PS3 Slim gets torn apart, insides displayed

Cooling elements take up most space

PS3 Slim gets torn apart, insides displayed. Gaming, PS3, PS3 slim, Sony, iFixit 1

26 August 2009 4:52 GMT / By Stuart Miles

You're probably still waiting for Amazon to ship you your pre-ordered PS3 slim, however while you do, the chaps over at iFixit have already taken one apart to see how Sony managed to get it so small.

The answer?

A massive 95mm diameter fan with a whopping 17 blades plus a large piece of custom molded plastic to route air from the fan over the heatsink.

Elsewhere the "teardown" as ifixit likes to call them (it does this on a full time basis) found that most of the space is taken up by a desktop PC sized Blu-ray drive.

Other geek stats to impress your mates with down the pub? Sony has stuck with a lot of the same chip manufacturers as the original PlayStation 3 and that upgraded 120 GB drive is a Toshiba-manufactured, 5400 RPM standard notebook SATA drive.

More pictures and a blow-by-blow account in 27 steps over at ifixit (via read link below).

Via: ifixit.com

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