Remodeled PlayStation 3 from Sony 120 GB dropped a few dress sizes and $ 100 off the price of its predecessor, the original PlayStation 3 For $ 300 you can now get a first class, BD-Live Blu-ray 1080p capable HDMI output, integrated Bluetooth and 802.11g, a 120 GB hard drive can be upgraded to Gigabit Ethernet, 7.1 channel Dolby Digital sound, and Sony incredibly powerful Behavior multiprocessing CPUs. Oh, and playing PlayStation 3.

Expensive for a games console, but a great deal for a console plus a Blu-ray Disc, the PS3 is worth the wait. Weighs about 11 pounds and measuring 12.8 inches wide and 3.86 inches high by 10.89 inches long, the PlayStation 3 is larger than the PlayStation 2, Nintendo's diminutive Wii, or Microsoft Xbox 360 Like the console, oriented vertically or horizontally. Either way, striking design of the PS3 is in the living room. PS3 runs more quietly than the Xbox 360, but is a bit stronger than the almost silent Wii. Although the device does not become too brown, the air around it tends to become hot after several hours of continuous playback.

PlayStation 3 comes in two versions. The $ 599 model has a 60 GB hard drive, 802.11b / g wireless networking and MemoryStick, SD and CompactFlash slots. The $ 499 unit omits Wi-Fi capability and slots for media cards and has a 20 GB drive. You can replace the hard disk in one version, and the supplied manual explains how to amend its own 2.5-inch Serial ATA hard drive.

The differences between the two PlayStation versions end there, serve as a Blu-ray slot drive, HDMI output, gigabit networking, four USB 2.0 and Bluetooth 2.0.

In the heart of the PlayStation 3 lies a CPU that will impress even the most hard-core PC gaming. This powerful, multicore Cell processor, jointly developed by Sony, Toshiba and IBM, runs at 3.2 GHz A RSX Reality Synthesizer graphics engine, based on Nvidia's G70 architecture, the graphics. Work with these chips are 256 high-performance XDR main memory and 256 MB of GDDR3 video memory.

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