HotHardware's Two and a Half Geeks 10/1/2013: iPhone 5s Review, AMD News Galore, Microsoft's Surface 2 and Surface Pro 2 and More

by Marco Chiappetta — Tuesday, October 01, 2013, 12:07 PM EDT

In this latest episode of HotHardware's Two and Half Geeks, Iyaz, Dave and Marco discuss our Apple iPhone 5s full review, AMD's Radeon R9 290X and all of the other various announcements that came out of AMD’s GPU14 Tech Day event in Hawaii last week, the new Microsoft Surface 2 and Surface Pro 2 and a whole lot more!

Show Notes:
01:25 - Apple iPhone 5s Full Review
08:03 - AMD Hints at Improved Software, Development Tools, and Linux Support In Hawaii
10:13 - AMD Radeon R9 290X Sneak Peek: Update Watch AMD's GPU14 Tech Day Live Stream Here
10:35 - AMD Unveils New Family of GPUs: Radeon R7 and R9, With Exclusive Battlefield 4 Preorder
12:39 - AMD and Raptr Take on NVIDIA’s GeForce Experience with New AMD Gaming Evolved Utility
15:01 - AMD and DICE Bring Low-Level, High-Performance Graphics API To PCs With "Mantle"
17:45 - Microsoft Takes Another Stab at Tablets, Unveils Surface 2 and Surface 2 Pro
21:36 - Time To Cut Microsoft Some Slack, Surface 2 Shows They Understand Mobile

Tags: AMD, Radeon, Apple, iPhone, Microsoft, graphics, Geeks, webcast, Surface 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