Altogether now:I'm a new soulWell, if Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) has been listening to Yael Naim singing in Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL)'s MacBook Air ads, I hope it concentrated on the above first part only when it decided to bring a new soul to the ultra-thin portable notebook computer market.
I came to this strange world
Hoping I could learn a bit bout how to give and take
The Voodoo Envy, which is about 0.7 inches thick and weighs some 3.4 pounds, was introduced at an event in Berlin today. To compare, the MacBook Air weighs three pounds and its sloping design makes its thickness varying from 0.16 inches at the thinnest part to 0.76 inches at the thickest. Both have a 13.3 inch display and while the Mac starts at $1799, the Voodoo starts at $2099.
The company also unveiled a new version of a touch-screen desktop PC, an all-in-one PC and 16 notebooks for consumers and businesses, including the EliteBook notebook for business users, which has a heavy-duty, scratch-resistant case.
So it seems H-P may have indeed learned something from Apple -- just like it did at the time from Dell (NASDAQ: DELL), or rather its mistakes -- and is perhaps set to give the consumers a desirable product and even take some market share. Now as long as the last part of the song, Finding myself making every possible mistake, doesn't come true, I think Hewlett-Packard can put a positive check mark next to this one.
La, la, la, la
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6-11-2008 @ 4:01PM
Martin said...
The HP's Voodoo Envy may be nice, but it is still limited to running Microsoft Windows. When the MacBook Air is running on the most advanced OS, Mac OS X and if needed you can run Microsoft Windows at the same time. So just because they copy the looks and size of the MacBook Air, it's still a limited PC. Think of the Apple MacBook Air or any Mac as getting two computers for the price on one.