PS3, baby

Got the Playstation 3 for Christmas and I am impressed! Why?

• Its a great Blu-ray player, and a great upscaling DVD player, too.
  
• It has wireless everything: Bluetooth for the controller plus built in Wi-Fi networking
• Acts as DLNA Client, meaning you can view photos, videos and play music that is on another computer in you house, by configuring it as a DLNA Server. This is a work in progress. I got the photos to pretty well now (after using a wired connection from PS3 to my router and improving the performance of my 802.11g wireless network connection to the server computer)
  
• Regarding games, I only have one, F1 Championship Edition, which is less exciting than I expected.
• I've started participating in the Folding At Home project, a distributed computing research project sponsored by Stanford, and supported by Sony via the PS3. The project is a computer model of protein "folding" which may yield medical benefits, like helping cure cancer.
  
• Overall, a great machine. More comments to come.