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Advice on which PS3 model to get?
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If PS3 gaming is what you care about most, best get a slim model that can run proper cfw. A HEN system (later slims, superslims) work as well, but they can be quirky with a few tasks outside of gaming (e.g. trying to rip a Bluray movie for conversion on a PC), and you have to run HEN on every boot (just a single button press and a few seconds of waiting, but still).
That being said, the superslim, while feeling very cheap, can sometimes also be bought very cheap (i paid 20 EUR for a used one a few years ago), and since they use a fixed drive (i.e. no slot loading mechanism), you don't have to worry about the mechanism failing.
I can rip blu rays with my ps3!?
On a CFW PS3, you can use multiman to create an ISO of a video BluRay or copy the file structure off of the disc by putting it into "classic multiman mode" - This will not work on HEN systems You'll still need to copy the result over to your PC and use software like MakeMKV to rip it to a movie file, but it works. I had to do that recently with a BluRay Disc that my PC Drive was refusing to read without errors.