PS3 Hardware

So, the Playstation 3’s “Cell” processors are, basically, 64-bit PowerPC chips, similar to the ones in Apple Macs before 2006. What this, apparently, means is that it’s quite easy to port a new operating system to it. In fact, someone’s already done it.

Unlike with the Xbox, it appears to be a case of just writing a new bootloader to the hard drive; Sony provide an option in the menu to do just that.

Of course, it’s probably not worth £400+; it’s apparently a 3.2GHz chip, which is pretty impressive (it probably works out at rather faster than a 3.2GHz Intel or AMD processor, for a start), but I’d rather spend my money on hardware that I could rely upon conforming to some kind of standard. Maybe when they’re going on eBay for £40…