I have a friend who has a PS2, but I don´t like it, Come on, men!!!, spend that money on a KT266A mobo and a thunderbird, you won´t be dissapointed, and it will be very expensive, because of the games and the difficulties about using a mod-chip. I Hate consoles, they are only for paying games, and, as i really enjoy gaming, it has something that I don´t like, for example, the resolution and their graphics: for example: Play GTA3 in a playstation 2 and see their graphics, they are horribles. Gran Tirismo 3 has brilliant graphics, but the cars doesen´t broke after a crash (that´s not a simulator). I don´t like arcades!!.
Well, there are a lot of disadvantages using a console to play, and yhe most important is that you can´t play Operation Flashpoint!!