Recently, Sony released a new slim version of the PlayStation 3. The original PlayStation 3 was portrayed as a grand innovation in the gaming industry, especially in the graphics area, but was often criticized for its gargantuan size, weight and price. Sony tried to address these issues in their new PlayStation 3 Slim, while preserving its performance quality.
The price of a PlayStation 3 Slim is $300, while original one cost $600. The size of the PlayStation has been cut to a minimum. Its 6.8 pounds make it approximately 36 percent lighter than original. Its energy usage has also changed a sizable amount: due to a new 45nm Cell processor, the new PS3 uses 96.24 watts, instead of 206.90 watts on the original model. The highly vexing sensitive power and eject controls have been replaced with real, mechanical buttons. Now you can bitstream, Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD audio, due to the new HDMI chipset. However the Slim loses two USB ports and card readers, which were infrequently used anyway. Another negative is that there is no compatibility for PS2 games, nor can you run another Operating Server, such as Macintosh or Linux. Although the PlayStation 3 Slim has a new processor and other slight differences, they have closely identical start up times.
In comparison to its competitor, the Xbox 360 Elite, for the same price, the PlayStation 3 Slim has built-in Wi-Fi, and a high performance Blu-ray player. But in matters of online gaming, Xbox 360 with its Xbox Live has the upper hand. PlayStation 3’s PlayStation Home is still not quite at the level that Xbox Live is.
Overall, the PlayStation 3 Slim is a new and improved version of the original PlayStation 3. Its smaller lighter and cheaper, but performance-wise there were no big changes.
http://www.wired.com/reviews/product/pr_ps3_slim
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