HP bought VoodooPC

[Cevinzol]

Not sure if this is a big thing or not.
According to Tom's Hardware (http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/09/28/hp_acquires_voodoo_pc/) it looks like VoodooPC (http://www.voodoopc.com/default.aspx) has gone the way of Alienware.

Looks like Corporate American is trying to buy their way into a subculture. I just have this image of a bunch of HP suits showing up at a LAN party and trying to fit in.

Seems kind of niche market to me. After all, by the time you've gotten to the point where you can afford bleeding-edge-tech, don't you have the knowledge (or at least desire) to build/tweak it yourself? Where's the fun if you didn't DIY?

[Airbozo]

Not sure if this is a big thing or not.
According to Tom's Hardware (http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/09/28/hp_acquires_voodoo_pc/) it looks like VoodooPC (http://www.voodoopc.com/default.aspx) has gone the way of Alienware.

Looks like Corporate American is trying to buy their way into a subculture. I just have this image of a bunch of HP suits showing up at a LAN party and trying to fit in.

Seems kind of niche market to me. After all, by the time you've gotten to the point where you can afford bleeding-edge-tech, don't you have the knowledge (or at least desire) to build/tweak it yourself? Where's the fun if you didn't DIY?


Kind of funny. I expect this to happen a lot in the near future. HP can leverage thier spending power to get the parts cheaper and make a bigger profit on each box. The box I built for a customer in SoCal was in direct response to a boring machine that HP sent them. They liked the performance of the system but hated the bland look so they contacted us to see what we could build them.

[d_stilgar]

Seems kind of niche market to me. After all, by the time you've gotten to the point where you can afford bleeding-edge-tech, don't you have the knowledge (or at least desire) to build/tweak it yourself? Where's the fun if you didn't DIY?

Not always. There are some computer things that I don't like to do. I mod and build and get all the hardware to look and perform well, but I am not very good (yet) with software tweaks. I get frustrated quickly. So I wouldn't mind putting together a custom system from alienware (or the like) just so I would know that I would have minimal problems when I got it.