HP says Voodoo Envy 133 now shipping, hints at new product
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Hewlett-Packard)
It's HP's version of the Lenovo X300 or the MacBook Air: incredibly thin and pretty to look at. It was introduced as part of an elaborate product rollout at a high-profile event in Germany.
The Envy is a good example of the kind of design chops and credibility Voodoo brings to HP. When HP bought Voodoo a few years back, the enthusiast PC maker became HP's gaming PC unit, which made sense, especially after Dell bought Alienware.
But soon after the Envy was announced, HP said it was folding Voodoo into its consumer PC line. It doesn't seem like HP wants to draw a distinction between gaming PCs and regular PCs anymore, and we wondered what the future of the Voodoo brand was at HP.
But it's still hanging around, and Voodoo is also trying to stir up some buzz, if a post by Voodoo co-founder Rahul Sood to the company blog is any indication.
In a blog titled, "Good things happen in threes," Sood talks about the Envy shipping, and a new contributor to the blog, but gets all mysterious about the third "good thing."
"There's also this other thing we're working on right now. Actually, on second thought--forget it. I'll save it for another day. This week's good enough as it is," he writes.
Sooooo, dear readers, what could it be? Chime in with your guesses in the comments.
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As a general purpose laptop, its a great one with lots of nice features. But holy cow is it overpriced. If you want that red paint job its an extra $500. The solid state drive is extra as well and on and on. By the time I finished configuring the model that I wanted, the price was already $3600. For $3600, I expect pretty much the best parts.
Also, this laptop was suppose to have built in noise canceling. Has that feature been dropped because I haven't read any articles pointing it out
You are right though, on the price. But since every Envy laptop is handmade and the whole body is of carbon fiber (which is black by nature) it is costly, especially since they have to dye the carbon fiber to give it a different color; yet generally the smaller laptops come at a higher price so $3600 is a lot, but it sure is better than the Macbook Air (the air doesn't ship with a DVD drive).
- by rnaoncfixd September 16, 2008 9:19 AM PDT
- I'm mostly an Apple fanboy, but this has got me drooling. Well done, HP!
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(7 Comments)(I'll probably find some secret way to install OSX on it)