HP’s new Firebird 803: a revolution waiting to happen?

Friday, January 16th, 2009

Rahul Sood is an influential man: he’s the founder of boutique system-builder VoodooPC and now head of HP’s Global Gaming business. So when he posts a couple of blogs about how the gaming PC as we know it is history – an initial rant and then a follow-up answering the deluge of comments and clarifying some of his original points – you know that he means business.

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MacBook Air: the world’s most expensive cake slice

Monday, June 2nd, 2008

We’ve heard of footballers bathing in champagne and Bernie Ecclestone’s lovely leather carpets, but now it seems the computing industry has its own purveyor of grotesque extravagance.

This is Rahul Sood, the founder of VoodooPC and now CTO of HP’s gaming business, cutting his birthday cake with a MacBook Air:

“I assure you no Macs were harmed in the taking of this photo,” Sood claims on his blog. The same can’t be said for HP’s reputation, however. After all, had he attempted to do likewise with a HP laptop, there probably wouldn’t be a cake left.