HP to introduce two compact quad-core desktops at CES

Editor’s Note– Its a big news day for HP– here’s part two of three of the releases revealed by HP late last night.  HP has introduced (or rather will be introducing at CES in a few days) a new quad-core desktop line. The Firebird 800 is built with the idea of taking up as little space as possible while still providing the power of a full desktop computer. The quad chips running the PC consume just 65W of power (previous version ran 95W) and has a custom liquid cooling set-up which reduces fan noise from the machine.  The PC’s two models are expected to be used primarily as home theater or gaming PC’s. The 802 is the entry-level version and has a 2.66GHz Core 2 Quad processesor, 4GB of memory, 500GB of disk space split across two drives and a slot-loading DVD burner on top of the NVIDIA hardware. The 803 has a 2.83GHz Core 2 Quad with more cache, 640GB of total hard drive storage and a Blu-ray combo drive. It also brings new wireless options over 802.11n Wi-Fi and Bluetooth as well as a Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi mini PCIe card.  No word yet on pricing of an official release date for the device…