HP Envy H8 Branding Criticized by Envy Brand Creator

HP has released the HP Envy H8 desktop machine recently. It is a sub-$700 computer that is effectively  mid-range desktop computer that offers decent performance for the price. However, the computer’s naming is not only far from the original “Envy” branding which was used for ultra-high end computers, but it can also be read as Envy “hate” (just like Facebook’s conference F8 is called “fate”).

The Envy brand originally came from VoodooPC, which was acquired by HP in 2006. In a recent tweet, Raul Sood, VoodooPC’s founder, now working at Microsoft, says: ” “Thought I’d seen everything…then I saw the ‘HP ENVY H8′ desktop… what the heck guys? Is this code for I give up?” (more…)

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