if you can configure your laptops with a variety of different hardware set ups, why can't you do that for the PS3?
Think of the marketing savvy you'd have if you let people pimp their PS3s their way. I know you'd have limited options in order to maintain the advantages of being a console and not a PC, but here's how I'd pimp my PS3:
-40 gig HD(I can upgrade this myself)
-Backwards Compat enabled.
-2 USB ports
-Wired internet port
-Wireless internet
-Card Reader enabled
-I'd make the case some screaming color of metallic blue.
Thanks.