PS3 In The Office?
Well, since there aren't very many good games out yet for the PlayStation3, I guess they had to find something else to do with it besides Folding At Home and watching Blu-ray movies...
IT|Redux has announced that it will demonstrate how Sony's PS3 can be used as a personal computer during the Office 2.0 Conference in San Francisco, CA from September 5-7. The console will be used to display the conference's agenda and special announcements transmitted from the interwebs via WiFi.
“Installing Linux and Firefox on the PS3 enables Sony customers to not only enjoy games and entertainment in the living room but also take advantage of some of the Web browser-based office productivity applications available online today,” said Oliver Marks, senior manager, Web Portal for Sony Computer Entertainment America. “The Office 2.0 conference is a great opportunity for Sony to showcase the PS3 system’s computing power and productivity capabilities.”
Sure, the Cell processor is incredibly powerful, and Blu-ray discs can hold tons of information, and it's all outputted in shiny happy high definition, but is that really necessary for PowerPoint presentations? One thing's for sure — if there was a PS3 in my office, there wouldn't be a whole lot of work getting done!
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Posted to Hot Stuff, Miscellany, Video Games on 6 September 2007
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I'm not sure Sony should really be promoting this. Isn't the PS3 still a loss leader? Something like $200 a box?
I'm not sure how the business model is supposed to work if you promote the system to a bunch of non-gamers who won't buy enough games to offset the initial loss.
Any productivity perks it might offer would be destroyed by the time spent with Super Stardust.
Yeahhhh, this is pretty much marketing BS even if you take it at face value. I installed Linux on my PS3, and it's honestly not a very good desktop Linux machine, mostly because of the extremely limited memory. It's fine as a text mode command line box, but as soon as you try to do anything crazy like run KDE on it starts bogging. I can't even imagine trying to run OpenOffice on it.
And of course you don't get access to the godlike floating point capabilities of the CPEs without doing special coding.