[qaiszero]

I want to buy a ps3 probably by a weeks time and really despise the look of the new slim ps3, i just seem to like the old piano black fat ones much better, so anyone know any shops/online sites etc where I can pickup a nice ps3 fat console bundle?! (anything with modern warfare 2 works also! :D) thanks people~

[Black-Adder]

Currys - Shop for PS3 Console - Sony 80gb Console with Little Big Planet and InFamous

Reserve and collect only.

[psikey]

Originally Posted by PeBe

Currys - Shop for PS3 Console - Sony 80gb Console with Little Big Planet and InFamous

Reserve and collect only.

Any reason why someone would want this when you can get a 120GB PS3 Slim plus game for a similar price? Do you loose something with the slim (other than size/weight )?

[AnthonyG]

Originally Posted by psikey

Any reason why someone would want this when you can get a 120GB PS3 Slim plus game for a similar price? Do you loose something with the slim (other than size/weight )?

It *can* have very annoying high pitched fans.

The phats if it has noisy fans are deep and much less irritating.

[AaronW]

You can also install linux on the older PS3s

[psikey]

Originally Posted by AaronW

You can also install linux on the older PS3s

Didn't realise they dropped Linux support. Have used/played with it when I had an original 60GB PS3 but not a deal breaker for me as I don't use now.

[philreid]

Any idea why they dropped the Linux support?

When I used it, I found the drive partitioning thing a bit annoying - why would you want to allocate just 10Gb to one OS and 310Gb to the other OS?

Bizarre.

[AnthonyG]

Originally Posted by philreid

Any idea why they dropped the Linux support?

The slim was a major and drastic cost cutting redesign. The linux support needed some hardware feature present on the motherboard that Sony removed from the slim to save money.