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Breaking Down the Dropping Parts Cost for Sony's PS3
will_die writes "The people at iSuppli have taken apart an October 2008 version of the PlayStation 3 to create a bill of materials, along with providing a comparison to original PS3. The article provides information about the changes Sony has made. One of the big ones was that the hardware has gone from costing $690.23 to the current price of $448.73. This was done using a combination of removing parts (currently 2,820 vs. the original 4,048), cutting the cost of the CPU ($46.46 vs. $64.40), and cutting the cost of the graphics processor to $58.01 from $83.17."
ahahaha +1 funny, I think (in b4 offtopic)
Karma is for whores
I've experimented with /. alot in the last two years. In fact the more I posted the more I found that more or less everyone ignored me. By that I mean I got a +1 for the majority of my posts, and then later a +2 automatically for some reason, presumably because I'd posted past a certain qouta.
I got a -1 troll once -- for reasons I can't fathom -- and I probably should have gotten a -1 asshole for my last post (I'd just gotten home from the bar, and had been debating with Liberterians -- always puts me in a bad mood :), although I was completely right (aren't we always on /. ?). In the end I got just a regular +1.
At the end of the day though when I got a +5 it was completely by surprise. So I just ignore everyone now. I ignore the moderation (because it seems to have very little connection with whats actually posted), and I ignore the scores attributed to my posts. I try and read as low as I can based on the time I have (ie: setting the filter to +2 / +1, etc).
I found from time to time that what I found most rewarding in /. was when I posted something that I put some time into, and someone responed to THAT comment with obviously some good feedback. We almost always got +1s but at least there was a real exchange going on. Thats why I kinda hang out on reddit more these days anyways. It beats the pants off of the competitive / liberterian / physicist / kill your nearest intellectual competition / i hate young people who don't know what mainframes are / i hate you old people who can't figure out why CP/M is dead / etc / etc.
It doesn't help that this is a thread about game consoles. I really feel I should stop reading gaming blogs altogether due to the sheer undiluted anger and retard that rivals the worst /b/.
I noticed that I always get mod points the first thing after I get back from holidays.