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PS3 Opened For Pictures
An anonymous reader writes "As all of you surely know by now, the PS3 has just been released in Japan. What you might find interesting, however, is that among those 80 000 happy PS3 owners (or self-appointed resellers) was at least one who decided it was his or her sacred mission to crack this puppy open for a peek inside. About the article, it is in Japanese. Someone who knows enough of this fabled language of wonder well enough would do well to offer some translations, although I don't really suspect that the story is the most important thing here..."
Ugh. Japanese is annoying, hah.
November 11th, the Playstation 3 was released.
People are talking a lot about the quantity initially available, etc, but the product is also gaining attention because of positive features such as the Blue Ray drive and other hardware (CELL?).
The 60GB hard drive version can be purchased, so you'll see information on it right now.
First the site will discuss all the basic information of the product, and then go into detail on each section.
1. The package is heavy.
2. Here is the list of contents in the package.
3. Here's a picture of the box open
4. Here is a list of what comes with the package.
5. Here's a picture of the back.
6. Here's a picture of the left.
7. Here's a picture of the right.
8. Here's the memory card reader.
9. You can access the HDD slot.
10. Here's the 60GB Seagate hard drive.
Note
When dissassemblnig the product, you lose the manufacturer's warranty.
The PC Watch editorial staff is not responsible for any damage that my might occur if you take apart your model. It will damage the unit.
The editors of PC Watch will not answer any questions submitted about taking apart the product.
More photos:
1. The warning seal is similar to the PS2
2. When the seal is peeled off, "VOID" becomes visible.
3. Under the warning seal is a special screw which must be removed to get the cover off.
4. When you remove the large screw, the cover can be opened.
5. The cable which is connected to the cover goes to the memory card reader.
6. Removing the case shows you the BD drive and power supply.
7. Look at the power supply. It is a direct 100V power supply. The power supply is small.
8. The baseplate on the front side of the power supply is likely for separating the wireless networking from the power supply, along with the necessary cables.
9. When the BD drive, power supply and wireless networking system is removed, you can see the motherboard seal and the heatsink.
10. The the bottom of the case is removed, you can see the huge cooling fan who is not visible from outside the case.
11. Difference angle of the cooling fan. There is approximately 16cm of contact area for the fan.
12. You can see the fins for the heatsink and cooling system.
13. The cooling fan removed.
14. The heatsink removed, you can see the cooling piping.
15. Here's the motherboard top.
16. Here's the motherboard bottom.
17. Here are for big chips. The leftmost side is probably for the PS software emulation.
18. The next chip is the graphics chipset.
19. Under the seal of the graphics chipset, we see 4 chips.
20. The graphics memory is made by Samsung
21. The right most chip is a Sony CXD2973GB.
22. Not sure what this says, but it is connected with a lot of wires.
I read the headline to the story, and then saw the pictures of the PS3. That thing looks like a flatbed scanner! Opened for Pictures indeed...
I am used to surfing sites where the pictures are the important thing
the ps3 is so beautiful inside. it makes me want to... i find it quite scary to have the ps2 on a chip. technology moves wayyy too fast and i can't find my tin foil hat!
Translation by Google
View http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHS07EFGZ3g&eurl= to see japaneses opening a PS3 with nothing more than a screwdriver !
In other news, they sell on eBay for $1400-1600.
:-)
So those are some pretty expensive pictures you're Slashdotting
I found in interesting that PS3 has compact flash and SD card slots, in addition to memory stick. Pretty cool I guess, but I would have only expected Sony's proprietary (and not that expensive anymore) memory stick.
Am I the only one on Slashdot who thinks PS3 will eventually be a huge hit? Look forward 4 years down the line, and I think this console has better chances than Xbox 360 or the Wii (which I have pre-ordered). I'm sure the 360 will eventually have HD-DVD built in BTW.
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I rarely read replies, it's my opinion and if you thought about your opinion a little more, I'm OK with that.
Hey, thanks for the circuit board pics. I just figured out where to solder the modchip!
There's already takeaparts of the US version, in english.
http://dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=4908
How do you say slashdotted in Japanese?
There are 10 kinds of people in the world. Those who understand binary and those who don't.
PLAYSTATION®3 allows any desired third-party system software to be installed on it besides its system software provided by Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. Details will be posted on this site soon.
Interesting, no? Add that to the fact that there are 3rd party memory cards supported, and no wacky media formats in the PS3's OS (its all MP3/AAC/MPEG2/MPEG4), and makes one hope, distantly, that Sony may be changing their ways...
If Jesus wants me it knows where to find me.
Found this blog article (from a few days ago), which seems to have about the same pics and a translation.
Google translation: "Memory card leader"
Is that some kind of ethnic humor?!
Bigtime Consulting - "We're the best because we cost the most"
Let my new 7-digit UID be a lesson to all - write down your passwords.
I guess it's not really real until someone takes it apart! Now I believe!
To the making of books there is no end, so let's get started
"They forgot to comment on how shiny it is. You know that shiny sells."
Well then, bald men should be leaping off the shelves then.
What I really want to know if any software PS3 emulators are out yet. I'd like to try this thing out on my Inspiron 6000 to see what all the hoopla is about. Sure, it might have to skip a frame every now and then, but I can live with that.
Dan East
Better known as 318230.
Japanese uses a topic-comment sentence structure, as opposed to subject-verb-object that we use in English.
English: I did Sally.
Japanese: About Sally, I did her.
Other cool tidbits of info regarding Japanese -
Verbs always come at the end. Like Yoda-speak.
Since verbs always come at the end, they use single syllables called particles (I think) to denote what is the subject, what is the object, etc, since those (subject/object/etc) can go anywhere in the sentence. They also use a particle for topic, which is why it's so central to their grammar.
In fact, the central focus of topic means that Japanese can quite often drop things that are sufficiently in context, even to the point that the sentence consists only of a single verb. This is similar to the following scenario -
Me: Did you go to Tokyo this summer?
You: Went.
Their language also only has a bit over 100 different sounds, and the syllable structure is almost always open-ended (i.e. ends with a vowel). Seriously, check it out - all Japanese words end in either a vowel or the letter n. They're also missing a few letters we have (like l and v - ask someone who speaks Japanese natively to say the word "love" hehe)
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b. Heat up sticker with hair dryer and take Exacto knife (any thin, very sharp knife will do) and carefully slide it between PS3 and bottom of the sticker. Work it around, be careful, and should be able to take the sticker off without damaging it (or the plastic itself).
c. When removing screws, don't go apeshit on them. Be gentle and try not to scuff the black oxidization on it. (they can then tell it was taken apart)
Yet they shipped the PS2 with standard ports (USB, IEEE1394) long before anybody else put standard ports in a console.
The PS3 is about the least proprietary of the three systems being released. It uses a standard media format, supports standard flash formats, uses USB and Bluetooth for the controller, standard 2.5" hard drives, etc. On the software side, it's capable of running a non-proprietary OS (Linux), and uses open, standard APIs (Collada and the Khronos Open* stack). On top of all that, Xenon is a pretty closed chip, while there is a ton of documentation about Cell on IBM's developerworks site, and the Linux/Cell port has been in the mainline kernel since 2.6.16.
Yeah, you can make fun of Sony for Memory Stick and Betamax, but it rings kind of hollow when you're talking about a market in which their primary competitor is using the most proprietary platform (Windows) still in common use. Even MemoryStick is a licensed format (Sandisk and Lexar make them). DirectX, SMB, NTFS, etc, are as proprietary as they come.
A deep unwavering belief is a sure sign you're missing something...
Yeah, you can make fun of Sony for Memory Stick and Betamax
And memory stick pro.
And minidisc.
And netmd.
And their non-mp3 player ipod wannabe.
And the "walkman bean".
And UMD.
And suing Lik-sang out of business.
And possible RAM price fixing.
And who can forget their exploding batteries!
Oh yeah and what about the criminal investigations for installing rootkits on you PC?
Yet they shipped the PS2 with standard ports (USB, IEEE1394)
It doesn't matter because you could not use them with standard hardware.
Who cares is a game console has USB if you can't hook up anything but sony-approved USB devices? The interface is then proprietary, regardless of the connector used.
Life is too short to proofread.
I speak Japanese and I have a few comments on your post. I edit the "Japanese in depth" newspaper column published monthly by the Daily Yomiuri (http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/features/language/200 61026TDY15001.htm -- a link to an article about particles). The author is my boss Shigekatsu Yamauchi, also author of Step Up Nihongo (which I edited) the Japanese learning system (textbooks, online study materials, videos, etc.).
> Other cool tidbits of info regarding Japanese -
> Verbs always come at the end. Like Yoda-speak.
This is particularly true in the "gaijingo" that foreigners speak with their teachers, but in actual real life it's more complicated. Yes, verbals come at the end of the predicate, but casual speech is very frequently marked by inverted sentence order. For instance, "mita yo, eiga" (I saw it, you know, the movie (we were talking about)." In polite speech (to a boss, a teacher) one wouldn't speak this way, of course.
Also, the way you've constructed your "tidbit" it sounds like you could be saying that "verbs" come at the ends of all sentences. This is most emphatically not the case. Japanese sentences can end in any of three different predicates: nominal, verbal or adjectival. "Totemo atsui desu ne" (It's very hot, isn't it?) has no "verb" in it (though the English translation has a verb because every English sentence must have a verb). Nominal predicate example: "sono hito wa kirei desu." (I consider 'kirei' and the other so-called "na-adjectives" to be nouns (I prefer to call them nominals) but that's another discussion). "That person (we both know of) is beautiful."
> Since verbs always come at the end, they use single syllables
> called particles (I think) to denote what is the subject, what
> is the object, etc, since those (subject/object/etc) can go
> anywhere in the sentence. They also use a particle for topic,
> which is why it's so central to their grammar.
Yes, they are called "particles." But there are many different kinds of particles and not all of them are single syllables. Several phrase particles are multiple syllables for instance. These go at the ends of "sentences" and impart nuance.
By using the words "subject" and "object" you are introducing into Japanese very western concepts of grammar. There is no "subject" or "object" in Japanese. These concepts are alien to Japanese as they were created in a linguistic environment where the languages being studied were all European. All European languages have subjects and objects. When linguists first started studying Japanese they asked silly questions like, "what is your 'be verb'?" "Where is the subject in this sentence?" Unfortunately, Japanese scholars didn't say, "'be verb'? We don't have one, nor do we need one!" Nor did they say, "Subject? We don't do that!" Instead, we have textbooks that say that the copula "da/desu" is the "be verb" and that "ga marks the subject, (w)o the object," etc. These are oversimplifications that obscure and make the language unnecessarily hard to learn. Particles consistently offer the most difficulty to students of Japanese (as articles are the hardest for students of English).
Your idea of calling it a "topic marker" isn't bad - but "subject" is a term you should avoid because it carries with it all sorts of context that is alien to Japanese. I assume you are speaking of the particle "wa." "Wa" means, "at least," "as for," and carries a feeling of comparison within it. I would contend that calling it a "topic marker" tends to obscure these other functions, which makes it harder to understand when and why Japanese use the particle.
Regarding "object" you must be referring to "(w)o." "O" (as it is pronounced) includes a clear nuance of selection, as among several choices. "Object" clearly lacks a connotation as it is a function of positioning in a sentence. Additionally, "o" can mark things that we wouldn't consider "objects" in European languages.
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