Comments on: What happened to the HP Voodoo laptop?

HP was one of the early trend-setters in the ultrathin laptop market with its Voodoo design. But this has languished for more than a year.

[grossj144]

I think your last line should read "...1MB versus 512KB." It currently says 1GB. Cheers.

[cbaisa]

when this laptop was announced i drooled over it. i would have shelled out the ridiculously high amount necessary to get one, but the specs were just too low. even at the time this laptop just did not cut it for even a low end laptop. i wish they would make the specs competitive because this laptop is the best looking portable ever created.

[renGek]

ditto. I didn't care how much it cost but when I saw the awful graphics card my jaw dropped again but this time in disgust. A beautiful laptop with some great features and they put a crummy graphics card in it. Some annoying PR person got his way and someone in the tech dept probably quit after that.

[jessiethe3rd]

The one unit I have seen in person is absolutely insanely beautiful. My jaw dropped when I saw it. Unfortunately price wise.... not cracking it.

[fleurya]

I am a MBP owner and I have to hand it to this laptop. It's the hottest laptop I've ever seen and is probably the one that would make me switch back if they would update it and give it a reasonable price.

[imanym]

I am also a MBP owner and I was contemplating getting this but the specs where just OFF. Couldn't past the missing ethernet plug/card (ethernet via access point???), weak vid card, NON 2.5" harddrive and the unit doesn't accept anything but the proprietary drive size and then the weak processor. I am willing to actually squeeze the cash out to own if they just upgrade the unit competitively. If it was competitive I would have had that instead of my MacBookPro without a doubt.

[SuPaGrAm]

HP is a big company, they have the resources to upgrade this thing and shell out thirty other minor upgrades to increasingly obscure other models.

None of the Voodoo-HP projects have been updated in ages, they were really on to something with the IOS and the design is solid but... Voodoo has been comatose ever since.

[tipoo_]

The air is on its second generation, so wouldnt that mean it was refreshed once, not twice?

[tipoo_]

The air is on its second generation, which means it was refreshed once, not twice.

[Markoose]

Tipoo, the Macbook Air has been refreshed twice. It received an upgrade late last year and then just recently.