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Sunday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 5:05 AM on January 8, 2012 7 Up hp Spectre teaser: part 2 Netbooknews.com: Asus confirms Win8 ARM tablet, 3G Transformer in March & new 10" tablet OMG Ubuntu reports... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	12
Saturday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 8:11 AM on January 7, 2012 7 Up The NY Times: Hackers threaten to post source code for Symantec product Things to look forward to in 2012: Branding... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	15
Deal of the week: Game pre-orders, PSUs, and notebook RAM by Cyril Kowaliski — 5:22 PM on January 6, 2012 Let's start this week's post with a few game pre-order deals. We're all excited about some of the releases coming this year, and Amazon... Type: News story Tags: Power Storage Memory Gaming	26
Jobs Report Friday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 9:09 AM on January 6, 2012 7 Up DigiTimes: Apple to ship 'iPad 3' in March, 'iPad 4' in October, say Taiwan component makers Engadget: ZiiLabs debuts '100-core' ZMS-40... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	18
Chrome 17 to check downloads for malware, preload pages by Cyril Kowaliski — 6:00 AM on January 6, 2012 In light of Google's frantic browser release cycle, fresh versions of Chrome aren't always terribly noteworthy. According to the latest update on the Google... Type: News story Tags: Internet Software	26
Thursday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 9:04 AM on January 5, 2012 Eight is Enough Intel: One to watch at CES, says Citi - Barron's Intel: Piper CIO survey finds servers good, PCs bad... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	20
IE6's demise celebrated... by Microsoft by Cyril Kowaliski — 5:34 PM on January 4, 2012 Of all people, Microsoft is cheering Internet Explorer 6's long-awaited decline into irrelevance. In a post on the Windows Blog yesterday, the company revealed... Type: News story Tags: Internet Software	56
Wednesday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 4:54 AM on January 4, 2012 Eight is Enough AllThingsD's exclusive: Yahoo! poised to name CEO—with eBay's PayPal prez as top choice EETimes reports engineers arrested for selling Intel... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	17
Tuesday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 1:50 AM on January 3, 2012 Eight is Enough The NY Times: How Samuel Palmisano of IBM stayed a step ahead TechCrunch: This month's Apple event to focus... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	28
Monday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 1:23 AM on January 2, 2012 Eight is Enough PCWorld on processors: What to expect from CPUs in 2012 Akiba PC Hotline: AMD A8-3870K overclocked to 5.88GHz (in... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	32
New Year's Day Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 12:00 AM on January 1, 2012 Eight is Enough Phandroid: Asus Transformer Prime 32GB now available at Office Depot Android Police: Asus Transformer Prime GPS performs very poorly without... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	18
New Year's Eve Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 5:11 PM on December 31, 2011 7 Up FoxNews: Verizon bows to critics, drops plans for $2 'convenience' charge Ars Technica reports researchers publish open source tool for hacking... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	33
Deal of the week: Cheap games, bargain-priced SSDs and RAM by Cyril Kowaliski — 5:05 PM on December 30, 2011 The Christmas shopping rush is behind us now, but the holiday deals are not. There are some particularly nice bargains to be had among downloadable... Type: News story Tags: Graphics Storage Memory Gaming	14
Facebook releases Messenger app for Windows by Cyril Kowaliski — 6:00 AM on December 30, 2011 If you're running Windows 7 and trust Mark Zuckerberg to keep your social life cataloged, unwelcome messages from relatives and distant acquaintances can now be... Type: News story Tags: Software	34
Friday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 12:00 AM on December 30, 2011 7 Up Mac Rumors: Apple's multi-user face recognition plans for iPad revealed in patent Chips: Piper Jaffray sees rising prospects from tablets,... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	34
Thursday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 2:56 AM on December 29, 2011 Eight is Enough MobileBeat's exclusive: hp wanted $1.2B for webOS and Palm's assets Gigabyte firmware (BIOS) update on certain X79 series motherboard... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	22
XBMC 11.0 now out in beta by Geoff Gasior — 10:40 AM on December 28, 2011 XBMC has come a long way since its humble beginnings as a media player for hacked Xbox consoles. The software is now available in a... Type: News story Tags: Software	30
Wednesday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 2:48 AM on December 28, 2011 Eight is Enough Reuters: Italy anti-trust fines Apple for misleading customers Tweak.dk: Gigabyte recalls the GA-X79-UD3, GA-X79-UD5, and G1.Assassin 2 motherboards Ars Technica: Samsung... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	4

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tipoo

It's not a benchmark suggestion, but a benchmark*ing* suggestion, I've always wanted to see more older CPUs thrown into what benchmarks they can to sh...

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lilbuddhaman

Obligatory "what about Higher resolution desktop monitors" post. +26

chuckula

Good idea, and to expand on this point: A whole lot of people have already given... +25

Alexko

"Quark, drunk on money, power, and an estimated 90% market share, started behavi... +24

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