Since the Voodoo brand was merged into the larger parts of HP I remain the CTO of Gaming. My role is not just about gaming, I spend much of my time researching future trends and how HP can participate in a meaningful way. I also aspire to see Voodoo influence more of HP's portfolio, would love to see stand alone Voodoo products again as well. Believe me, all of this is top of mind, but there are other things that need to be addressed before we get there.
You've seen the HP Blackbird with VoodooDNA influence the HP Z Workstation, the Voodoo Envy brand influence the new HP Envy notebooks. We may expand on this, there is a number of explorations happening as we speak. If you want a great notebook for gaming or any high performance application you simply cannot beat the current HP Envy 15. I personally wish we had our own ID / version made of carbon fiber, but as I said, the economy changed things for everyone - not just Voodoo. ...and as you know I can't really speak about what's coming out in the future, but I'm pretty sure you'll see some Voodoo variants in 2010.
I recently had some meetings at Microsoft and I'm actually pretty excited about pockets of work they're doing. Have you tried the Zune HD? For a music playing device nothing touches it! It could use some work on the browsing/internet areas, but otherwise wow!
I'm also real excited about Google Apps, and Chrome OS - damn these Google guys are crazy, and I think it's going to surprise a few people.
In the new year I'm going to share with you some of the outside ventures I've invested in over the years. Very cool stuff, and they're starting to come into their own. Should be an amazing year!
So before we bring it on, I just wanted to take a moment to thank my friends, co-workers, and family who have made my year a special one. Many people had a rough 2009, but the economic collapse is meaningless in the grand scheme of things. One should be thankful for everything they have and everything they don't.
So look forward to my update in the New Year!
