Here's how slow of a news day this is: I got up at 6:30 a.m., finished some work from last night, and then started playing Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 for the Wii. There's nothing going on! In the office, we're not talking about videogames. Instead, we've been chatting about how Firefox has gone downhill, and how cute wild felines are. That's not to say that I wouldn't have ran this blurb on a deconstructed PS3 Slim anyway, but I just want to let you know where we're coming from today.
Website ifixit has done an extensive teardown and display of all of the PS3 Slim's innards. Four full pages of high-quality images give you full instructions on how to take one apart, as well as show you all of the interesting bits inside.
Things of note (may only appeal to tech geek types):
- massive internal fan
- very small power supply
- New Cell processor and RSX chip
- overall elegant internal design
If you don't like flipping through webpages, you'll find a video that ifixit put together after the jump. It doesn't look like $300 worth of parts when taken apart, does it?
Dale North is Destructoid's Editor-In-Chief, a founding editor, and specialist in Japanese gaming. An accomplished musician, Dale was reporting from Japan during the earthquakes of 2011. Luckily, he got the fuck out alive and is home in America now with his wife and beloved corgi, Einstein. Dale is also a co-founder of Destructoid's sister anime site
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10:40 AM on 08.26.2009 | 
I agree, it is going very downhill. Casual users have no way of looking up advanced fixes like this one every time it crashes.
Though very reluctantly, I'm starting to use Chrome more and more: once Dtoid adds 100% Chrome support I might switch.
You people need to learn some computation skills.
"We have finally been able to cut the cost of production and thereby the price of the PS3 by allowing customers to construct the console themselves."
*covers mouth, runs for the bathroom*
And about every 3rd or 4th video--be it news or YouTube will bring it to a screeching, cliff-diving halt of a crash.
Firefox's motto: if it ain't broke, take a ball peen hammer to it.
You're probably all running XP still. Ha, yes, I am running Vista, and I'm proud of it. Again, don't know what everyone's problem with it is. Runs well, aside from being a memory-eater, and haven't had a major .NET framework crash/meltdown in about 2 years, but that was from a massive trojan.
Also, I still can't get over how nervous I would be to have a PS3 slim. I still have nightmares about the PS2 slim in all it's destructible beauty. If, or when, it gets a price drop... maybe. I don't own a PS3, so sure.
...that Is all.