PC Perspective Podcast

We recorded it early this week, due to some scheduling issues, but we still made a podcast that will live on forever as one of the greatest ever made. If you don't have high standards. Do take the time to enjoy the discussion on generous Hackers and that your VPN probably sucks.

Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:23 Food with Josh
05:13 Intel's baseline profile evolves into Intel Default Settings
13:38 Apple announces new iPads and the M4 processor
21:30 iOS device fingerprinting a problem?
24:47 Microsoft brings MT/s to task manager
27:37 Remembering Robert Dennard, inventor of DRAM
30:59 Backblaze reports slight improvement in HDD lifespans
35:55 BASIC turns 60
37:54 (in)Security Corner
47:31 Gaming Quick Hits
57:22 Picks of the Week
1:14:15 Outro

After a couple of weeks we are back at full strength, and it will take our combined willpower to withstand the might of NVIDIA's ridiculous earnings report. We also talked about the reported listings for a 400W Core i9-14900KS, took a look at Corsair's A115 air cooler, and Josh reviewed some food. And also you can now trade one benevolent OS vendor for another with a Windows 10 -> ChromeOS upgrade! Plus other topics, found in the time stamps below.

Recorded February 21, 2024.

Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
02:14 Food with Josh
05:18 NVIDIA's insane quarter (is this AI stuff sustainable?)
18:49 Intel Foundry news
23:21 Reports of a 400W Intel Core i9-14900KS
26:15 AMD paused the RX 7600 XT launch in China due to competition from AMD
27:28 A brief mention of the new Cooler Master AiO lawsuit
28:29 Ryzen 8000G STAPM issue was fixed
33:46 Google Flexes a ChromeOS alternative to Windows 11
36:28 Josh talks about Arm
44:51 (in)Security Corner
56:13 Gaming Quick Hits
59:40 (GQH continues) Intel CPUs causing Unreal Engine crashes?
1:07:57 Corsair A115 air cooler tested
1:17:14 Picks of the Week
1:27:17 Outro

Ryan may not be back this week, but I'm sure viewers won't tune out in droves. Right? Right?? Hello??? No one left, eh? Well, we did a podcast anyway. So much ARM, too much for ARC, and AMD Polaris / Vega is forsaken. All that and more in the subjects below.

Timestamps:

00:00 Intro
02:03 Burger of the Week
04:29 Arc News: Get your $1949 A770-equipped Alienware today!
07:19 AMD begins retirement of Vega and Polaris
08:45 New Starfield Steam Beta brings DLSS and PC optimizations
10:56 Mac DirectX game porting
16:00 Imagination has a DX11 GPU
19:03 Arm invests in Pi
25:11 Intel killed off Cryo cooling in July and media just noticed
31:20 Security Corner
38:11 Gaming Quick Hits
50:35 Picks of the Week
1:06:46 Outro

We decided to podcast yet again this week because, honestly, you demand it (you know who you are). The show must go on, and we had a lot to talk about this week - and sometimes we even sounded halfway intelligent! Like when we talked about the new Radeon cards, which bring the promise of $450+ midrange cards to AMD buyers. And we looked at the very compact - and ridiculously well-equipped - FragBox from Falcon Northwest (you know, that little PC that looks like a Playmate cooler?).

Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:39 Food with Josh
03:13 AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT and RX 7700 XT announced
12:08 Finally an update on FSR 3
14:39 Is MSI giving up on Radeon?
18:10 Mandatory Arc News: Battlemage in the lab already?
19:45 Starfield bundle going for a bundle
21:41 AMD warns of fake Starfield bundles
24:11 That ASUS mobo GPU power connector uses a server standard
27:41 Podcast sponsor - DeleteMe
29:18 Security Corner
41:23 Gaming Quick Hits
47:00 EPOS Impact 1060 professional headset review
57:14 Falcon Northwest FragBox review
1:12:34 Picks of the Week
1:23:20 Outro

You will be pleased to learn that we did indeed get together on Wednesday night (at 10 Eastern) to podcast this week. Here is the edited version of that podcast recording session. Within you find side-quests, insights, food, camera lens talk - and tech. Lots of tech talk on such things like Microsoft making terrible decisions, bad security theater, and idle data. Join us.

Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:41 Food with Josh
03:29 XFX Mercury RX 7900 XTX Magnetic Air (false start)
06:08 The review actually begins here
17:21 Boring camera lens talk
19:31 Microsoft makes OneDrive backups automatic
22:40 Microsoft hides the local account option even more
23:31 PSA: you don't actually have to use Windows
26:46 The great Optane 905P fire sale of 2024
30:30 Amazon moves Alexa to a subscription model
33:19 Seagate opens official eBay store for refurb HDDs
37:26 Most stored data is never accessed again
41:28 (in)Security Corner
44:33 We interrupt (in)Security Corner to talk about seamless integration
46:12 Back to (in)Security Corner
54:27 Gaming Quick Hits
1:03:08 Picks of the Week
1:18:16 Outro