The Anti-Consumer Electronics Show with Steve Burke
Better Offline
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4.6 • 687 Ratings
🗓️ 14 January 2026
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Ed Zitron is joined by Steve Burke of GamersNexus to talk about AMD, Lenovo, NVIDIA and Intel’s CES keynotes - and how the tech industry has turned its back on consumers in favor of growth.
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GamersNexus:
NVIDIA's AI Bubble: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFG3Ah-zf18
AMD Failed Us: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsCrKGY9F1o
Intel Pulls An NVIDIA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wNnLtsxNkY
"AMD & NVIDIA Abandoned This Segment" | Intel Arc GPU Factory Tour with Sparkle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwrUxG26ulk
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CES Videos:
Lenovo: https://youtu.be/vAa8ITmv54I?si=vfYqWhkbqGPa1avV&t=288
NVIDIA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NBILspM4c4
AMD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvBNWbFK2lY
Intel: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/events/ces.html
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:06.6 | CallZone Media. |
| 0:09.0 | Hello and welcome to Better Offline. |
| 0:11.3 | I'm your host at Zetron. We're back in the normal verse after 19 hours of CES coverage as ever buy the merchandise in the links in the show notes and subscribe to my freaking premium newsletter. |
| 0:34.1 | Got a banger of a beast coming out Friday. |
| 0:35.7 | But today we're talking once again to the |
| 0:37.8 | incredible Steve Burke of gamers nexus. How you doing, Steve? I'm doing well. How about you? |
| 0:42.9 | Doing all right after post CES and just feeling like I was drowning in nothing is the best way to put out. |
| 0:52.6 | Yeah, I mean, it was definitely the keynotes were a lot of air. |
| 0:58.1 | Yes. Yeah. I mean, we can start with invidia, I think, because I watched that one in person. And the |
| 1:05.4 | funniest thing was we get there and they're like there's, you have to do this. It's like a |
| 1:10.0 | massive line round around the corner. |
| 1:12.9 | And then there was a different line where everyone lined up only to find out that that was |
| 1:17.2 | actually the line for the viewing party. |
| 1:20.3 | And then they let us in and it was standing room only. |
| 1:24.1 | Then someone came around and said, actually, there are seats. |
| 1:27.0 | And then the actual |
| 1:28.5 | presentation felt like they just stapled together a few GTC speeches and then gave up. |
| 1:35.0 | Yeah. Like, go on. The NVIDA one was like, that one, I was watching with someone on the team, and I want to say the whole thing was maybe like 92 or 93 minutes and then they had the lead in as well and it was you know the the frustrating thing for me was they had actual news um so on the consumer side they had some news the like dLS 4.5 and some other stuff didn't really get a mention at all in the keynote. And then even on the enterprise side, it was like they bury the Vera Rubin stuff an hour deep. And they had published this huge article that was actually pretty interesting on their website about the architecture |
| 2:19.1 | and none of it made it in. |
| 2:22.7 | What was weird was a lot of the Vera Rubin stuff wasn't new though. |
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