HotHardware Video Podcast - November 12, 2010

by Marco Chiappetta — Friday, November 12, 2010, 02:52 PM EDT

In this latest episode of the HotHardware Video Podcast, Marco, Dave and Iyaz chat about AMD's upcoming low-power Zacate APU for netbooks and thin-and-light notebooks, NVIDIA's brand new flagship GeForce GTX 580 GPU, content blocking on GoogleTV from the major networks (and potential hacks and workarounds), and we also take a look back at hard drive performance over the last decade and a half to see how far things progressed over the years. We’re also still looking for entries in the “Name our Podcast” contest—check out the video for some discussion on a few of our current favorite entries...

Show Notes:
00:26 - AMD's Low Power Fusion APU: Zacate Unveiled
04:07 - Marco’s New Baby Girls: Sophia’s Specifications Revealed!
05:10 - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580: A New Flagship Emerges
07:19 - Hackers Attacking Networks' Ban On Google TV
09:42 - Unsung Heroes: 14 Years of Hard Drive Performance
11:15 - HotHardware's "Name our Webcast" Sweepstakes - Win a Gaming Rig!

Tags: Nvidia, AMD, HotHardware, Hard Drive, podcast, performance, GTX 580, Zacate, GoogleTV

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