2.5 Geeks 1/31/18: Killer Crypto And Gaming Rigs, Yoga 920, Samsung Z-NAND, Windows Core Overhaul

by Marco Chiappetta — Thursday, February 01, 2018, 12:15 PM EDT

In this latest episode of HotHardware's Two And A Half Geeks, we'll be looking at Origin PC's hot, new Millennium Gaming Desktop, a beastly mining Rig from Maingear and Unirkn, Lenovo's Yoga 920 premium 2-in-1 ultrabook, a new and ultra-fast Z-NAND SSD from Samsung, and Windows getting a core revamp...

Show Notes:
01:15 - Here Is Madden NFL 18's Remarkably Accurate AI Simulated Super Bowl Prediction
08:09 - Origin PC Millennium Gaming Desktop Review: Custom Chassis, Blinding Speed
22:15 - Lenovo Yoga 920 Review: An Elegant, Powerful 2-In-1 Ultrabook
34:15 - Rahul Sood's Unikrn Partners With Maingear For ACM Killer Cryptocurrency GPU Mining Rigs
38:37 - Newegg Bundles Monitors And Motherboards With GPUs To Mask GeForce And Radeon Price Gouging
43:51 - Samsung Unleashes SZ985 Z-SSD With 800GB Of Z-NAND For Supercomputing Applications
52:30 - Microsoft To Give Windows 10 A ‘Modern’ Overhaul With Light Weight Polaris Windows Core

Tags: Lenovo, Samsung, Microsoft, Maingear, podcast, Geeks, ORIGIN, webcast, unikrn

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