49: HotHardware's Two and A Half Geeks Webcast - March 30, 2012

by Marco Chiappetta — Friday, March 30, 2012, 11:27 AM EDT

In this latest episode of HotHardware's Two and Half Geeks, Marco and Iyaz discuss our recent reviews of the Lenovo IdeaPad U300s ultrabook, the new Apple iPad, AMD's FirePro V3900 pro graphics card, and iBuyPower's Erebus GT gaming PC. They also talk about, NVIDIA's new GeForce GTX 680 and GT 640M GPUs based on the company’s new Kepler architecture, look at a retired World of Warcraft server, the Wing Commander: Darkest Dawn release, and drop some hints about an upcoming giveaway in which readers could win an NVIDIA Tegra 3 based tablet!

Show Notes:
00:59 - A No Holds Barred Review of the (3rd Gen) iPad (2012)
02:35 - Lenovo IdeaPad U300s Ultrabook Review
04:13 - AMD FirePro V3900: Pro Performance, Bargain Price
04:40 - iBUYPOWER Erebus GT Gaming System Review
05:12 - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Review: Kepler Debuts
08:20 - NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M: Kepler Goes Mobile
12:05 - Photo Gallery: Retired World of Warcraft Server
15:22 - Wing Commander: Darkest Dawn, Fan-Made Goodness

Tags: Nvidia, Lenovo, Apple, podcast, Geeks, Warcraft, ipad, Kepler, webcast

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