Latest VoodooPC Hardware – Envy H:171

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The recently released VoodooPC Envy H:171 is billed as a desktop replacement notebook.

It has a massive 17.1″ screen but weighs in at nearly 12 pounds (5.4kg). Not a weight you would want to be carrying from meeting to meeting and then onto a plane.

It is optimised for gaming and as a media centre and has hardware well suited to meet these requirements.

It starts at US$5400 with an Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 operating at 2.4ghz and an Nvidia GeForce 7950 512MB MxM for your graphics. At the high end, you could be paying US$6800 (before any custom paint jobs) which will buy you an upgrade to the Core 2 Extreme X6800 but leave you with the same Directx9 graphics.

We did have a comment from VoodooPC that they had only recently received the Directx 10 cards from Nvidia and would soon incorporate them in their models.

In my short experience I think it’s unlikely that this upgrade will be a hidden option, it’s more likely they will launch a new model with Directx 10 being it’s key selling point. I’ll keep you updated on that one.