news.cnet.com - 9/24/2009
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The HP and Voodoo co-branded Envy notebook in 2008. (Credit: Hewlett-Packard)
Hewlett-Packard is sending mixed signals on what exactly it plans to do with the Voodoo PC brand it acquired three years ago.
After purchasing the gaming and PC enthusiast brand in 2006, HP in 2008 began using ...
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Thursday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki 7:34 AM on September 24, 2009 Thursday TG Daily: Intel and Apple are at the crossroads VR-Zone posts AMD's replies to Nvidia Is hp changing its Voodoo tune? Worldwide PC shipments on pace to decline 2% in 2009, says Gartner MSI and LucidLogix form technology partnership to develop Big Bang mainboard FCC: Congress said we could spank Comcast for P2P blocking EU anti-trust chief eager to close Microsoft case Yahoo's Bartz to cynics: Leave us alone Palm ...
Is HP changing its Voodoo tune?
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... at all on it.
So what gives? It seems the Voodoo team didn't have much to do with the Envy, despite its sharing the same name with older products.
"The reason there's no 'Voodoo DNA' on the (most recent) product has to do with the overall design language, the target market, and the fact that we weren't directly involved in the design," Rahul Sood, the founder of VoodooPC and the chief technology officer of gaming PCs for HP, wrote on his personal blog.
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