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Wednesday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 10:00 PM on October 10, 2012 Eight is Enough Reuters: Microsoft CEO sees company becoming more like Apple PCWorld: Ballmer sees his bonus cut, Hastings leaves Microsoft board Fudzilla:... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	39
Tuesday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 7:26 PM on October 9, 2012 Eight is Enough C\|Net: Google to co-brand 10" Nexus tablet with Samsung Fudzilla: Intel plans few more Ivy Bridge Pentiums and Nvidia GTX... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	30
Columbus Day Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 12:00 AM on October 8, 2012 Eight is Enough Oops: Microsoft sends takedown request to BBC, Wikipedia, and the U.S. government - Neowin The Atlantic: How Google builds it... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	46
Sunday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 9:32 AM on October 7, 2012 The Fierce Five Ars Technica on the ghost of Jobs: Apple's challenge to decide "what would Steve do?" The Powerbase: hp hiring... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	18
Saturday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 11:37 AM on October 6, 2012 Eight is Enough Bloomberg: Foxconn workers on iPhone lines strike, labor group says SlashGear: Apple will require approval for third-party Lightning accessories ZDNet:... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	35
Friday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 6:40 PM on October 5, 2012 Eight is Enough Intel's Haswell architecture analyzed at AnandTech: Building a new PC and a new Intel Fudzilla: Intel Z87 Haswell chipset... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	23
Thursday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 10:46 PM on October 4, 2012 Eight is Enough Fudzilla: AMD Trinity overclocked to 7.3GHz and FM2 socket motherboards available in the USA and Nvidia GTX 650 Ti... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	27
Wednesday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 9:47 PM on October 3, 2012 7 Up Epic Gamers: Cliff Bleszinski departs Epic Fudzilla: Chip price war likely and Trinity is here, now how about some Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	24
Tuesday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 10:30 PM on October 2, 2012 Eight is Enough Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen's take on Windows 8 New AMD A-series processors officially launch CPU World: Second generation AMD APUs... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	51
Monday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 8:13 PM on October 1, 2012 Eight is Enough IHS iSuppli: 2012 forecast for Ultrabooks is slashed as pricing and marketing disappoint X-bit labs: AMD teams up with Oracle... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	37
Rumor: Asus might snatch ASRock by Cyril Kowaliski — 6:00 AM on October 1, 2012 Further consolidation may be afoot in the motherboard market. According to SemiAccurate's Charlie... Type: News story Tags: Motherboards	48
Sunday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 9:07 PM on September 30, 2012 7 Up Microsoft Enterprise Insights: Deploying Windows 8 within Microsoft Who's watching? 3D TV no hit with viewers - USA Today CENS.com: SSD... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	22
Saturday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 6:18 PM on September 29, 2012 7 Up X-bit labs: Despite PC market slowdown, shipments of hard drives set to be record - analysts VR-Zone's exclusive update - Ivy Bridge-E... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	41
Friday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 12:18 PM on September 28, 2012 7 Up ZDNet: BlueStacks and AMD bring Android apps to Windows 8 Fudzilla: Desktop Trinity coming next week in OEM flavor DigiTimes:... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	44
Thursday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 12:00 AM on September 27, 2012 Eight is Enough We really do think Windows 8 is great, Intel says - C\|Net AllThingsD: Apple-Google Maps talks crashed over voice-guided... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	34
Wednesday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 4:44 PM on September 26, 2012 The Pick 6 X-bit labs: Intel discontinues Core i "Sandy Bridge" microprocessors and Samsung reveals SSDs based on 21nm NAND flash memory Fudzilla:... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	46
Tuesday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 5:46 PM on September 25, 2012 Eight is Enough VentureBeat: Cable TV giants might be plotting cloud gaming service to take on Xbox, PlayStation Reuters: Google says Maps not... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	26
Motherboard makers brace for sales slump by Cyril Kowaliski — 9:47 AM on September 25, 2012 In the PC hardware business, as in many others, sales tend to peak around the holiday season and slow in the cold winter months afterward.... Type: News story Tags: Motherboards	56

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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. +25

chuckula

Good idea, and to expand on this point: A whole lot of people have already given... +24

Alexko

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

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