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Comments on: HP shrinks Firebird gaming PC with Voodoo

New HP Firebird gaming PC uses laptop hardware, Voodoo know-how for unique, supposedly more efficient design.

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by renGek January 6, 2009 11:00 AM PST
5400 rpm hard drives... thats just silly on any desktop let alone one that is suppose to be for casual gamer. at least thats something upgradable. I guess they were just clearing out inventory of unused drives from 1999
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by voodooftw January 6, 2009 5:07 PM PST
Naa, not quite. These are high performance 2.5" drives. They're designed as small form factor SATA drives - they are certainly not 1999. That's not to say that you can't upgrade them. You can always buy external eSATA drives (2 ports) - or even swap 1 or 2 for Intel SSD drives if you want. They are simple to replace.
by trd1282 January 6, 2009 1:57 PM PST
I wonder how much a power supply replacement will cost now that it is external.
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by ubikk23 November 4, 2009 12:57 PM PST
power consumption is so low, that the odds you'll need a replacement are also low.
by panda630 January 8, 2009 10:23 PM PST
have you guys noticed that the firebird replaced the voodoo omen on their website i guess people did not want to pay 10000 for their side mounted cpu, 100 lb gaming computer
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by randomdx January 10, 2009 11:13 AM PST
Perhaps the Firebird packaging will inspire other alternatives attractive to a broader market where neither desktop replacement or existing tower configurations meet the needs of users other than gamers.
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by blackturd January 17, 2009 11:58 AM PST
Let me see, you sell out to HP, then you stop doing what made you cool, you create the Blackbird (disaster), then you can't make money, get rid of Omen and now build the Firebird a computer for NOOBS. Guys, why don't you actually work with your partners, use the big budget of HP and actually do something nobody has done before. Something called innovate. Is case design innovation? Don't think so.
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by shaolin4476 January 21, 2009 2:07 PM PST
Please read why the system was designed. Man, a bunch of kids with no money complaining about what they can't afford anyway.
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by bobbobberson May 12, 2009 6:48 PM PDT
I'm pretty sure I'm gonna buy one, not sure which, 802 or 803??
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