Cell processor is seriously lacking on branching logic, its a high speed DSP like processor which can operate on SIMD (video/audio) very effeciently but not on game logic. It has only 1 general purpose processor and hence it made a lousy 'computer'.

You can just hack up the old Xbox to install the linux and use it as a computer, there is nothing new here.

By the way anyone see the article here? http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=32171
Things look real bad for PS3 as what i'm suspected the main bus is going to be very very conjested and slow down the whole console for sprites and objects intensive titiles.

This post has been edited by chtan: Jun 13 2006, 02:09 PM

Don't forget the lesson about over-complex Saturn architecture that spelled its doom.
Here is another great detail about cell processor:-
http://www.blachford.info/computer/Cell/Cell0_v2.html

This post has been edited by chtan: Jun 15 2006, 11:54 AM