue sensitivity—at 10-bit accuracy, an improvement upon the 8-bit accuracy of the previous models. Ethernet PortThe PlayStation 3 controller features a USB mini-B connector terminal at the top of the controller for charging the internal battery through USB, and also for wired play. There are four numbered LED indicators, to identify and distinguish multiple connected wireless controllers.
The final PlayStation 3 controller. Its design is nearly identical to that of the DualShock.
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The final PlayStation 3 controller. Its design is nearly identical to that of the DualShock.
In addition to the basic design, the other major feature revealed at the press conference was the ability to sense both rotational orientation and translational acceleration. Although it is not yet known how many games will use this feature, games that do (such as Warhawk) will come with an option to turn motion sensing off. It has been stated by Tetsuya Nomura that at least one incarnation of Final Fantasy XIII will make use of the motion sensitive controller.
Sony has stated that because of the motion sensors, the rumble capability of the previous controllers will not be included, reasoning that the vibration interferes with motion-sensing. Haptics developer Immersion Corporation (which successfully sued Sony)expressed skepticism of Sony's rationale, and has since introduced tilt and motion-sensing which filters out vibration in software.
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Physical characteristics
Weight
* 5 kg (approx.)
* (11 lbs.) (approx.)
Dimensions
* 9.8 cm × 32.5 cm × 27.4 cm (approx.)
* (3.9 in. × 12.8 in. × 10.8 in.) (approx.)
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TEIN
My current saveings for the PS3 is: $476.00 out of $600 !!!
