Voodoo
Voodoo is HP’s enthusiast unit, bought in September 2006 and which still has its founder – Rahul Sood – in charge. It has launched two top-end products: a laptop and a desktop.
The Envy
The Voodoo Envy 133 is an ultra-thin laptop apparently designed to take on the MacBook Air. Here are some of the key specs, as taken from the voodoo spec-sheet.
CASING
• Carbon fiber with custom micro-weave design
DIMENSIONS
• Width (cm): 32.2 = 12.65 inches
• Depth (cm): 23= 9.04 inches
• Height front & rear (cm): 1.79 = .70 inches
• Weight starting at: 1.53Kg = 3.373 lbs. (with SSD & battery)
PROCESSOR
• Intel Centrino Processor Technology featuring Intel Core 2 Duo
processor SP7700 (1.8 GHz, 4MB L2 Cache, 800MHz FSB)
• Intel Centrino Processor Technology featuring Intel Core 2 Duo
processor SP7500 (1.6 GHz, 4MB L2 Cache, 800MHz FSB)
DISPLAY
• 13.3" WXGA High-Definition Widescreen LED Backlit Display (1280x800)
• Ambient light sensor
USER INTERFACE
• Large touchpad with multiple finger tracking, supporting chiral scrolling,
pinch and momentum gestures
• LED backlit Keyboard
• Proximity sensor for touchpad disable
GRAPHICS
• Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3100 (shared)
HDD
• 64GB Solid State drive or 80G HDD 4200RPM
It’s yours for $2,099 and will be available sometime this summer.
The Omen
The Voodoo Omen desktop is positioned as the pinnacle of design and performance. It has loads of bells and whistles including embedded copper liquid cooling pipes and a seven inch built in auxiliary LCD. Here are the specs:
CHASSIS
• Strengthened aluminum construction
• Hover suspended box design
• Easy removable side and top panels
• Built-in USB driven 7” Widescreen display
Resolution: 800x480
• Dimensions
Width (cm): 19.05 = 7.5 inches
Length (cm): 58.42 = 23 inches
Height (cm): 55.88 = 22 inches
Weight starting at: ~45Kg =~100 lbs.
LIQUID COOLING
• Liquid coolant options: red, blue, green, purple and orange
POWER SUPPLY
• 1150W air cooled
• 1300W liquid cooled
MOTHERBOARDS
• ASUS Striker Extreme II (NVIDIA 790i)
PROCESSOR
• Intel Core 2 Micro architecture, overclockable, liquid cooled
• Intel Core 2 Extreme Quad-Core 3.20GHz QX9770
12 MB of L2 cache; 1600 MHz FSB
• Intel Core 2 Extreme Quad-Core 3.00GHz QX9650
12 MB of L2 cache; 1333 MHz FSB
MEMORY
• Four DIMM slots supporting up to 8 GB of main memory, overclockable
2, 4, or 8GB 1600 MHz CORSAIR PC-14400 DDR3 SDRAM
GRAPHICS AND DISPLAYS
• Supports both NVIDIA SLI and ATI CrossFireX, liquid cooled
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 ULTRA with 768MB of GDDR3 SDRAM
ATI Radeon HD3870 series
• Includes support for next generation NVIDIA and ATI graphics cards
STORAGE
• Flexible RAID capabilities (0, 1)
• Up to 6, no carrier, tool-less drive bays
For the time being, the Omen is only available to those
invited by Voodoo and has a starting price of $7,000. General availability is
expected towards the end of the summer.
Notebooks
Making up the numbers were 17 new notebooks covering the full spectrum from entry-level to high-end and consumer to business.
