My 'worry' was about a buying a used old model, not a new one. Was that not clear? You seem so ready to jump on my comments particularly that it indicates you are still angry that I banned you for a week, though you were lucky enough that Foxxy did not agree with the ban, though I should have banned another 2 or 3 for inflammatory remarks made days before I was back on the forum again, in addition to you, which omission, of seeming unfairness, resulted in much angry criticism of me by you, and the whole sequence being played out in public.

But Re: the heating issue, it is something that has been so much discussed on the WZ that I naturally have some concern about the models mentioned as running hot, non-real-world sauna testing or not. I think I would be best off getting a new slim PS3 and should indeed probably stop considering the purchase of an older one as an economy. I am on a very limited income [the price I paid for a life of much freedom from the unpleasant], so it is more of a serious consideration than it seems to be for you, seeing as how you apparently have a fairly new four-core PC. I could not afford one of those, it is beyond my means, and I have house repair expenses to consider. So I am more intense about this issue as a practical matter in my hot weather circumstances, rather than giving a lot of value to lab tests, no matter how torturous. There are more kinds of realities in the 'equation' of value than lab results and tech specs. If I were to think that cell count is all important, and I had the cash to act on that, I might have a PS3 sitting in my house right now. Other concerns have resulted in that not being the case. I am being practical in my concerns; I would be a failure as a fanboy. As always we each rely on our own analysis of our personal needs, desires. Please stop trying so hard to convince me that your analysis of what's right and important should work for me. And stop calling me foolish or stupid when I don't agree with you.