The PS3 isn’t able to take full advantage of the speeds that an SSD provides. I have a 250gb SSD in mine since I got it for a good price at the time. It’s faster than the 5400rpm drive I had in my PS3, but you’re likely better off with a HDD that has 7200rpm. 3. The new Xbox 360 slim pulled 0.6W compared to over 2W for the older 360s while doing nothing more than being plugged in. Idle power is roughly 75% of what it was with the Jasper Xbox 360 and load Correction, 7:05 PM ET: Supercomputer projects needed the original PS3, not the PS3 Slim, because Sony had removed Linux support from the console in response to hacks — which later led to a Which is better PS3 slim or original? The PS3 slim consumes at about half the rate of the original PS3. Since the PS3 slim consumes less power, there is lesser heat to dissipate. And because the PS3 is cooler, it doesn't need to be cooled to much with fans; resulting in less noise. Another change is the bigger hard drive. I have the original slim PS3 and my disc drive got jammed. It can take discs ok and even successfully run the game/movie, but ejecting it is a pain. I eventually upgraded the hard drive, so I just download digital games. Which is my preferred medium anyways. PS2 Original vs. PS2 Slim Disc Tray Clearly, for Sony to thin out the fat PS2 by such a drastic margin, there must have been significant changes made. And there were. Give the announced pricing of the Slim, I don’t imagine that it will go for any less than $500 at launch. $600 seems like a bridge too far, and Sony is allergic to pricing anything that high Bangin' new compact body houses all the power of the original. A beefier 120-GB hard drive is still a breeze to swap out. Overall, runs quieter than previous PS3 iterations. .

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