05: HotHardware's Two and A Half Geeks Webcast - December 21, 2010

by Marco Chiappetta — Tuesday, December 21, 2010, 11:53 AM EDT

In this episode of Two and Half Geeks Iyaz and the crew from HotHardware talk about upgrading the Dell Streak to FroYo—and the huge performance gains that come with it--AMD's brand new "Cayman" based Radeon HD 6900 series, the Viewsonic Viewpad 7 Android-based tablet, and NVIDIA's discrete GPU design wins and Sandy Bridge. We also mention our holiday sweepstakes, which is in its final days, and give some quick glimpses of upcoming hardware…

Show Notes:
00:56 - Android 2.2 FroYo Breathes New Life Into Dell Streak
03:18 - AMD Radeon HD 6970 & 6950 Debut: Enter Cayman
06:13 - ViewSonic ViewPad 7 Android Tablet Review
09:43 - Nvidia Fears Not Sandy Bridge's "Basic" Graphics
12:03 - HH Holiday Sweepstakes with Digital Storm - Win A Killer System!

Tags: Nvidia, HotHardware, Dell, Radeon, ViewSonic, podcast, streak, viewpad, Cayman

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