So we managed to get a few minutes alone with the very very new Voodoo Envy, the new “thin is in” laptop from the very talented people in Voodoo who are now owned by HP.
Unlike most others, this laptop is encased in carbon fiber with a custom micro-weave design. So yes, you can put your own “mark” on the exterior, though not just yet. It’s a lightweight but powerful laptop, weighing in at 3.37lbs and a processor clocking in at 1.8Ghz with the usual 2GB of RAM. It has a 64GB solid state hard drive and a 13.3″ WXGA High-Definition Widescreen LED Backlit Display with resolution of 1280×800, it has the usual ambient light censor.
No optical drive, though a nice external one and no built-in ethernet BUT the power brick does have ethernet built in there. Clever. Where there’s ethernet there’s a power source. The battery can also come out, unlike the MacBook Air. Battery life is 3hrs 45. Slightly less than what you get out of an Air but actual field testing might prove different here.
A worthy competitor to the MacBook Air and Lenovo Thinkpad x300 but the crowd that will go for this might not even consider the x300 and vice versa. Only drawbacks so far are the trackpad doesn’t feel great and the shape is far too rectangular(for my tastes). Pricing stateside is: $2,099. It’s going to be a great success.
A proper more in-depth review will happen once we get a loaner from HP/Voodoo and have it for a few days.
Johnny K on June 10th, 2008 at 4:23 pm #
Looks feckin deadly. Is the keyboard good?