HP's Blackbird flies

Dell's XPS desktop has had an impressive run. Like the Dodge Viper, it blended many aspects of a high-end gaming system with the quality and controls of a volume-based PC company. While incredibly powerful, the XPS is a little raw when compared with Hewlett-Packard's Blackbird. If XPS is a Dodge Viper, the Blackbird is more like a Corvette in that it is both very powerful and incredibly refined, writes Rob Enderle of TechNewsWorld.

20 Sep 2007

Designed to both showcase the collaboration between HP and Voodoo - the PC gaming company that HP recently acquired - and show up the Dell XPS, the Blackbird is an amazing product.

The case is solid aluminum, and it is built by a company that builds high-quality car parts, not a PC case company. The ducted cooling is modeled after advanced work that came out of HP labs for rack-mounted servers and workstations, and the water cooling solution was specifically crafted by HP labs.

The box is the first with true 360-degree cooling, as air is both drawn from the top and the bottom, while the case is like a large heat sink and stays cool regardless of what is in it.

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