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Voodoo F-550 Imola Orange 2200+

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Voodoo F-550 Imola Orange 2200+ Specs

Processor Family: AMD Athlon XP
RAM: 1 GB
Storage Capacity (as Tested): 240 GB

Custom car buffs, get ready for your new PC. The Voodoo F series is, no doubt, the coolest-looking PC we've seen. The aluminum system case, inspired by race car driving, is painted a burnt orange, and if that's not eye-catching enough, the one side panel is see-through, to show off the interior illumination (aptly called Voodoo Electric Veins). By no means is this system meant to be placed under the desk or tucked away in some back basement office.

Inside, the Voodoo machine is top-notch: a 1.8-GHz AMD Athlon XP 2200+ processor with motherboard IDE RAID support, 1GB of DDR RAM, and two 120GB hard drives set up as a 220GB RAID 0 array.

Understanding its customers, Voodoo recognizes the need for constant upgrades to give them the latest and greatest (a need shared by custom car aficionados and high-end PC gamers). With its Lifetime Upgrade Insurance Policy, Voodoo ensures that your pricey new power system won't be outdated; the company will upgrade your system with the best of the latest components, including new software loads with a 15-day turnaround, based on agreed-upon price and upgrade specifications.

You can bet a system upgrade won't be inexpensive, but it's reassuring to know that the company already has a policy in place to protect your investment in one of its PCs while at the same time letting you indulge in your computing passions.

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 - Voodoo F-550 Imola Orange 2200+

Voodoo F-550 Imola Orange 2200+

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Bruce Brown, a PC Magazine Contributing Editor, is a former truck driver, aerobics instructor, high school English teacher, therapist, and adjunct professor (gypsy) in three different fields (Computing, Counseling, and Education) in the graduate departments of three different colleges and universities (Wesleyan University , St. Joseph College, and the University of Hartford). In the fall of 1981 he was bitten by the potentials of personal computing and conspired to leave the legitimacy of academia for a life absorbed in computer stuff. In the fall of 1982 he founded the Connecticut Computer Society and began publishing a newsletter that eventually had a (largely unpaid) circulation of 28,000.

Bruce has been a freelance writer covering personal computing hardware since 1983, the year he co-founded Soft Industries Corp., a computer consulting company, with Alfred Poor (also an ExtremeTech contributor) and Dick Ridington (a Fortune 500 consultant with Creative Realities, Inc., a Boston consulting firm). In 1988 Bruce left Soft Industries to be a full-time freelance writer. He has written for several now defunct publications including Lotus Magazine, PC Computing, PC Sources, and Computer Life as well as Computer Shopper and PC Magazine. In 1990 he and Craig Stinson co-wrote Getting the Most Out of IBM Current, an immediately remaindered work published by Brady Books.

Married to PC Magazine Contributing Editor Marge Brown, Bruce is the father of former PC Magazine Staff Editor Richard Brown (a former and currently thriving freelance writer), Liz Brown (a recent graduate of Colgate University who aspires a career in marketing and public relations), and Peter Brown (who evaluates console gaming systems and games for PC Magazine and various Websites).

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