if budget is not a constraint for you, straight get from Sony Malaysia, or ?..if u tend to have some budget / plan to save up by any means u can, go for SG or HK set or just any, with pretty decent cheaper price...on general terms, ps3 slim processing is better than ps3 phat in the sense that, till now, not much to No complaint at all about their performance, altho loading time may be abit slower, but that is just by mili second and you wont realize it, besides the slim version uses less electricity..hehe.

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