Posted 02/16/2008 at 05:08:20pm

I just got a new Blackbird and I hate to say it because I always seem to read such good things about the Blackbird but this is absolutely the noisiest PC I have ever had. I thought that liquid cooling would mean silence but this thing also has 3 fans and the noise is very loud and irritating. It's like some industrial equipment. If my wife speaks or yells to me from the other room I now have to leave my office and ask her to repeat. It also always takes several attempts to start due to the blue screen of death....always, even after it just goes to sleep. I have owned many computers since 1993 and been given many at work. This is by far the worst as far as problems go. I wish I had XP on it and I am thinking of attempting a dual boot configuration but I have never done that and am afraid would screw it up. Plus HP just told me that they would not support that so I assume that means it would void the warrantee. Also it seems that every piece of hardware I try to hook up whether it be a camera, microphone or whatever is incompatible. I hate Vista and I see no use for it except that it looks cool and gives MS something new to sell. It is a super resource hog and was obviously not ready to go public.