The new PS3 slim just arrived at my house yesterday, and I was immediatly impressed. I owned a launch day 60GB PS3, and loved that machine, and have about 20+ games. I sold the 60GB PS3 when I saw leaked chinease pictures. On with the review!
Upon opening the Amazon box for the PS3 slim, I immediatly was taken back by the retro packaging, notably the new "old" logo, PlayStation 3 logo. Nice refresh from the copycat Spiderman 3 font, which I was very tired of, and was originally dissapointed they changed to that font in the first place. I am an old school playstation fan from the SNES CD days in Nintendo Power. Bought an original Playstation back in the day in 1996 too. Where you had to get your Twisted Metal fix with the machine upside down.
Case Design:
I love the new PS3, the case design is fantastic. The plastic feels much more solid that the clear acrilyc of the original PS3. There is no door to break off for the card ports. It doesn't weigh 11 pounds either! It is also very stable laying flat on the entertainment center. It does not feel cheap at all. I love the new fingerprint free finish. The new non touch buttons are much better in my opinion, they give you some feedback that the button was pressed. Very nice. The power cable is also the smaller "laptop style" 2 wire cable. No external power brick to hide like 360 or PS2 slim either. I'm glad they made the system a little deeper to accomadate an internal power supply.
Overall Case design compared to original PS3 design: 9/10 Very good
Really that is the only difference realistically from the old PS3 and the new Slim.
Bottom line:
If you do not develop programs for the Cell architecture, Linux support is not really necessary. Also the Card reader slots were hardly ever used, and two USB ports are perfectly fine. I've heard reports of the BD-Rom being slower in the Slim vs Phat. However I didn't notice anything, but I wasn't timing load times either. I find the reports of the drive being slower suspect. I doubt the drive is the reason since I can't believe it is anything but a 2X drive just like the old one.
I would recommend the new PS3 Slim for everyone except the most hardcore 1337 gamers out there that have tons of stuff hooked up to their PS3 and are trolling message boards from their PS3 running linux on their 24" Monitor. LOL
But seriously, this PS3 is very good. I would recommend the Slim over the 80GB old version, if you are struggling with a decision. If you are casual, don't buy a used 60GB PS3, buy a new Slim.
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