HotHardware's Two and A Half Geeks 8/29/13: Moto X, Back to School Guide, Alienware 18, Windows 8.1

by Marco Chiappetta — Thursday, August 29, 2013, 10:35 AM EDT

In this latest episode of HotHardware's Two and Half Geeks Webcast, Iyaz, Dave and Marco discuss Motorola's Moto X smartphone, HotHardware's Back to School Shopping Guide, which lists some of the hottest mobile devices and small form factor PCs this season, Alienware's powerful ALW 18 Gaming Notebook, Windows 8.1’s impending release and Zotac’s ZBox Nano ID65 Plus...

Show Notes:
01:00 – Moto X Smartphone Preview
06:21 – HotHardware's 2013 Back To School Shopping Guide
09:44 – Alienware 18 Notebook: Haswell, GeForce GTX 780M
14:18 – Windows 8.1 Set For Launch October 18th, What You Need to Know
22:30 – Zotac ZBOX Nano ID65 Plus Out NUCs Intel

Tags: shopping, Microsoft, Zotac, Windows, podcast, Geeks, guide, Alienware, webcast, Moto X

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