HP Blackbird 002 Exhilaration Edition Preview

jmke · 18th July 2008, 14:53

There you go. I'm going to spend the rest of the night cleaning up, cabling (I am one of THOSE guys when it comes to cable management) and getting drives updated. I'll run some benchmarks on it and post my impressions of the system itself later on. Overall, it's a solid machine, just not a "special" as I thought it would be. It certainly doesn't appear that any effort was made to differentiate it from the standard Blackbird002 other than the skins. It would have been nice to get some custom themes, maybe have the USB drive come with the EE color scheme, I don't know. I guess it's not important in the big picture, but for some reason I expected this to be a step above the regular/retail model.

http://www.thenextbench.com/hpg/boar...mp=true #M818

18th July 2008, 14:53	#1
jmke Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium Posts: 79,021	HP Blackbird 002 Exhilaration Edition Preview There you go. I'm going to spend the rest of the night cleaning up, cabling (I am one of THOSE guys when it comes to cable management) and getting drives updated. I'll run some benchmarks on it and post my impressions of the system itself later on. Overall, it's a solid machine, just not a "special" as I thought it would be. It certainly doesn't appear that any effort was made to differentiate it from the standard Blackbird002 other than the skins. It would have been nice to get some custom themes, maybe have the USB drive come with the EE color scheme, I don't know. I guess it's not important in the big picture, but for some reason I expected this to be a step above the regular/retail model. http://www.thenextbench.com/hpg/boar...mp=true #M818 __________________

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