Read this article here.

Amazing isn’t it? I didn’t know that a Play Station 3(PS3) can outperform a high end PC! And using Linux of course helped a lot, but still I didn’t know that the hardware the PS3 had is so damn powerful. How about that Cellchip which IBM makes for the Sony PS3? Low power, yet packs quite a punch. And it is getting smaller and cooler! Man, I think, sometimes technology goes so fast, I get so confused with what is happening in the technology sector. Not to say I am not interested, but it seems that it is getting harder and harder to keep up with Technology. I remembered an article a long time ago about the PS2 which was banned from selling to North Korea or Iraq because it was powerful enough to track missiles or something like that. I was shocked! A missile tracking system right in my PS2!! However, I never managed to track any missiles with my PS2 in those years I own it though.

One interesting quote from the article:

“Overall, a single PS3 performs better than the highest-end desktops available and compares to as many as 25 nodes of an IBM Blue Gene supercomputer,” Khanna noted.

Anyways, if you are a coder, perhaps you can create your very own code to power the PS3 and use it as your computer. And when your boss asks you what the hell you are doing on your PS3, you tell him WORK! And you tell you that it is much faster than do the work on your PS3 than it is on his PC!

If the PS3 is so powerful, I am pretty sure that it should be more expensive. But compared to a PC, a game console should be much cheaper in order to make it more attractive to consumers. So how does Sony make money from it? Do they make money from selling the games but selling the game console at a loss? I guess for most people, buying the PS3 is to play games, they never expected someone to hack the system to make it run Linux. I wonder if everyone does that, will Sony be forced to make their consoles less powerful? Will they make use of conventional computer parts to make their console just like X-Box?