Voodoo's Envy H:171 laptop hits the streets

Voodoo, a company hell-bent on out-spec'ing the competition, today announced that its ENVY H:171 has "set new standards for performance notebooks." While we can't completely trust everything some big PC manufacturer says, we can tell you that the 17-inch, widescreen laptop does flash some pretty robust specs. The maxed-out combo features a Core 2 Extreme CPU, a Dual NVIDIA GeForce Go 7950 graphics chipset, 4GB of RAM, and a hard drive capacity of up to 600GB (using three drives). Additionally, you get your choice of paint jobs, and Voodoo will even slap a "tattoo" on the back, as long you pay for it. So what will it all cost? About $5,000 for the bare bones system, up to somewhere around $7,477 for the full monty -- and those specs aren't terribly dissimilar from something like the cheaper Dreambook -- though they don't offer a $380 "ink."

[Matt @ Jul 18th 2007 5:23PM]

Lovely notebook, glad they finally re-added this series back to the line up.
It was off the market for almost 3 months, and so many people have been waiting for the updated version.

Though many will say the, OMG 7k for a laptop, order one and find out the experience for yourself.

[MrFuNKy76 @ Jul 18th 2007 5:45PM]

I'd never buy a Voodoo after all the problems and terrible support my brother had with his Voodoo laptop, complete waste of money. He might as well have got no support with it at all and all the upgrade opportunities they said they'd offer with the laptop, they never did.

Save yourself the $ and buy something else.

[SteveMB @ Jul 18th 2007 5:51PM]

Isn't this made by Clevo? I had a Clevo D87P, rebranded as the Hypersonic GX7, and it was a piece of artifacting junk. I can't believe they did not recall those! They had nice specs at the time, but man, was it defective!

[coffee @ Jul 18th 2007 6:10PM]

yes, this and the 'dreambook' referenced in the post, are both Clevo rebrands of the same chassis.

[JohnTitor @ Jul 18th 2007 9:52PM]

funny, I haven't seen Sager make a version of this Clevo
but for sure it would have costs like half the price of this Voodoo

[Preston @ Jul 18th 2007 6:06PM]

As nice as those specs are, it just doesn't seem worth the money. And what's with the 7950 graphics cards? No DX10 support in those puppies. Doesn't NVidia have their 8000 series cards out for lappies now?

[Matt @ Jul 18th 2007 6:28PM]

The only mobile 8k series cards on the market are the 8600, which would be a major downgrade from a 7950.
Though this new system comes with an MXM slot GPU so hopefully if the 8800 mobile chip comes out soon it can easily be upgraded.

[sgosteve @ Jul 18th 2007 6:08PM]

Yeah, but can it run OS X?

[John Doe @ Jul 18th 2007 10:04PM]

No because it has a real GPU in it.

[Rob @ Jul 18th 2007 7:14PM]

I don't care what's in it, it's a $7k notebook that'll be worth 2k in six months. What an investment.

[Syntax Error @ Jul 18th 2007 8:44PM]

I have had an *AWFUL* and I mean *AWFUL* experience with these guys. I wouldn't ever buy from them again, and I always recommend other brands to my friends. I couldn't get any reasonably current video drivers, had to do all sorts of ridiculous backflips just to get something to install. Support? yeah right! don't try emailing them, they've some braindead antivirus/antispam solution in place that just plain drops emails from gmail.com. Uh hello? Lots of people use gmail.com, its not a spammers domain. Oh, and yeah about the 'upgrades', hell no, they don't exist. Put your hard earned money into another company, VoodooPC isn't worth it.

[Dan @ Jul 18th 2007 9:01PM]

I wonder what the battery life on this thing is... 20 minutes? Idle? xP

[Dan @ Jul 18th 2007 9:02PM]

and before I forget... OMG 7K FOR A LAPTOP! (in response to Matt ;D)

[Matt @ Jul 18th 2007 10:11PM]

Hey, now, just be glad that Engadget did not ever report about the gold plated OMEN.
Ending price is like 20k for all the best parts.

[nintendo fanboy hater @ Jul 18th 2007 9:20PM]

hmmm... this or a dell xps, an HP 20" and a macbook pro for the same price... i think not

[Ender78 @ Jul 18th 2007 9:43PM]

Forget about price, at 12lbs this is desktop performance at desktop weight.

[SteveMB @ Jul 18th 2007 10:27PM]

John, I believe the Clevo D87P was re-branded as a Sager 8790.

[flyerc @ Jul 19th 2007 12:31AM]

Old news and Old specs... nothing to see here. Move on. 7K yeah whatever Voodoo.

[sandy @ Jul 31st 2007 12:02PM]

I think voodoo company is not good at making laptops. i like only the desktop "OMEN" from voodoo pc. If you are looking for a laptop then i will suggest to see other companies like ALIENWARE.