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Re: Why PS3 is the only Next Gen System

  • Subject: Re: Why PS3 is the only Next Gen System
  • From: Tim Smith <reply_in_group@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2006 20:38:03 -0800
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
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In article <2zHjh.1803$h21.576@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
 flatfish+++ <flatfish@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Dec 2006 23:02:48 +0000, Mark Kent wrote:
> 
> >
> > Mr Smith is a buffoon.  We have TVs in pretty much every room, and the
> > kid's games consoles are in their rooms too.  It will be fantastic to be
> > able to dump the PCs and just have consoles.
> 
> TV's and game consoles in every room?
> Looks like your kids will, sadly, be a chip off the old block.
> 
> No wonder you can sit on Usenet 24x7 following Roy around.
> Your kids are sitting zombified in front of the idiot box.
> 
> What a waste.

Mark is completely out of touch with what people actually want in the 
real world.  Are those HD TVs in each room (most consumers don't even 
have one HD TV yet, let along one in each room)?  If not, no need for 
Blu-Ray.  All you need is DVD.  For less than the cost of a PS3, you can 
easily put together an AMD64 system with a TV tuner, twice the RAM of 
the PS3, 7.1 surround sound, a bigger hard disk, and a decent video card 
for gaming.  That system will easily outperform the PS3 for general 
purpose computing tasks (you know, the kind of things you do on a 
computer, as opposed to on a gaming console).

-- 
--Tim Smith

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