2.5 Geeks 1/24/19: Samsung SSDs, Dell XPS 13, WD My Passport, GeForce GTX 1660, Quake 2 Ray Traced?

by Marco Chiappetta — Thursday, January 24, 2019, 11:00 AM EDT

On this episode of HotHardware’s Two And Half Geeks, Marco, Chris and Dave will be talking about Samsung's hot new SSD 970 EVO Plus solid state drive, Dell's sweet, refreshed XPS 13 laptop, some WD external storage goodness, the supposed Turing-based GeForce GTX 1660, and say what? Quake 2 Ray Traced?

Show Notes:
09:05 - Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus Review: Optimized For Speed
21:12 - WD My Passport Wireless SSD Review: Network Storage On The Go
32:25 - Dell XPS 13 (9380) 2019 Review: So Close To Perfection
46:59 - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Turing Branding Confirmed In Presentation Leak
49:52 - Alleged NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Turing GPU Benchmarks Leaked
56:14 - Quake 2 Gloriously Revitalized Fully Ray Traced, Play It Now On GeForce RTX Cards

Tags: Nvidia, Samsung, WD, podcast, Geeks, webcast, quake 2

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