HotHardware Video Podcast - October 1, 2010

by Marco Chiappetta — Friday, October 01, 2010, 02:39 PM EDT

We’re back for the latest installment of our weekly video podcast. In this episode, we talk about Zotac’s sleek, new, Blu-Ray equipped ZBox nettop, malware riddled GPUs (not really!), the OCZ IBIS high-performance solid state drive, and RIM’s upcoming Blackberry Playbook tablet. We also take a couple of reader questions, talk about Valve’s upcoming DLC for L4D1 and L4D2, hint at a new contest and more...

Show Notes:
00:19 - Zotac Blu-ray HD-ID34 Nettop / HTPC Review
02:53 - New Whitepaper Claims GPUs Threaten Malware Security
05:20 - OCZ IBIS HSDL Solid State Drive Preview
07:24 - RIM Unveils Its PlayBook Tablet
10:44 - Reader Questions: What To Do With An SSD?
12:09 - "The Sacrifice" DLC For L4D1 and L4D2
13:20 - Upcoming HotHardware Game System Sweepstakes?

Tags: OCZ, BlackBerry, RIM, Malware, Zotac, GPU, podcast, ZBox, IBIS, DLC, Playbook, LD4

Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com