The Ultimate Gaming Laptop - A Portable PS3
Engadget Blogger Ben Heck has crammed a Playstation 3 into a laptop. It took him about a year and a half, but he managed to create a slick looking fully functional Playstation 3 that doesn’t sacrifice any of the PS3’s operability. Settle down PS3 fanboys even if you could lift this 16lb beast, there is only two ways to get one… 1. Build one yourself, or 2. wait until Engadget auctions this one off for charity.
The Specs:
- Original backwards compatible 60GB model
- 17-inch LCD HDTV screen: 720p
- HDMI-DVI connection
- Built-in keyboard, USB ports, stereo speakers, headphone jack
- Size: 17 x 13.75 x 3-inches
- Weight: 16 pounds
For all you motivated DIYers check out Heck’s Engadget Blog for how-tos on how to build some of his other creations like the XBOX 360 laptop and the Wii Laptop.
[via Engadget]
34 Comments, Comment or Ping
Robin
A clever piece of engineering but my god it’s an ugly beast. As demonstrations of rejigging the hardware layout for laptops these are cool, but do they really add any great worth beyond simply an academic exercise?
Apr 14th, 2008
Anonymous
Wow.
Of all the consoles… PS3? Ultimate? Bullcrap, PS3 is NOT Ultimate. You want a gaming laptop, buy a fucking gaming laptop. JESUS.
Apr 14th, 2008
Patrick Callahan
Well, ANONYMOUS…
First of all, if you post something negative about something, at least have the courtesy/courage to put your real name.
Secondly, PS3 is, technically, the most powerful console. (Next to the PC of course) The only reason it doesn’t look any better than Xbox360 is because the developers didn’t do more with the hardware.
Thirdly, they made all the consoles portable. Why are you getting bent out of shape?
Apr 14th, 2008
Tommy
Neat MODs, but yeah. The ultimate gaming laptop is a gaming laptop, not a console made up to be a laptop. A high end PC is far more powerful than a PS3 or Xbox 360.
Apr 14th, 2008
Matrick Fallaspan
Being the most powerful makes it ultimate? In other words, every console maker should stick a diesel engine in their box? Your reasoning is infallible good sir. Also, I’d like to point out to you that this blog post doesn’t even have a listed author so why should commenters like our anonymous bretheren bother? They could alway just do what I did.
Sincerely,
Your Evil Doppelganger Because My Name Matters Apparently
Apr 14th, 2008
LOLINTERNETZ
DISREGARD ALL THE POSTS ABOVE ME THEY SUCK COCKS!!!
Apr 14th, 2008
nosactivated
All this bitching is useless. The idea of putting a PS3 into a laptop is very creative. That’s all! We all can agree that a PC is far more powerful, but how many people out here can actually do what this guy did? Probably not many of you on here! He came up with an idea and put it into action. Being able to use the existing PS3 hardware and also a laptops hardware is a feat to be unmatched by most of use here. It maybe also useless in practicality and cumbersome in weight. Just think of what it would sell for on eBay? Someone would pay big dollar$ for this thing. It is rare, unusual, unique, and obviously one of a kind!
Apr 14th, 2008
ohnoesmilk
Those are really cool.
Apr 14th, 2008
a-cell-be-rate
this notebook IS significant faster than any available i32/i64-Notebook because of the cell-processor!
spend the Cell BE 2gb ram and this beast will run as hell! i would like to see OS-X, Solaris or QNX Neutrino on PS-3 .. =)
Apr 14th, 2008
Chan
I thought that the 360 was the equivalent of the PS3 in terms of gaming poweress? It is well known that the PS3 can beat the 360 in terms of pure processing power, but gaming consoles were meant for games, not servers.
Apr 14th, 2008
mr.moneymaker..
shoot pretty soon they’ll be making portable media and game players just as powerful as this…maybe even paper thin like a mac air
i figure why not start here and use this bad boy as nothing more than a money making tool
Apr 14th, 2008
Peter
Fools, they are photoshops.
Apr 15th, 2008
nosactivated
Peter:
I guess life to you is Photoshoped then! Why is it inconceivable for a person to design such a thing? The Golden Gate Bridge is photoshoped also!
Apr 15th, 2008
WiredTangenT
Ok, first off, if any of you knew anything about the PS3 system, you’d know that it is a mini supercomputer, far more powerful than your pathetic gaming computer could ever imagine. i’ll back that off with this “Sony designed the PlayStation 3 to be more than just a video game console. It supports all kinds of digital entertainment and is basically a home-entertainment computer. This computer sports a specially designed CPU called the Cell processor. Sony, Toshiba and IBM worked together to develop the Cell processor. It’s their answer to the growing trend toward multi-core processing, in which manufacturers place as many processors as possible onto one chip. The Cell processor is scalable for different performance needs. The one used in the PlayStation 3 crams 234 million transistors onto a single die. For comparison, one of the most powerful desktop PC CPUs available in 2005, the $1,000, dual-core Pentium Processor Extreme Edition, just barely breaks the 200-million-transistor mark.”
now if you all got your facts straight, we wouldn’t be having this stupid argument now would we?
Apr 17th, 2008
Aaron
Yes, WIREDTANGENT, we would. Because the Cell processor is powerful. the PS3 puts it to bad use. Oh, and it mentioned a dual-core processor. Try doubling that (quad core processors are now common in high-end gaming laptops as well now) and you’ve got yourself just over 400 million transistors. If you use the Pentium, of course. The PS3 has more transistors than MOST gaming computers. It isn’t nearly as powerful or upgradeable in other aspects, such as video card or RAM. Try a gaming computer with 8GB RAM and a modern processor and you’ll see that, graphically and performance-wise, it will blow any PS3 away.
Apr 17th, 2008
Ryan
Unfortunately running Windows just isn’t worth it to play games, and consoles use ALL the processing power and RAM to play games, they are specifically designed to play games, which means until they become even more like computers they will always be the best way to play games.
Apr 18th, 2008
Kireas
Wiredtangent, the PS3, while being a very powerful piece of equipment - I love it personally - is nowhere near as powerful as the top end gaming laptops, and if you were to put it near the desktop I’m typing this from, it might implode due to shame.
Dual core, pah - try quad-core. Also, what about workstations? For those with the cash, you can get 16 cores working together.
And you said ‘in 2005′. Dear lord, do you know how FAST technology changes? Your argument was out of date before you dreamt it up.
Apr 20th, 2008
Juggalo P
Hey, nosactivated its not how many people know how to do this but instead its who has little enough of a life to do this. the guyh that made this is probly some 30 year old fat-ass virgin that live with his mom.
Apr 20th, 2008
Joel K
I agree with Wired for the most part. I don’t think most gaming laptops could touch the PS3. Sure, a desktop could no doubt, but how much do those cost? 5 times as much as a PS3. Really some video cards cost more than the whole PS3. I think this was a really good idea. While they don’t look all that cool, it would no doubt be good for gaming. Better then a gaming laptop for sure, and much cheaper.
And Juggalo there is no doubt in my mind that you are a virgin living at his mom’s house doing nothing with your life. Because only someone that dumb would waste his or her time on a forum making fun of someone who accomplished something. What have you done?
Apr 20th, 2008
gotPSP
I would like to point out that a PS3 is currently rated between 1/4 and 1/2 of a teraflop. Last I checked, It took about 4,000 AMD Opterons (@2.6 Ghz EACH) to reach 20 Teraflops. (Ohio Super Computer Center “Glenn”). By division, that 5 gigaflops per proc.
Perhaps I’m wrong.
Apr 21st, 2008
Carl
Joel, that’s only if you buy a prebuilt.
I built a desktop for $500 dollars that runs crysis at 45 fps with everything but objects on high.
specs:
3ghz althon 64 X2 6000+
radeon 3850 512mb
2gb ram
120gb hdd
if i had gotten the 5000+, i could’ve upgraded the video card and made it rape the ps3.
Apr 22nd, 2008
Anonymous
I wonder why they call it the “Xbox 360″?
Apr 24th, 2008
Anonymous (no relation)
Next step, install Linux on it
Apr 27th, 2008
Joker
I’m sorry but I have to say…
and I quote…
“Fools, they are photoshops.”
You, sir, are an idiot.
Why exactly would someone photoshop something that they provide STEP BY STEP instructions to build?!
PLEASE shut the hell up.
Apr 27th, 2008
Therealjoe
Actually pcs are far better at playing games because you can have higher quality textures and anti alias. Which i haven’t seen on x box 360 or ps3. You can upgrade your pc when it doesn’t play the latest games but if you get a game like gta4 on x box it has low framerate areas because it cant handle it.
Yes ps3 has a cell processor which is good for raw processing power but graphics and physics need a different kind of processing which isn’t entirely accurate and estimates the calculations.
May 3rd, 2008
Ryan
I would buy one of these for the ‘cool’ factor. Innovation like this is enlightening, we do not always have to think practical!
May 7th, 2008
deane
damn stop complaining guys. might be that computers and laptops are better. while at the same time doing what he’s done is a feat of engineering that most people couldn’t even manage! good job Ben Heck !
May 7th, 2008
User Game Reviews
If you read the specs for the ps3 and the xbox 360 there are really only 2 differences. The first difference is the processor. The ps3 does have a cell processor, however, if you research the type of cell processor they have in it, it is any early cell processor, it really only has one core not multiple cores. It does have other small or mini cores, however, they are no where near as powerful as a normal core in a processor. It is kind of the like the difference between when Intel had processors had one core and hyper-threading. Hyper-threading many times actually slowed the processor down, I’m not saying that the smaller cells slow down the cpu but it doesn’t give it a huge benefit in reality, unless you are running mulitple applications, that is why they were designed for a server. So in reality the ps3 and xbox360 are almost identical in gaming cpu power.
The second difference is the memory and the graphics card. Both systems use and ATI graphics card (yet people still buy Nvidia garbage for their desktops, I don’t understand it). The ps3 has a 256 mb ati graphics card and then it has another 256 mb of memory that can be shared and isn’t dedicated to graphics. Xbox360 has an ati card with 512 mb of dedicated graphics memory. Also the ps3 has used DDR3 memory instead of DDR2. But since xbox360 has 512mb of dedicated graphics memory I give the edge to Xbox in this arena.
Overall the systems are almost identical. Why does one have to be so much more powerful than the other. I know you all want to justify why you bought the system you have, but seriously look at the specs they are the same.
Finally, yes the Xbox360 and the PS3 were probably faster than PC’s at the time they were first release, but seriously that was 2 years ago, which means the hardware is at least 4 years old. Even if you had the top of the line computer 2 years ago, it would get smoked by even a decent system that is 2 years newer. So yes a desktop would smoke them both in pure game power. However, that isn’t what I base my decision on either. I got a Xbox360 because I love Xbox live, (PS3 lacks a lot in that area), it is easy to use and have friends play with you, and last of all the hardware specs are set in stone. They aren’t going to come out with a game a year from now and all the sudden you have to upgrade your system to even be able to play it.
May 19th, 2008
jeff
lol @ ‘user game reviews’ . the ps3 hasnt been out for 2 years noob.
and to answer the question of why its called an xbox 360. because you look at it turn 360 degrees and walk away. (only some will get it)
May 28th, 2008
OJ Simpson
@ Jeff, HAHAHA… Props!
May 29th, 2008
User Game Reviews
Sorry, Jeff you’re right it has been out for 1 year and 8 months (Nov. 2006). It’s hard to remember which release date Sony actually uses. Just like all of Playstation’s good games and the actual system, almost every single release date is pushed back multiple times. But that is a great point in the discussion Jeff, way to point that out.
Jun 2nd, 2008
Playstation games
they look seriusly amazing but to be hoenst there all a little bit too big, bit too large to be taking abroad ect..
Oct 1st, 2008
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