Voodoo Envy 133 packaging revealed
By Donald Melanson 
posted July 9th 2008 3:34PM
posted July 9th 2008 3:34PM
As if it wasn't already clear enough, Voodoo is really going all out with its new Envy 133 laptop (and Omen desktop), and it looks like that extends right down to the packaging as well, as evidenced by this latest batch of shots provided by Voodoo founder Rahul Sood himself. As you can see above, the company has even gone so far as to include a microfiber sleeve with the laptop to add one more layer of anticipation as you unbox the thing. Be sure to hit up the read link below for the rest of the pics, including a peek at the acessories and some close-up shots of the keyboard.
Ok I'm the only one who has a problem that vista required 15GB of hdd space, 128 mb min of video memory and 1 gb of ram just for your computer to function slowly and freeze from time to time. Right that makes a good OS esp. considering OSX uses half of that and has less freezing and better functionality. And what that even more true is Microsoft is planning to replace it in no more than 2 years, not upgrade replace. Also the fact that Bill Gates himself said it was terrible. Yeah thoses are all great things about Vista. Obviously you can do more with it then OSX but for everyday simple stuff you can't tell me you would not rather have an Envy with OSX than an envy with Vista
Nice computer at a decent price for what you get. Hopefully the unique feautures will allow them to find a real market for expensive windows boxes. They never have really flown off the shelves before, but then again the only unique engineering feature other manufacturers have tried is a compact form factor. This one has that going for it, plus:
-large multi-touch touchpad
-backlit keyboard
-eSATA port with combined USB2.0, allowing their Voodoo brand drive to run off eSATA while taking power off the USB2.0 connection, while allowing this ultra-slim computer to have 2 USB ports when the eSATA isnt being used.
-external eSATA/USB power DVD-RW drive, very slim, and connector rolls flush inside.
-power brick which has ethernet port, negating the need for a separate ethernet dongle, and also doubling as a wifi access point
-instant on linux environment with access to firefox, email, chat, media
Some of these features are very nice. Multi-touch-pads will probably start to be standardized seeing as how Apple is predicted to start adding them across their line, but I hope Voodoo doesnt have patents on that eSATA/USB idea or the power brick/portable wifi access point idea.
I'm writing the word keybaord on my keyboard...
Glad Apple finally has some real competition from the PC world now in regards to the hardware look and feel. I can't think of one other PC maker (that's not overly priced) that doesn't ship their stuff in brown boxes and layers of plastic wrap.
Sure they're "stealing" from Apple, but it's not like Apple invented minimalism and clean and smooth lines, right? They've just been doing it for a while. Voodoo has been too (around these parts, I'm from Calgary where Voodoo is/was? located) and I'm glad since HP acquired them that they get the attention to detail they deserve.
And the adapter and external drive? Delicious. I wish I could send my Air back. :( I'd kill for one of these machines, even if it does have Windows! Downgrading to XP isn't that hard. Right? Right?!
Not overpriced?
*yawn*
Im a big apple fanboy , but that is a sexy laptop. I agree with an earlier comment about the fingerprints, but i could get over that. Looks good.
Thats a crazy touchpad. The whole thing is pure sex.
Whats a "keybaord" Jeez there is a spell checker for a reason. @ articles author.
lol owned the author!
ok, when the Air's first came out, i will admit, they were sexy.
but now when i look at them, all i see is the same old same old: gray aluminum look from apple. This voodoo looks VERY sexy, and has a style all its own. Apple needs to work on its laptop designs, because seeing gray and white for the past 3-4 years is getting very old very fast.
I will admit that last year I thought apple Desktops and Laptops were the schiznit. But the interface really hasnt changed and is still a drab gray (yes i know you can change it).
nothing really has changed w/ apple since they have launched the ibook g4 and OSX 10.3 same store, same website, same white minimalistic design, pretty much the same everything for the past 5 years. bleach.
they have improved some here and there, but the base still remains the same
the thing is, now when i see an apple product, i go flaccid. unlike before when it served as a stimulant. This voodoo is my new stimulant though. yumm... i want to eat it. this is what i compare everything else in my life to.
I pretty much agree, design is meant to look good but almost just as importantly be interesting, brushed aluminium was new and exciting when Apple introduced it, it is now old, and very boring to look at, I mean seriously right now it feels that Apples development process is
find hardware -> wait 6 months for it to become obsolete then use it -> lock the user out of hardware changes -> stick it in an aluminium box with smoothed corners -> stamp Apple logo on it -> add £300 premium -> get drooled over
i personally like the brushed aluminum.
its very....raw.
apple is going for the whole minimalist thing,
and it works for them
i actually like the ibooks i think they were, the ones that were white and lime green, or blue, that was a cool color scheme to me
@ jason, retro77, et al.: Are you serious? "Sexy?" "Pure sex?" "I want to eat it?" I'm sorry, but this is one ugly laptop.
It's beautiful, yeah...but I still can't justify paying that much for an un underpowered laptop, mac or pc....it just seems stupid and show-offy, you could buy a much more competent laptop for the price.
Also, I don't get what people have a against Vista anymore, I mean when it came out yeah it sucked, but I'm using now and it's given me zero problems, runs great, and is easy to use. I think people are just riding the vista-hating trend nowadays.
Voodoo has always been known for high prices. It is everything else that comes w/ it. Is it practical? no. is it something where you buy it to treat yourself? yes.
I think that laptops like the MBA and the Envy are sort of showpieces for
a company, it's not meant to be practical it's to show that Voodoo and Apple can create an ultrathin laptop, it attracts customers to their catalog
long enough for them to show off their more mainstream models
Wow, I like voodoo design but this has gone too far, I mean, first Rahul says that voodoo has been working with Intel to create the chips but actuall itwas App,e the specs are the same, the innovation (?) is the same, and even the packaging, I mean, cmon!for one extra USB port and a removable battery, I wouldnt pay 300 bucks extra. And not to mention, Air has remote disc, this doesnt and this is running Vista, Bleh!