PCPer Podcast #115 - Slate of the Nation, Quadro 5000, silicon photonics, StarCraft II and more!

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This week we talk about the Slate of the Nation, NVIDIA's Quadro 5000

card, 50 Gbps silicon photonics, StarCraft II and AMD's AA stance,

Apple dropping NVIDIA from systems, emails, hardware picks of the week

and more!

 

URL: http://pcper.com/podcast

 

Program schedule:

 

0:01:00 Introduction

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0:02:30 Slate of the Nation - Your Guide to Upcoming Slate Devices

0:12:35 ASUS N61Jv Optimus Core i5 16-in Notebook Review

0:20:35 CARBONITE AD

0:21:40 NVIDIA Quadro 5000 2.5GB Fermi-based Professional Graphics Review

0:33:20 Intel Demonstrates 50 Gbps Silicon Photonics, Could Replace

Electronic Signals

0:41:20 MSI AD

0:42:30 AMD's Gaming Evolved Program Pushes Dev Tools, Marketing

0:46:05 AMD on StarCraft II: Anti-aliasing will come when performance is better

0:51:20 Apple drops NVIDIA from most default systems, brings on ATI

0:54:40 Quakecon 2010 - PC Perspective Hardware Workshop on August 14th

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0:56:55 Email from Stuart about PSUs for SLI GTX 480s

1:00:50 Email from Josh about SSDs in Linux

1:06:15 Email from Steven about StarCraft II

1:09:45 Email from Blockman Bing about power consumption

1:16:14 Voicemail from Brian from Ann Arbor

1:18:55 Hardware / Software Pick of the Week

Ryan: Gimp for Windows - because even though I pay for Adobe CS5 I'm

not allowed to use it where I want.

Jeremy: Starcraft 2 (but only if you played the 1st+expansion

otherwise you have to buy them and play them first) or Alien Swarm

Josh: MSI GTX460 Cyclone 1 GB

Allyn: Portable Apps (includes GIMP)

Jon: Eneloop batteries - Leave it to Apple to sell you "innovation".

Get Eneloops instead. Cheaper. Better.

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1:26:45 Closing

 

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Ryan Shrout

PC Perspective

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