LEAK: NEW HP/VOODOO ENVY 002 SPOTTED
This leaked photograph from a confidential source close to HP shows what seems to be one of the lead engineers from the VoodooPC team doing a live test of the top-secret Envy 002 portable computer. It arrived in my inbox accompanied with a draft of the marketing statement:
Continuing our policy of innovating the crap out of everything we touch, because innovation is in our DNA and being innovative is what we do, the new Envy 002 is poised to change the industry and turn the whole freakin thing on it's head - AGAIN. You see, this isn't the first time we've done this. We've recently released the Voodoo Firebird, which is innovative because no one else has ever taken high-end, expensive laptop components and put them into a desktop chassis before to create what is effectively a laptop without any of the benefits of a laptop. We don't think the reason for that is because those components are expensive, relatively underpowered, and built for being mobile which would effectively price them out of a desktop environment; we think it's because no one is as innovative as us. So, our new Envy 002 will continue along the same vein, innovatively creating the next step in laptop technology using desktop components, without harnessing the benefits of either one. Yeah! Seriously! This stuff just comes to us! We innovate, people, and you will respect that.
Folks, there's no arguing with genius and money. Or even just money.Labels: Biz
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If they used X58 + Mobile technology, then I think that would be a different story. But then there is always some people beat to your punch.
I posted this on Rahul's lame blog, so it I should put it on your lame one too... ;) - in fairness.
You got what was wanted, people chattering - from my experience it doesn't ever translate into good sales though... :)
http://www.rahulsood.com/2008/12/happy-holidays-everyone.html?showComment=1231291800000#c1125882911677971375
You wrote quite a book over there at Rahul's digs. If I cut through the majority of your garish and exciting prose, here is the paraphrase : I am 1) a nobody (after all, YOU'VE never met me, Ryan Valley, previously of Eurocom, a Canadian supplier of notebooks and VoodooPC vendor) 2) I am horrible at photoshop, 3) I envy Rahul, and 4) you look forward to an intimate time with Rahul at CES.
I can live with that!
However, you make an error in logic if you claim any of that affects whether the Firebird sucks or not, and whether Rahul is full of crap or not. Both of those items have been pretty well covered, and if it takes a lowly, pathetic worm like me to bring it to light, so be it.
i never heard of you either ed, but judging by your blog you are obsessed with rahul. maybe you should ask him for a job, you will probably need one soon anyways
Seems to me like Voodoo is the one that is letting their workforce go:
http://www.edbordenblog.com/2008/09/does-system-building-have-anything-to.html
Maybe Rahul's the one who's going to be pounding the pavement soon. Maybe I'll drop Phil a line, not Rahul.
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