2.5 Geeks: AMD Ryzen 5000 Unveiled, Google Pixels, 5G iPhonery, Retro Ryzen eMachines Revival And More

by Marco Chiappetta — Friday, October 16, 2020, 12:07 PM EDT

On this episode of HotHardware's Two And A Half Geeks podcast, we'll be talking up AMD's recently announced Zen 3-based Ryzen 5000 series processors, Google's new Pixel 4a 5G and Pixel 5 Android smartphones, the latest 5G Apple iPhones, a vintage eMachines system reborn with Ryzen and Radeon firepower and details of our EK Fluid Gaming PC giveaway, which is winding down...

Show Notes:
05:08 - Apple Unveils 5.4-Inch iPhone 12 mini Starting At $699, iPhone 12 Pro Rocks LIDAR And Dolby Vision HDR Video Capture
14:09 - Google Pixel 4a 5G Review: Big Screen, Great Camera And Value
23:12 - Rage Against The eMachine: A Ryzen And Radeon Retro Revival
29:46 - AMD Unveils Ryzen 5000 Series With Up To 16 Cores, A Huge IPC Uplift And Gaming Leadership
41:32 - AMD Radeon RX 6000 Big Navi Early Benchmark Shows It Trailing GeForce RTX 3080
50:40 - HotHardware And EK Fluid Gaming Fantastic AMD Gaming PC Fall Giveaway

Tags: AMD, Apple, iPhone, Google, podcast, Geeks, eMachines, webcast, pixel, retro, zen 3

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