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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 am used to surfing sites where the pictures are the important thing
Translation by Google
View http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHS07EFGZ3g&eurl= to see japaneses opening a PS3 with nothing more than a screwdriver !
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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
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.
Google translation: "Memory card leader"
Is that some kind of ethnic humor?!
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Let my new 7-digit UID be a lesson to all - write down your passwords.
"Srashdotted" maybe?
Report to Zonk for re-education mister! Sony is an evil company and the PS3 is going to be a total failure and Zonk will make sure of that.
I can see the Slashdot offices later on today...
Zonk: Hey Hemos, I saw that PS3 submission you put up earlier today, about opening the case.
Hemos: Yeah, I thought it was pretty cool that it can be opened so easily and the hard drive upgraded.
Zonk: Yeah... about that...
Hemos: Hmm?
Zonk: *bashes Hemos' head in with a Swingline stapler*
Hemos: Grngh!
"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.
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