Who got their PS3 bricked by the 2.41 update?

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Did 2.41 brick your PS3??

  • Yes, mine is now bricked!!!

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Nope, mine still works fine!

    Votes: 60 100.0%
  • Total voters
    60
Solid Fro
Yeah. Anyone who has ever taken a computer class in high school should know that the architecture between x86 and something like Cell and Xenon are quite different.
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Which is why I cannot get a Windows emulator for Yellow Dog Linux (yet) to turn a PS3 into a full-fledge home PC that my wife can use. Well, that and last I heard Linux is still not given full access to the graphics accelerator.

But the x86 vs Cell system is still the biggest hurdle to overcome on that front.
 
Does anyone know when we can expect Cell chips to be purchasable individually and put into cell designed motherboards. I know some current blade servers use them but im talking about for home computing.

Robin
 
H3rmaN
Well actually you can.....

However it runs, VERY, VERY slow because of the different architectures.
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I get the feeling that is a bit too slow for my wife to still play her Sims.
 
Robin.
Does anyone know when we can expect Cell chips to be purchasable individually and put into cell designed motherboards. I know some current blade servers use them but im talking about for home computing.

Robin
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Probably never, because the CELL is based on the Power Architecture which has been around since the late 1980's....ergo if we were ever going to get the Power architecture at home we would have had it by now.

I think we'll have the x86 and x64 architectures in the home PC for a long time to come! Mainly due to the fact that Windows (the most widely used OS in the world) uses x86 and x64, so to make it run on CELL would require a MAJOR overhaul of Windows which Microsoft wont want to do.

They prefer to just add stuff to their original code, as do most developers.
 
H3rmaN
Probably never, because the CELL is based on the Power Architecture which has been around since the late 1980's....ergo if we were ever going to get the Power architecture at home we would have had it by now.

I think we'll have the x86 and x64 architectures in the home PC for a long time to come! Mainly due to the fact that Windows (the most widely used OS in the world) uses x86 and x64, so to make it run on CELL would require a MAJOR overhaul of Windows which Microsoft wont want to do.

They prefer to just add stuff to their original code, as do most developers.
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Just out of curiosity how does IBM get their cell blade servers to run then? Surely they also use windows and have to be compatible with it...

Robin
 
Linux is compatible with Cell, so I presume Linux/Unix.
 
Robin.
Just out of curiosity how does IBM get their cell blade servers to run then? Surely they also use windows and have to be compatible with it...

Robin
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Windows is CRAP!! Thats the nicest way I can say that within the AUP of the forums!

Linux & Unix are used for servers & mainframes, not that %£*&$ that Micro$haft make!
 
And the poll is now 50-0.

I believe that at this point it is safe to say that this firmware update is pretty brick, and worry, free.
 
Robin.
Just out of curiosity how does IBM get their cell blade servers to run then? Surely they also use windows and have to be compatible with it...

Robin
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They use either:

Linux
Solaris
VMware
Windows
IBM i
AIX

Not all Blade Servers use Cell most use Intel or AMD processors, but those that do use CellBE use Red Hat Enterprise Linux® 5.2.
 
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Not all Blade Servers use Cell most use Intel or AMD processors, but those that do use CellBE use Red Hat Enterprise Linux® 5.2.
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Thanks 👍.. makes sense seeing as the PS3 can use Linux.

If Apple OS is Linux/Unix based could they potentially do a Cell Mac? :crazy:

Robin
 

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