Warren Nagourney wrote:
Well, the lack of 2D and 3D graphics acceleration has been confirmed on the YDL website (I think recently - I don't remember its being in the FAQ earlier). I think this situation is laughable - why would anyone spend this money on a machine with such lame graphics? For this price, one can get a fully functional PC with a supported graphics card (something I would do if I didn't have strong objections to X86)
It depends on what you're doing. If you want to play with a cell processor to see if your application will work on an IBM BladeCenter (which costs tens of thousands of dollars) that happens to have the cell processor and no video -- then testing key parts of your calculation on a $600 PS3 is a *very* good deal. Granted that this is a small niche, but it is an exciting tool for the scientific computing world, and will probably really help to sell this highly unusual chip.
If I were to buy a PS3 for my home, it would need a fully-functional and accelerated X-server. But, at the $600 price-point in my living room, it's really competing with the Mac Mini. :-)
I guess the main point of this message is that while the desktop is the most visible part of the computing world, it's only a small part of picture. What's laughable on the desktop may be quite practical elsewhere -- and the reverse is certainly true!
-Luke
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