<![CDATA[The Love Child of HP and Voodoo: Blackbird 002 Gaming PC Photos and Impressions - Gizmodo Comments]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gizmodo.com.png <![CDATA[The Love Child of HP and Voodoo: Blackbird 002 Gaming PC Photos and Impressions - Gizmodo Comments]]> http://gizmodo.com Thu, 06 Sep 2007 12:30:50 EDT Thu, 06 Sep 2007 12:30:50 EDT http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/pcs/the-love-child-of-hp-and-voodoo-blackbird-002-gaming-pc-photos-and-impressions-296409.php <![CDATA[The Love Child of HP and Voodoo: Blackbird 002 Gaming PC Photos and Impressions]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/pcs/the-love-child-of-hp-and-voodoo-blackbird-002-gaming-pc-photos-and-impressions-296409.php#c2326047 Wow, that looks like every other custom built PC rig out there. So, what you are telling me is that there really is a market to sell tricked out rigs?

FrankenPC

]]> 4:296409:c2326047 Thu, 06 Sep 2007 12:30:50 EDT <![CDATA[The Love Child of HP and Voodoo: Blackbird 002 Gaming PC Photos and Impressions]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/pcs/the-love-child-of-hp-and-voodoo-blackbird-002-gaming-pc-photos-and-impressions-296409.php#c2325914 The only proof you need for the level of ugly this thing exudes is that it still looks ugly when paired with the worlds fugliest mouse. blue leopard?

kahri

]]> 4:296409:c2325914 Thu, 06 Sep 2007 12:21:59 EDT <![CDATA[The Love Child of HP and Voodoo: Blackbird 002 Gaming PC Photos and Impressions]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/pcs/the-love-child-of-hp-and-voodoo-blackbird-002-gaming-pc-photos-and-impressions-296409.php#c2325852 I was really into this thing until I saw the vertical disk trays. Sure, it seems like a minor quibble based on the rest of the impressive specs and features, but that would really get annoying to me. At school I had my PS2 set up vertically and would always fumble around trying to balance the damn disks in the tray as it opened and closed. Poor design decision in my opinion.

LastVigilante

]]> 4:296409:c2325852 Thu, 06 Sep 2007 12:16:46 EDT <![CDATA[The Love Child of HP and Voodoo: Blackbird 002 Gaming PC Photos and Impressions]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/pcs/the-love-child-of-hp-and-voodoo-blackbird-002-gaming-pc-photos-and-impressions-296409.php#c2324957 With a mid-level price of $5,600, this comes to roughly $560 apiece to play each of the 10 decent games that will be released in PC format in the next year. Assuming of course you download the several hundred megs of patches that each of the games will need in order to play properly. And assuming there are no hardware / software conflicts with whatever else you have installed on the machine...

With PC releases withering yearly and consoles getting more and more powerful (while still costing a fraction of what gaming PCs go for) the appeal of this machine is a mystery to me.

cthulhu5673

]]> 4:296409:c2324957 Thu, 06 Sep 2007 10:42:35 EDT <![CDATA[The Love Child of HP and Voodoo: Blackbird 002 Gaming PC Photos and Impressions]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/pcs/the-love-child-of-hp-and-voodoo-blackbird-002-gaming-pc-photos-and-impressions-296409.php#c2323917 How is this in any way beautiful, modern, simple or in fact powerful with off the shelf parts? It looks cheap and at best like a adolescent version of its idol a MAC Pro which is in fact beautiful, modern, simple and powerful and don't give me that crap of upgradeable at leas it works flawless with its installed OS and with no encrypted error messages.

nine9nin

]]> 4:296409:c2323917 Thu, 06 Sep 2007 02:28:43 EDT <![CDATA[The Love Child of HP and Voodoo: Blackbird 002 Gaming PC Photos and Impressions]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/pcs/the-love-child-of-hp-and-voodoo-blackbird-002-gaming-pc-photos-and-impressions-296409.php#c2323867 Case designs are getting gaudier as each year passes. Nice features but horrid case designs.. Designers need to take ques from Antec (P180) and Lian-Li (V series).

Pinkmeister

]]> 4:296409:c2323867 Thu, 06 Sep 2007 02:11:04 EDT <![CDATA[The Love Child of HP and Voodoo: Blackbird 002 Gaming PC Photos and Impressions]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/pcs/the-love-child-of-hp-and-voodoo-blackbird-002-gaming-pc-photos-and-impressions-296409.php#c2323611 It's kind of Apple-like except, you know, ugly. if it's going to live under my desk I guess it's alright. However, my brother-in-law bought one of those butt ugly XPS's and proudly displays it on top of his desk. Go figure.

mudman

]]> 4:296409:c2323611 Thu, 06 Sep 2007 00:58:48 EDT <![CDATA[The Love Child of HP and Voodoo: Blackbird 002 Gaming PC Photos and Impressions]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/pcs/the-love-child-of-hp-and-voodoo-blackbird-002-gaming-pc-photos-and-impressions-296409.php#c2323540 Im more interested in the camera they used to take the photos, great quality.

deedrit

]]> 4:296409:c2323540 Thu, 06 Sep 2007 00:40:24 EDT <![CDATA[The Love Child of HP and Voodoo: Blackbird 002 Gaming PC Photos and Impressions]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/pcs/the-love-child-of-hp-and-voodoo-blackbird-002-gaming-pc-photos-and-impressions-296409.php#c2322749 that first photo is so OUT OF PROPORTION

aweseome nonetheless, I thought this unit was the size of a [small] human. Focus played a shameful joke on me yet again. damn large focal lengths XD

discounteggroll

]]> 4:296409:c2322749 Wed, 05 Sep 2007 22:30:56 EDT <![CDATA[The Love Child of HP and Voodoo: Blackbird 002 Gaming PC Photos and Impressions]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/pcs/the-love-child-of-hp-and-voodoo-blackbird-002-gaming-pc-photos-and-impressions-296409.php#c2322637 It's not LED's like you think. The back panel is actually just electroluminescent (I have that same mobo...) I prefer minimalist design with as few showy LEDs as possible. You cant even tell they are lit until you look at the back panel, and the labels glow softly.

Stang70Fastback

]]> 4:296409:c2322637 Wed, 05 Sep 2007 22:15:52 EDT <![CDATA[The Love Child of HP and Voodoo: Blackbird 002 Gaming PC Photos and Impressions]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/pcs/the-love-child-of-hp-and-voodoo-blackbird-002-gaming-pc-photos-and-impressions-296409.php#c2322634 Ghostbusters anyone?

Holy Shitzmodo. My white macbook turned brownbook for an undisclosed amount of time

pass some of those windex wipes over here please

discounteggroll

]]> 4:296409:c2322634 Wed, 05 Sep 2007 22:15:31 EDT <![CDATA[The Love Child of HP and Voodoo: Blackbird 002 Gaming PC Photos and Impressions]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/pcs/the-love-child-of-hp-and-voodoo-blackbird-002-gaming-pc-photos-and-impressions-296409.php#c2322336 some of those LEDs are actually pretty useful. there's ones on the back panel to keep all the ports visible. nice touch.

willyolio

]]> 4:296409:c2322336 Wed, 05 Sep 2007 21:41:28 EDT <![CDATA[The Love Child of HP and Voodoo: Blackbird 002 Gaming PC Photos and Impressions]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/pcs/the-love-child-of-hp-and-voodoo-blackbird-002-gaming-pc-photos-and-impressions-296409.php#c2321908 If it didn't have LEDs, it would be damn near desirable.

subroc

]]> 4:296409:c2321908 Wed, 05 Sep 2007 20:51:05 EDT <![CDATA[The Love Child of HP and Voodoo: Blackbird 002 Gaming PC Photos and Impressions]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/pcs/the-love-child-of-hp-and-voodoo-blackbird-002-gaming-pc-photos-and-impressions-296409.php#c2321813 Give us Addy for the true sizemodo test.

Lorticon

]]> 4:296409:c2321813 Wed, 05 Sep 2007 20:39:26 EDT <![CDATA[The Love Child of HP and Voodoo: Blackbird 002 Gaming PC Photos and Impressions]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/pcs/the-love-child-of-hp-and-voodoo-blackbird-002-gaming-pc-photos-and-impressions-296409.php#c2321666 THAT'S WHAT I THOUGHT! It's MASSIVE!

je-c

]]> 4:296409:c2321666 Wed, 05 Sep 2007 20:21:50 EDT <![CDATA[The Love Child of HP and Voodoo: Blackbird 002 Gaming PC Photos and Impressions]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/pcs/the-love-child-of-hp-and-voodoo-blackbird-002-gaming-pc-photos-and-impressions-296409.php#c2321473 I build my own PCs, but still you gotta respect HP here for trying to make a nice alternative to a self built PC. It looks like they aren't using any proprietary parts which is nice.

waterdrop

]]> 4:296409:c2321473 Wed, 05 Sep 2007 19:58:09 EDT <![CDATA[The Love Child of HP and Voodoo: Blackbird 002 Gaming PC Photos and Impressions]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/pcs/the-love-child-of-hp-and-voodoo-blackbird-002-gaming-pc-photos-and-impressions-296409.php#c2321331 that thing is HUGE!!! and you said the HP elite 900m was a hulk, just look at that thing, its the same size as that dude

atomriot

]]> 4:296409:c2321331 Wed, 05 Sep 2007 19:42:37 EDT