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1. Comment - Profile: HP's Blackbird 002 and the Ideal of the PC

   (Sep 21, 2007 - 12:46 PM)

   Nice to see the pricing on this reflect close-to-par CDN/USD:
   $5,500.00 (USD)
   $5,507.15 (CAD)

2. Comment - Profile: HP's Blackbird 002 and the Ideal of the PC

   (Sep 21, 2007 - 12:43 PM)

   Skinner, I doubt you RTFA, but they actually covered that.
   I'm also guessing you've never priced or purchased a Voodoo computer before.
   Voodoo's prices actually aren't all that bad, for one. You just have to remember to factor in your labour. Count the amount of hours it would take you to mod, multiplied by what you'd pay yourself.
   Next - the components. Having purchased a Voodoo box before, I know for a fact they use standard components. You can swap 'em in and out with no problems. Your comment is invalid.
   Third - what they don't talk about is drivers. I was pleasantly surprised back in the day to find that Voodoo had hand-picked and selected drivers that no only don't conflict, but work well with each other. This is apparent when you start mucking around with them. Voodoo may use slighly older drivers, maybe even beta drivers at the time, but their testing process assures that all works well.
   Fourth - this may no longer be their practice, but Voodoo has always shipped machines with recovery discs. I'm not talking a hidden partition, or CD you basically reinstall. I'm talking about a Ghost image with all of the drivers, tweaks, etc, ready to go, sysprepped, and a copy of the BIOS settings.

3. Comment - VMware to Offer Virtualization for Mac

   (Dec 22, 2006 - 11:51 PM)

   No offense, but this was news a month ago.
   The beta has been out for quite some time, and they have had a signup site running as well.