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1. What's at the heart of HP’s Laptops and Lenovo’s Best Student Tablet

   (Opinion/Opinion Features)

   ... this class of product, a few years ago, you’d be talking close to $3,000.    High End:  Voodoo Envy The high end line is the Voodoo Envy and given the target audience I think the 15.6” ...

2. How HP accomplished what Apple could not

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   ... be moved around to create a work of art. He just wanted the inside to look good and, outside of their very attractive tower cases, he never really got what he wanted.  HP gets it doneHP's Voodoo group ...

3. CES 2009: HP to launch series of low cost computers

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... brand new Firebird desktop gaming PC with Voodoo DNA. Las Vegas (NV) - This week at the Consumer Electronics Show, Hewlett-Packard will take the opportunity to launch a more inexpensive, energy efficient ...

4. HP to unveil green gaming PCs at CES

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... 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 ...

5. Dell pitches MacBook Air rival, Sony enters netbook market

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   ... vendors have notebooks that try to compete with MacBook Air on thinness and lightness, like HP's Voodoo Envy 133 and Lenovo's ThinkPad X300. However, the MacBook Air has remained the defining comprehensive ...

6. Core i7 PCs launch with prices from $1250 to $13,000

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... starts at $3700 and tops out at about $7400. Voodoo PC has not released a Core i7 system yet, which leaves the boutique market to vendors such as BioHazard and Falcon Northwest, at least for now. Falcon ...

7. Asus announces quad-core gaming laptop

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   ... on the chassis. If Asus is able to get this out soon, then it will have beaten Alienware, Voodoo and Dell to the punch with a genuine quad-core laptop.  Dell teased their quad-core M6400 back in ...

8. VoodooPC not going away, just moving

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

     Over the past days, we have heard some rumors that Hewlett-Packard (HP) may be killing VoodooPC just before the Christmas season. It turns out that changes are in fact being made, but they are ...

9. Hewlett-Packard shutting down VoodooPC?

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

     A somewhat surprising rumor about Hewlett-Packard’s boutique PC unit VoodooPC surfaced earlier today on Techgage, stating that “VoodooPC as we know it might not be around for much longer.”  ...

10. Voodoo’s Envy 133 really is more beautiful than the MacBook Air

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

      Voodoo, the boutique end of HP, has been designing crazy computers for a while, and HP’s almost unlimited resources have now allowed it to make an even crazier laptop.  We first wrote about ...

11. HP tries to thump the Macbook Air with its Envy 133 notebook

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... and more powerful than Apple’s Air.  The Voodoo Envy 133 is .7 inches thick and weighs less than 3.4 pounds.  Notably it comes with an “instant-on” Linux variant and a power brick that doubles ...

12. Dell to kill off most of its high-end XPS line

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    ...  Read more … Wall Street Journal.   Read also: Dell/Alienware, HP/Voodoo, Gateway/FX: Branding power Dell XPS 730 H2C desktop invades Alienware territory    ...

13. Dell/Alienware, HP/Voodoo, Gateway/FX: Branding power

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ...   Premium Brands:  Alienware, Voodoo, FX, XPS First, Dell bought Alienware. Then HP bought Voodoo. In response, Gateway brought out its FX premium line. Before Dell bought Alienware, the company ...

14. Dell XPS 730 H2C desktop invades Alienware territory

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... a different idea with its VoodooPC acquisition – instead of keeping the two PC teams separate, VoodooPC was integrated as the Formula 1 team into HP, which resulted in the creation of HP’s Blackbird 002 ...

15. Getting inside Steve Jobs’ head

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... One, HP Blackbird, and Voodoo Envy are exceptions from non-Apple vendors.   Wrapping Up:  Making Steve’s brain part of your own I’m only touching parts of this book and using it to showcase ...

16. 10 things you didn’t know about … Jon Peddie

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... general manager of Intel’s Ultra Mobility Group Rahul Sood, chief technology officer, HP Voodoo Business Unit        ...

17. 10 things you didn’t know about … Anand Chandrasekher

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... Voodoo Global Business Unit, Hewlett-Packard      ...

18. 10 things you didn’t know about … Rahul Sood

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

      10 personal questions and 10 personal answers: We are launching our new series with Rahul Sood, chief technology officer of the HP Voodoo Business Unit. Sood oversees the technical strategy and ...

19. TG Daily. All new. On its own.

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... 10 personal questions revealing a very different side of unique personalities you may have read about in interviews. We are starting this series today with Rahul Sood, founder of VoodooPC and chief technology ...

20. AMD: To merge or not to merge?

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... DNA. Sadly, Huang's fault is the fact that he believes in the value of a single company. Just like the company destroyed the 3dfx line-up and did not use the world's second IT brand (Voodoo, just after ...

21. HP's Blackbird performance desktop lands

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... for a comparable and customized machine from Voodoo PC, which was acquired by HP last year. The Blackbird 002 will be available as a "Dedication Edition" starting September 15 and will be available ...

22. Thinkpad turns 15, gets a $5000 "Reserve Edition"

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... XPS 1710 gaming notebook with 4 GB of memory, a 512 GB graphics card, and a Blu-ray drive; or you could opt for a boutique multimedia system from Voodoo; or you could consider a mobile workstation with ...

23. High-end Voodoo PC catches fire at PC Mags labs

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Brief)

    San Francisco (CA) – The editors at PC Magazine’s labs got a good dose of second hand smoke when a very expensive Voodoo computer they were testing burst into flames.  Brian Neal says ...

24. Voodoo announces Core 2 Extreme notebook

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    VoodooPC is offering a new performance notebook equipped with Intel’s Core 2 Extreme X7800 processor and up to 600 GB of hard disk space. Calgary (Canada) – VoodooPC is offering a new performance ...

25. Quad-core PCs starting to play with mainstream market

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... to its subsidiary VoodooPC instead. However, HP already has applied Intel’s price reductions in the dual-core space. The E6700 currently is priced at a $280 premium over the base E4300 and is offered ...

26. PC trends 2007

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... and some products out of their Voodoo unit that are revolutionary in nature. The new premium line will have a unique look and feel, rich without being gaudy, mature but with a gamer’s edge. This ...

27. A little Voodoo: What’s cooking in HP’s gaming labs

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... on surround screens. Here is his report. Remember HP’s acquisition of boutique PC builder Voodoo? We haven’t heard much of HP’s gaming efforts since the announcement of the merger in ...

28. HP exits MCE business, continues with Apple inspired line - analyst opinion

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... up around August and continue going forward.  Better looking, more powerful, and able to leap tall buildings with a single bound. Also, I spoke to the Voodoo guys today. Wait until you see what is ...

29. Analyst opinion: Putting the “Lust” back into a performance PC

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... go well together. Now, not all PCs are dull, certainly not those made by Alienware, Voodoo, and Dell's XPS team. These systems stand out visually but they don't broadcast their performance to ...

30. CES 2007: VoodooPC introduces new Envy gaming notebook

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Las Vegas (NV) - VoodooPC introduced its newest product, the Voodoo Envy HW:201 notebook PC, today at CES 2007. Las Vegas (NV) - VoodooPC introduced its newest product, the Voodoo Envy HW:201 notebook ...

31. CES 2007: VoodooPC to show off AMD's Quad FX with 18 ft. screens

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Being part of Hewlett-Pack hasn't made VoodooPC lose its flair for the dramatic. The enthusiast computer maker plans to unveil its eagerly awaited systems featuring AMD's new Quad FX processors at CES ...

32. Consumer Electronics Show 2007

    (Event Coverage/Event Coverage Features)

    ... keyboard Microsoft, Broadcom aim to lower cost of HD DVD players VoodooPC introduces new Envy gaming notebook iRobot unveils programmable robot Motorola aims to raise the level of personalization ...

33. VoodooPC shines out new 30" monitor

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    VoodooPC is beginning to make some use of the products of its new owner, Hewlett-Packard (HP). The boutique PC builder announced the availability of a new 30" flat panel monitor, describing it is a high-performance ...

34. VoodooPC introduces Quad-Core computer

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Following yesterday's lifting of the Intel Core 2 Extreme quad-core NDAs, VoodooPC is now introducing a quad-core powered computer. The enthusiast PC maker is upgrading its Omen line with the Intel Core ...

35. Falcon Northwest goes retail

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... increasingly competitive and we are beginning to see some ideas from those companies to break out of their familiar segment: On the one side there are firms such as Alienware and VoodooPC that are seeking ...

36. Is Sony coming back?

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... the company, it is making strong progress with its product lines. However, Dell has become aggressive with its XPS series and the Alienware acquisition; plus HP is doing some amazing things with Voodoo ...

37. Judge "bullies" Grand Theft Auto maker

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Days before the controversial video game Bully is set to release Florida judge Ronald Friedman has ordered the creator of the game, Take 2 Interactive, to provide him with a copy of the game to see it ...

38. Nvidia announces new high-end mobile GPU

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

39. Alienware vs. VoodooPC, 3 years out

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    Analyst Rob Enderle looks for TG Daily into his crystal ball: The market for gaming PCs is about to go through some massive changes as the Dell acquisition of Alienware and the HP acquisition of VoodooPC ...

40. Analysis: VoodooPC - Why so little could mean so much for HP

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    HP's recent purchase of boutique PC builder VoodooPC has taken many by surprise. HP's PC division and Voodoo couldn't be more different and couldn't be less complementary. TG Daily talked to Voodoo's ...

41. Update: HP acquires enthusiast PC maker VoodooPC

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Hewlett-Packard is buying its way into the high-end PC market: Rather than establishing its own brand, the company decided to swallow VoodooPC, one of the larger enthusiast PC brands in the U.S. The deal ...

42. AMD '4x4' technology discussed at analysts' meeting

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    A very small conference, gathering together certain selected AMD technology supporters, including VooDoo PC and Microsoft, was held last Tuesday, the topic of which was the company's upcoming double-dual-core ...

43. Up to $16,000: Core 2 Duo computers flood the Net

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... Intel Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Extreme processors. The processor was official launched today and several companies including Alienware, Dell, Gateway, Velocity Micro and Voodoo PC are introducing new computers. ...

44. The Low-Down on Dellienware

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... can take a look at the deal. That means that we're going to have a month or two of speculation, but business will continue as normal. Thereafter, Alienware's direct competition, the Falcon's and Voodoo's ...

45. GDC 2006: Dell fires up $10,000 enthusiast PC

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... that it would take another try to crack the gaming crowd with an extreme PC that would be closer to what enthusiasts typically buy from manufacturers such as Alienware, Voodoo PC or Falcon Northwest. This ...

46. Quad-SLI drives enthusiast graphics systems into $2000 range

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... upgrade over a standard 256 MB GeForce 7600 GT card. Competitor Voodoo PC only offers a standard quad-SLI system is priced at $7324 in a standard configuration. A similarly equipped system with just one ...

47. VoodooPC launches quad-SLI computer

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    If you are no longer content with using just two high-performance graphics cards in your computer, then maybe you should take a look at VoodooPC's new system which uses four Nvidia GeForce GPUs on. Voodoo's ...

48. Nvidia blitzes back with GeForce 7900, 7600 series, Quad-SLI, notebook SLI

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... according to Nvidia, in notebook systems whose displays are capable of 1900 x 1200 resolution. VooDoo PC and Alienware are among the builders Nvidia listed as making such systems available. If these systems' ...

49. Gossip: Dell to acquire Alienware

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Rahul Sood, founder of enthusiast PC company VoodooPC, has floated the idea that Dell may be warming up to AMD by acquiring an enthusiast PC maker that already knows how to deal with AMD. Rahul Sood, ...

50. Low-priced Core Duo-based Mac mini flanked by iPod's new portable speaker

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... case should come with a free 60 Gb 5400 rpm hard drive. UPDATE: TG Daily contacted Rahul Sood, the president and CTO of Voodoo PC, the manufacturer of the made-to-order Idol systems designed to run Windows, ...