It's almost as big as a PC. And you still need to patch up all yuor copies. They should put all these patches on a site somewhere you can download them :)

The machine is used to test alpha/beta software in Sony's QA department. He paid $600 for it last year, i know as he is a friend of mine..

its a very big console. For whats it worth i would just buy a prechipped ps2. But it does look cool.:)