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The Most Hypocritical Smoke-Blowing of 2008
PWNING 9-5 —
... Details for the afformentioned market-changing product have been "leaked" to Engadget. The gist is this : It's small and it's got dual MXM graphics cards. A decent config in a good looking, small package. I love the size, but... MXM graphics cards are expensive, MXM-on-desktop boards are non-standard (expensive), and it's watercooled. This is all says to me that this isn't going to be a real solid price/performance product, it's more of a relatively-powerful-in-a-small-package-but-not-cheap product. In other words, a laptop without all the benefits of a laptop? ...
Voodoo-Designed HP Firebird 803 Is Tiny, Still Has Space for Too Many Lights [Hp]
Gizmodo —
... , so the design of HP's pint-sized Firebird 803 gaming tower with VoodooDNA is kind of disappointing. Oddly, it reminds me of Linkin Park. ...
HP uses VoodooDNA for Firebird 803 tower
TweakTown's News RSS Feed —
... to. But with that said, it does run an impressive set of specs and should be plenty of grunt for the majority of modern games out there. The specs include :- NVIDIA nForce 760i SLI chipset Core 2 Quad Q9550 2.83GHz processor 4GB of RAM Dual NVIDIA GeForce 9800S cards Two 320GB SATA drives Blu-ray 5-in-1 card reader 6 USB, 1 FireWire, 2 eSATA, 1 S/PDIF and 1 DVI dual-link Bluetooth 802.11n WiFi You can find a stack more pics and details on the Firebird 803 here . No word on availability or pricing yet. We always loved us that Voodoo-designed HP Blackbird ...
HP Firebird 803 gaming system unveiled
DV Hardware —
Some details about the HP Firebird 803 gaming system were unveiled by Engadget, you can check out a dozen of photos over here. The system features a small form factor but uses an external power supply. ...
HP Firebird 803 turns up early
Fudzilla —
... supply which looks similar to that used on some HP/Voodoo notebooks and we'd imagine this will be a very quite gaming system. Finally the Firebird 803 is set to ship with a wireless keyboard and mouse. We have no idea how much the Firebird 803 will cost, but one thing is for sure, it'll be expensive and we can't imagine that HP will sell too many of these systems. More details should be revealed at CES early next month. You can find some more details and lots of pictures over at Engadget Image
Christmas Eve Shortbread
The Tech Report: News —
... and AMD RV740 GPU 40nm tape-out finished , Nvidia targeting GT212 for 2009, says paper MacRumors posts iPhone Nano concept photo? Huntkey tries to bribe Hardware Secrets C|Net reports Micron posts $706 million loss on memory woes Microsoft announces quarterly earnings release date and upcoming event for the financial community Opinion: hp / VoodooPC's Rahul Sood , the most hypocritical smoke-blower of 2008 Engadget: hp Firebird 803 tower with VoodooDNA leaked Hexus.insight - Nvidia's Bernhard Gleissner talks ...
HP Firebird gaming towers with VoodooDNA to start at $1,799
Engadget —
... It'd be a gross understatement to say that we weren't remarkably excited about the HP Firebird 803 when we caught wind of it last week, but now you can safely say that our emotions have settled down after hearing the price. Granted, the $1,799 starting figure for the Firebird 802 isn't totally unexpected -- after all, the Blackbird 002 went for ...
HP to unveil green gaming PCs at CES
TG Daily - Hardware News —
Palo Alto (CA) - Hewlett-Packard apparently has plans to soon announce two high-performance desktop PCs that have a slim, eco-friendly design, thus defying the concept that bulk and big is best. Typically gaming PCs have heavy duty cases allowing for a simple upgrade to hard drives, video cards and other components. According to Engadget, the new Firebird packs VoodooDNA 802 and 803 bookshelf-type systems that are equipped with quad-core Intel processors with a clock speed of up to 2.83 GHz, 4 GB of DDR2-800 memory and dual Nvidia GeForce 9800S video cards with 1 GB of ...
HP officially launches Firebird with Voodoo DNA
Engadget —
... We figured it was destined for a CES release, and HP has confirmed that today's the day. The hotly anticipated Firebird with Voodoo DNA has been properly introduced to the world, and within it will come an Intel Core 2 Quad CPU, twin NVIDIA GeForce 9800S graphics cards in an SLI configuration, hot-swappable 320GB hard drives (two of 'em) and an advanced thermal management system to keep things cool, calm, collected and quiet. As ...
