The TR Podcast 104: The rundown on CES 2012

	Date: January 22, 2012 Time: 1:58:46 Hosted by Jordan Drake Co-Hosts: Scott Wasson, Geoff Gasior, and Cyril Kowaliski Download: MP3 (85.5MB) | M4A (117.9MB) Subscribe: RSS (MP3) | RSS (M4A) iTunes (MP3) | iTunes (M4A)
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Footsore and skull-numbed, our panelists join us in this extra-long episode of the podcast to unload their collective brains of all they saw at CES 2011. The gang runs through everything from the mood and attendance at this year's show, to the latest and greatest in the cult of clicky keyboards, to whatever coolness Razer has to show this time around. As a bonus, Jordan reviews a slew of earbuds for smartphones.

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Listener mail/tweets:

To quality podcasting (0:01:11) - from Luke:

"I thoroughly enjoy your podcasts. They are informative, comprehensive, and interesting. The effort and care you put into them really shows.

I sometimes listen to a computer hardware podcast from one of your competitors, and their show appears to differ from yours in two ways: First, they don't pick out their topics until after they click record. And second, they consistently sound drunk.

So here's to quality podcasting, Luke

P.S. With all the talk about smoking and barbecuing over the last few months, don't you dare call this too off-topic to read on the show. =]"

32gb of RAM?(0:03:04) - from JMC:

"Ram is cheap enough now that I want to go for 32 gigs of ram. X79 sabertooth motherboard/3930. I thinking that I have a better chance of compatibility with 4 sticks of 8gig compared to 8 sticks of 4gig. Seems to always be iffy when you fill all ram slots. Have you heard of very many ram compatibility problems with X79 boards or am I probably quite safe buying a name brand like G-skill or Corsair?quot;

Tech discussion:

Transformer Prime's 1920x1200 display is more than meets the eye - (0:08:43) - Read more

Nvidia and Asus aim for $249 Tegra 3 tablet - (0:19:05) - Read more

Industry marches ahead with plans to copy, counter Apple - (0:24:02) - Read more

Lenovo's Yoga bends over backward to please us - (0:28:14) - Read more

Razer's 'Project Fiona' brings PC gaming to a tablet format - (0:34:01) - Read more

Razer brings Switchblade UI to standalone keyboard - (0:41:59) - Read more

7-series motherboard roundup - (0:46:35) - MSI - Gigabyte - Zotac

Sandy Bridge upgrades come to Zotac mini PCs - (0:48:22) - Read more

Cooler Master expands clicky keyboard lineup - (0:50:48) - Read more

Thermaltake brings rubber domes back in style - (0:54:41) - Read more

Jordan's smartphone/iPhone earbud roundup - (0:59:07) - Beats by Dre - Bose IE2 - Klipsch Image S4i - V-Moda Vibrato

Corsair adds quiet, budget additions to case lineup - (1:12:38) - Read more

Thermaltake Level 10 descends to budget territory - (1:16:39) - Read more

Trinity due mid-year in 17W, 35W variants - (1:19:58) - Read more

AMD fights thunder with lightning - (1:24:31) - Read more

OCZ, Marvell scale Kilimanjaro with PCIe SSD - (1:30:23) - Read more

OCZ demos next-gen Indilinx SSD controller - (1:35:19) - Read more

Lucid reaches for the clouds with GPU virtualization - (1:38:01) - Read more

CES 2012: the shape of things to come? - (1:48:56) - Read more

That's all, folks! We'll see you on the next episode.