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Episode 44: Google I/O roundup covering Assistant, Lens, Photos, and more

Play Episode Listen Later May 18, 2017 26:56


PCWorld editors Jon Phillips, Mark Hachman, and Michael Simon go over some of the biggest news out of Google I/O 2017. Starting with Google Assistant's new features, moving to Google Lens and how it is a souped up Google Goggles, and finishing with Google Photos updates. The Right or Wrong segment asks the question: "Is it ok that Google I/O was a quiet event?"

Episode 43: Microsoft Surface Laptop, Windows 10 S, Samsung Galaxy S8, and Twitter shows

Play Episode Listen Later May 3, 2017 40:15


On Episode 43 of the PCWorld Show, the gang talks about Surface Laptop, Windows 10 S, Galaxy S8 and Twitter's new video ambitions.

Episode 42: Windows 10 Creators Update arrives, Samsung unveils the GS8, Intel Optane, and more

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 29, 2017 35:46


This week, Jon Phillips, Melissa Riofrio and Mark Hachman reveal the coolest features in the new Windows 10 Creators Update; talk about what makes the Samsung Galaxy S8 so appealing; and lament the broken promises of Intel Optane. The gangs ends the show with a debate on whether the Galaxy S8 can help people forget about Samsung's boom-boom battery problems.

Episode 41: The other Ryzen shoe drops, Samsung S8 and Apple squeezes out more iPads.

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 22, 2017 40:34


This week Jon Phillips, Gordon Mah Ung and Jason Cross talk about AMD's crazy powerful, and crazy cheap Ryzen CPUs, detail the latest on the Samsung S8 and yawn about Apple's new iPad. In this week's Right or Wrong: Can you survive on a 12-hour flight without your laptop and tablet?

Episode 40: Android Apps On Chromebook, EVGA's Radical Card, Intel Coffee Lake, and Pokemon Go.

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 15, 2017 29:45


This week Jon Phillips, Gordon Mah Ung and Melissas Riofrio show and tell a Samsung Chromebook that runs Android apps out of the box and EVGA's latest GeForce GTX 1080 that goes overboard on the cooling. The PCWorld crew also tells you if Moore's Law is dead. In this week's Right or Wrong: will new Pokemon's reanimate the excitement or not.

Episode 39: Windows 10 Cloud, MacBook Pro Battery Life, 7 nm Chips On Deck, and more.

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 1, 2017 37:12


This week Jon Phillips, Gordon Mah Ung and Melissa Riofrio talk about Microsoft's alleged Chrome OS killer, why the MacBook Pro's battery life can be whacky and why Moore's Law is alive and well. In this week's Right or Wrong: "You need a $600 tablet."

Episode 38: HP Omen X, Note 7 Hold Outs, Consumer Reports VS MacBook Pro, and a new MacBook Pro 17?

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 24, 2017 35:38


This week Jon Phillips, Gordon Mah Ung and Melissa Riofrio show off HP's crazy Omen X, try to figure out just why people won't give up their Samsung Note 7 phones and debate whether Consumer Reports did Apple wrong. In this week's Right or Wrong: "Should Apple make a MacBook Pro 17?"

Episode 37: The best and worse of CES and does it even matter anymore?

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 11, 2017 43:38


This week Jon Phillips, Mark Hachman and Melissa Riofrio tell you what the winners and losers of CES were. These veterans of the show then tell you what it's like to actually attend and then ponder whether CES even matters anymore.

Episode 36: AMD's Zen gets a name, Windows on ARM and Surface outsells Mac?

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 11, 2017 40:35


This week Jon Phillips, Gordon Mah Ung and Melissa Riofrio tell you what AMD's Zen will be named, tell you why Windows on ARM does and doesn't matter and then question if Surface is really outselling MacBook. On this week's Right or Wrong: Do you want a foldable phone?

Episode 35: MacBook Pro vs. Surface Book, the year's best and worst products and Windows hub

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 7, 2016 38:33


This week Jon Phillips, Gordon Mah Ung and Melissa Riofrio talk MacBook Pro vs. Surface Book, Microsoft's "famtana" and name the Best and Worst products. On this week's Right or Wrong: Will Intel soon be using AMD graphics?

Episode 34: Game of Thrones CPU style, Intel Inside your car and The Simpson's Did It.

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 1, 2016 36:20


This week Jon Phillips, Gordon Mah Ung and Mark Hachman try to figure out if AMD's Zen will be House Stark to Intel's House Lannister. Will your car soon have an Intel Inside sticker on it? And yipee! Facebook will soon push games into your news feed too. On this week's Right or Wrong: Did Apple steal the idea for its SSD backup rig from The Simpsons?

Episode 33: Apple's iBook, how thin is too thin and fake news

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 17, 2016 35:49


This week Jon Phillips, Melissa Riofrio, and Gordon Mah Ung talk about Apple's new $300 navel-gazing book and debate how far is too far when trading performance for a thin profile laptop. Finally, the crew discusses the problems with "fake" news and in this week's Wrong or Right? Jon surprises all with a gigantic device.

Episode 32: PC show and tell, LeEco launch and what's wrong with the MacBook Pro?

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 19, 2016 38:03


This week Jon Phillips, Melissa Riofrio and Gordon Mah Ung do a hardware show and tell of Lenovo's unique Yoga Book, and HP's updated Spectre X360 and Omen 17. Melissa also fills us in on the latest brand you've probably never heard of: LeEco. Finally, Gordon takes a look a look at almost four years of the MacBook Pro 15 and shakes his head. And Wrong or Right: Paying $769 for a phone is insane.

Episode 31: The Note7 is dead, cylinder PC's and Mac sales dive

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 13, 2016 35:20


This week Jon Phillips, Melissa Riofrio, and Gordon Mah Ung discuss the premature death of Samsung's Note7 and the sudden influx of new "cylinder PCs." And it turns out even Mac users don't want to buy ancient hardware anymore as Macintosh sales drop like a rock. Finally in this week's Right or Wrong: Will there even be a Samsung Note 8?

Episode 30: Google Pixel phone, Google Home and Intel Kaby Lake

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 6, 2016 34:02


This week Jon Phillips, Jason Cross and Gordon Mah Ung talk Google Pixel phone and what it's missing. The gang also details Google Home and Gordon gets confused by Hangouts, Assistant, Allo and Google Now. Finally Gordon shows off a pair of Dell XPS 13 laptops one of which has Intel's latest 7th Gen Kaby Lake CPU inside.

Episode 29: Samsung Note7 recall, Google Pixel phones and Tesla car hack

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 22, 2016 42:22


This week Jon Phillips, Jason Cross and Gordon Mah Ung tell you the latest on Samsung's Note7 fiasco, mull Google's Pixel phone rumors and pass judgement on how serious the Tesla car hack is. And Right or Wrong: Is the Samsung Note7 the new Ford Pinto?

Episode 28: Apple kills the analog port, PlayStation 4 Pro does 4K gaming and "courage."

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 8, 2016 42:22


Jon, Melissa and Gordon discuss Apple's iPhone 7 moves, Gordon details the Sony PlayStation 4 Pro and Melissa tells us the EU won't make PC vendors sell computers without an OS. Right or Wrong: Did Apple go too far when it used the word "courage" to describe an iPhone feature?

Episode 27: More Kaby Lake, Win10 Mobile, and IFA.

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 7, 2016 37:17


This week Jon Phillips, Mark Hachman and Melissa Riofrio discuss talk more about Kaby Lake, Windows 10 Mobile and the hot hardware from the big IFA trade show in Berlin. And Right or Wrong: Chromebook's end of life cycle.

Episode 26: IDF, AMD Zen, and Microsoft's Holographic Processing Unit

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 25, 2016 32:22


This week Jon Phillips, Brad Chacos, and Mark Hachman discuss news from the Intel Developer Forum, whether AMD Zen is competitive against Nvidia, and Microsoft's Holographic Processing Unit. Also Right or Wrong? Was IDF a big deal for PC Enthusiasts?

Episode 25: Samsung Note 7, Facebook ad blocking blocking and MacBook Pro updates

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 11, 2016 37:31


This week Jon Phillips, Florence Ion and Gordon Mah Ung talk Samsung Note 7 and tell you want happened to the Note 6. Facebook starts blocking ad blockers (who are already blocking the ad blocking blocks). And Gordon tries to get Mac users up in arms over their future. And Right or Wrong: Amazon Prime planes.

Episode 24: Windows 10 Anniversary Update, The Deadline, AMD SSD+GPU and Tim Sweeney

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 27, 2016 32:28


This week Jon Phillips, Mark Hachman and Gordon Mah Ung discuss the upcoming forced Windows 10 Anniversary Update, The Deadline is Nigh! and AMD combines an SSD with a GPU. Finally Tim Sweeney's allegations that Microsoft WILL kill Steam and Right or Wrong: Verizon buying Yahoo.

Episode 23: Pokemon, Seagate's 10TB HDD and ARM gets bought up

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 21, 2016 31:52


This week Jon Phillips, Jason Cross and Gordon Mah Ung discuss the Pokemon madness, Seagate's gigantic new hard drive and what the future of ARM is. Right or Wrong: Is Twitter's verification policy good for mankind?

Episode 21: Windows 10 Upgrade Deadline, MS pays man $10K for botched install and RX480

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 13, 2016 29:45


This week Jon Phillips, Melissa Riofrio and Brad Chacos talk about the impending Windows 10 upgrade deadline and what you should do. And how an Area Man was paid $10,000 by Microsoft over a forced Win10 upgrade that went bad. More info on the RX-480 and why one man is suing Apple for $10 billion dollars. And yes, it's out of order this week.

Episode 22: Tesla feels heat after man dies using auto-pilot, is a Microsoft Surface desktop coming?

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 6, 2016 31:28


This week Jon Phillips, Melissa Riofrio and Gordon Mah Ung discuss the first reported fatality from autonomous driving, Black Berry kills its classic keyboard and rumors of a Microsoft Surface desktop get batted around. Right or Wrong: Can AMD recover from reports that its new budget GPU is killing PCs?

Episode 20: T-mobile free pizza! Thunderbolt 3 is winning, Digital Storm's monster PC

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 8, 2016 33:21


This week Jon Phillips, Mark Hachman and Gordon Mah Ung won't eat the free pizza T-mobile is giving away, Thunderbolt 3 is finally "winning" and here's what Digital Storm's $8,500 exotic PC sounds like. Right or Wrong: Is it wrong to run Android on an iPhone?

Episode 19: Backpack PCs, AMD's new cheap Radeon and wait three years for an iPhone?

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 1, 2016 30:55


This week Jon Phillips, Mark Hachman and Gordon Mah Ung ponder if backpack PCs are now a thing. The crew also details AMD's new super affordable yet fast Radeon RX480 and if you'll have to wait three years for an iPhone. Finally in this week's Right or Wrong: Did Intel go over the line by asking $1,723 for its new Core i7?

Episode 18: More Windows 10 trickery, Windows Phone and Twitter

Play Episode Listen Later May 26, 2016 33:10


This week Jon Phillips, Brad Chacos and Gordon Mah Ung talk about the latest trickery Microsoft is using to get people to upgrade to Windows 10 and you're not going to be happy with it. The crew also discusses Windows Phone dying a little more and Twitter "upgrades." Finally this week's Right or Wrong: Should you uninstall Windows 10 if Microsoft duped you into installing it?

Episode 17: Google Home, Android Auto, Allo and Duo

Play Episode Listen Later May 18, 2016 25:44


This week Jon Phillips, Mark Hachman and Melissa Riofrio talk all things Google I/O including: The Goog's knock off of Amazon's Echo, Android Auto, and Allo and Duo.

Episode 16: Windows 10 upgrade deadline, GeForce GTX 1080 and is Facebook slanting the news?

Play Episode Listen Later May 12, 2016 31:56


This week Jon Phillips, Brad Chacos, and Gordon Mah Ung dish on Nvidia's wickedly fast GeForce GTX 1080 and whether you should worry about that fast approaching Windows 10 upgrade deadline. Finally, the crew addresses allegations that Facebook is intentionally censoring conservative news.

Episode 15: iPhone 6s vs. Galaxy S7, XPS 15 vs. MacBook Pro 13 and 1% Burning Man

Play Episode Listen Later May 4, 2016 37:15


This week Jon Phillips, Florence Ion and Gordon Mah Ung discuss whether the iPhone 6s takes better pictures than the Galaxy S7. Gordon pits an XPS 15 against a MacBook Pro 13 and the results aren't pretty. The crew also weighs in on a tech-focused Burning Man festival without the hippies and stink. Oh, and there's catering and probably room service too.

Episode 14: Apple sales fall, Intel throws the PC under the bus and can AI play foosball?

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 27, 2016 33:59


This week Jon Phillips, Mark Hachman and Gordon Mah Ung discuss whether the end is nigh for Apple, Intel throwing the PC under the bus (again) and mull whether the Internet should be optimized for a 9600 baud modem or not. Also: Can AI really play a human at foosball while holding a beer in one hand and win?

Episode 13: Intel layoffs, Apple QuickTime, new MacBook and a Smarttress

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 21, 2016 33:11


This week Jon Phillips, Melissa Riofrio and Gordon Mah Ung discuss Intel's massive layoffs, Apple screwing over millions of PC users with QuickTime, the new MacBook and a "smart" mattress that lets you know if you're getting cheated on.

Episode 12: HTC 10, LG G5, PC sales tank and a 10 core chip?!

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 14, 2016 32:01


This week Jon Phillips, Jason Cross and Gordon Mah Ung discuss HTC's new 10, why Jon flosses the new LG G5 twice a day and WTF, PC sales just fell through the floor. Also: Is a 10-core CPU in your PC's future?

Episode 11: Nvidia's new Pascal, self-racing cars, HTC Vive, Surface Hub and Phone

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 7, 2016 35:37


This week Jon Phillips, Melissa Riofrio, and Gordon Mah Ung discuss Nvidia's monster new Pascal GPU, self-racing cars, and why you should and shouldn't buy HTC's Vive. Also: Microsoft's $22,000 ginormous Surface Hub and whether Surface Phone will save smart phones for the company.

Episode 10: HoloLens, PC Gaming and Smart Bots

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 30, 2016 28:45


This week Jon Phillips, Mark Hacman and Gordon Mah Ung discuss the latest on the cool-ass HoloLens, PC Gaming (fixed!), Smart bots and more from Microsoft's Build Developer Conference. Finally, will the banned twitter bot Tay ever come back?

Episode 9: Apple disses the PC, Intel quits Tick Tock and Microsoft's millennial Twitterbot.

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 23, 2016 28:17


This week Jon Phillips, Melissa Riofrio and Gordon Mah Ung discuss Apple's new iPad Air 3 and the company disrespecting 600 million PC users. We also tell you why Intel just gave up on its tick tock and how it impacts you and wonder if Microsoft's new AI Twitterbot aimed at millennials is creepy or an insult to them. Finally, can Apple "win" against the FBI?

Episode 8: Did Microsoft trick you into upgrading Windows? AMD Radeon Pro Duo and PC Gaming

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 17, 2016 27:54


This week Jon Phillips, Brad Chacos and Gordon Mah Ung discuss why people are pissed off at Microsoft for trying to trick people into upgrading to Windows 10, talk about AMD's Radeon Pro Duo and why it may be the fastest GPU no one will ever buy and give you the state of the PC Gaming market.

Episode 7: Is Microsoft going to wall off PC gaming? Skype Translator and native Opera ad blocking

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 10, 2016 29:29


This week Jon Phillips, Mark Hachman and Gordon Mah Ung discuss allegations that Microsoft is heading toward a "walled garden" for PC gaming and Opera adds native ad blocking. Mark also talks about his speed dating experience using Skype translator. And if you don't listen to this, we might just give you a negative review on the new Peeple app.

Episode 6: LG and Samsung's new flagship phones, 8TB hard drives and HoloLens pricing

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 2, 2016 27:57


This week Jon Phillips, Florence Ion, and Gordon Mah Ung discuss the latest flagship phones from LG and Samsung, discuss WD's new 8TB USB hard drive and tel you how much Microsoft HoloLens is gonna cost. And yes, you better be sitting down.

Episode 5: Is software protected by the First Amendment? And: GeForce and Radeon working together?!

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 24, 2016 23:03


This week Jon Phillips, Susie Ochs and Gordon Mah Ung discuss whose side does Bill Gates took in the FBI vs. Apple battle, whether software is protected by the First Amendment. Also: hell freezes over because you'll soon be able to use a GeForce with a Radeon in the same PC for gaming. Smart watches outsell Swiss watches and is an "always on" smart phone the next big thing?

Episode 4: Apple vs. FBI, Microsoft's modular PC, Japanese Super Band and a Gold XPS 13?

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 18, 2016 20:42


This week Jon, Melissa and Gordon discuss Apple's showdown with the FBI and a modular desktop PC from Microsoft. Also: VAIO, Toshiba and Fujitsu may join forces to form one big super PC team and who cares about gold computing?

Episode 3: Intel overclocking, self-driving cars, Surface and 4K Blu-ray Feb. 10, 2016

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 11, 2016 24:29


This week Jon, Melissa and Gordon discuss why Intel shut down the cheap overclocking party, ponder if a computer should be considered the "driver" of a car, and question if the Surface Pro's Super Bowl success matters. We also discuss whether it's too late for 4K UltraHD Blu-ray in a world of streaming.

Episode 2: The PCWorld Podcast. Recorded 2/3/16

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 3, 2016 30:08


This week we discuss tanking tablet sales, Microsoft buying Swiftkey, a VAIO Windows phone and ponder if USB Type C or USB-C is pain in the tuchas.

This week we discuss Surfacegate, tech leaks and the rumored tiny iPhone

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 29, 2016 20:24


Was there a vast conspiracy to rob the Patriots of an AFC title? We address exactly what happened with the Patriot's Microsoft Surface problems, the problem with tech leaks and wonder if anyone really wants a tiny phone again.

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