*Review: HotHardware (
http://www.hothardware.com/Articles/... %5FSystem/)*
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A short while after Dell purchased Alienware late last year, news broke that Hewlett Packard had acquired boutique system vendor Voodoo PC. Voodoo PC is best known for their high performance gaming PC's that feature custom cases, some with lavish paint jobs, unique cooling solutions, and impeccable wiring jobs. We evaluated a Voodoo Omen (
http://www.hothardware.com/Articles/...treme_Gamer_PC) some time back and found it to be an excellent product. If you check out the Omen, you'll see why HP was interested in Voodoo.
After HP's acquisition of Voodoo PC, many speculated that the company's entrance into the high-end gaming PC market was imminent. After all, why else would they have bought Voodoo, right? But since then, not much has changed. It seemed as if it was business as usual at both HP and Voodoo. HP was secretly working on their own gaming PC, however, and its codename was Blackbird.
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