01: HotHardware's Two And A Half Geeks - November 19, 2010

by Marco Chiappetta — Friday, November 19, 2010, 12:10 PM EDT

Welcome to the inaugural episode of “Two and a Half Geeks”, our re-vamped, weekly video podcast. In addition to our new look (which is still being tweaked!), in this episode we talk about the performance of AMD’s upcoming Zacate APU and Woz’s “quote” that Android is going to rule the world. We also go hands on with one of Apple’s new Macbook Air systems and discuss hacking the recently released Microsoft Kinect...

Show Notes:
00:30 - AMD Zacate E-350 Processor Performance Preview
03:36 - Apple Co-Founder Delcares Android the Eventual Winner in Smartphone Wars
06:31 - MacBook Air Preview
09:13 - DIY Kinect Hacking Guide Released
11:27 - "Name our Webcast" Sweepstakes Winner Announced!

Tags: AMD, HotHardware, Apple, Microsoft, Macbook, podcast, kinect, air, Zacate

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