HP is just beginning shipments of its Compaq X line of build-to-order high end PCs, setting their sights directly on the gamer enthusiast market. We suppose this is mainly because they know you didn't feel cool enough with just the letter q in the name of your computer, so they're upping the ante late-90s style, adding an X, which instantly makes it more "extreme" (i.e. faster—see Das Blinkenlights Effekt). And yet they're leaving out the PCI-express, what's that about?
