HP was nice enough to send us a prototype Firebird 802 gaming rig, and while we haven’t had a chance to fire it up and start sucking at Crysis quite yet, we thought we’d throw up a quick unboxing for you. It’s pretty slick stuff, all around — the box has big plastic latches that pop open, and the machine itself is held in by swing-out cardboard panels, giving everything that “top-secret missile codes” feel you’d expect from a gaming PC. The Firebird itself looks just as nice in our living room as it did at CES , but there are some sad surprises here — the super-heavy external power brick has a troublesomely lame connector , and the included wireless keyboard is pretty simply crap — the slightest downward pressure basically bends it in half . Plus, we’re not at all sure why the mouse and keyboard require a plug-in USB dongle — why not just build the receiver into the gigantic chassis?

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HP Firebird 802 unboxing and hands-on