Engadget is reporting that the new 40GB PS3 - which is on sale right now in
Europe and
Australia and which will be released in early November in
America and
Japan - is built quite differently from its 60GB and 80GB brethren. It seems Sony has done a bit of cleaning up of the internals of the machine by utilising a new motherboard and smaller components. Even the Cell itself has had a bit of a spruce up and the chips inside the 40GB SKUs are of the 65nm variety.
This means that the 40GB PS3 runs quieter, cooler and at a lower power consumption than its big brothers. For audio-visual-philes this can only be a good thing when the PS3 is being used as a media hub. We've never had a problem with our PS3s making noise, but we're always happy to see technology get improved.
1. So does that mean there's a major difference regarding power between the 60 and the 40?
Posted at 4:17PM on Oct 30th 2007 by Byron517