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Monday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 4:16 PM on October 15, 2012 The Pick 6 VR-Zone: U.S. presidential candidates data mine voters with cookies TechNewsWorld: Which distros would Obama and Romney use? CENS.com: TSMC... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	15
Sunday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 2:58 PM on October 14, 2012 The Pick 6 Windows 8 is coming soon (video) TorrentFreak: AT&T starts six-strikes anti- piracy plan next month, will block websites Engaget: Apple, other... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	19
Saturday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 12:32 PM on October 13, 2012 The Fierce Five Acer CEO: Microsoft's Surface tablet threatens its long-time PC partners PCWorld: Dell to continue offering Windows 7 after lauch... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	54
Multiple sources say AMD plans more layoffs by Geoff Gasior — 5:23 PM on October 12, 2012 A couple of weeks ago, we caught wind of a rumor suggesting AMD was preparing to cut its work force to less than 10,000... Type: News story Tags: CPUs Graphics	118
Deal of the week: Cheap SSDs, gaming bundles, and more by Cyril Kowaliski — 5:03 PM on October 12, 2012 OCZ seems to be suffering the effects of its overly aggressive SSD pricing strategy, but for now, the getting's good—so long as you're a... Type: News story Tags: Graphics Storage Gaming Operating systems Windows	11
Friday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 12:06 PM on October 12, 2012 7 Up CPU World: Boxed AMD FX-8350 has surfaced on eBay Fudzilla: MSI announces HD 7970 Lightning Boost Edition Videogamer.com: This is what... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	17
AMD: Revenue, margin to shrink more than expected by Cyril Kowaliski — 9:32 AM on October 12, 2012 Alas, poor AMD. We already knew PC shipment forecasts for the third quarter weren't looking too good. Now, AMD has announced that its third-quarter... Type: News story Tags: CPUs Graphics	44
Thursday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 7:03 PM on October 11, 2012 Eight is Enough Gartner and IDC: PC shipments tumbled over 8% in Q3, only Asus and Lenovo escaped unhurt Eric Schmidt: Android-Apple is... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	37
ARM links SoC components with terabit interconnect by Geoff Gasior — 11:49 AM on October 11, 2012 ARM has its eyes set on the high-performance computing market. To help with that mission, it's developed a new interconnect to link multiple cores... Type: News story Tags: CPUs Graphics Servers	21
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
Latest GeForce drivers have full Win8 WHQL support by Cyril Kowaliski — 1:13 PM on October 10, 2012 I should set a keyboard macro so I don't keep having to type "Windows 8" again and again this month. I guess you can't fault... Type: News story Tags: Graphics	10
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
Review: Nvidia's GeForce GTX 650 Ti graphics card by Cyril Kowaliski — 8:00 AM on October 9, 2012 Nvidia's new GeForce GTX 650 Ti fills the last great gap in the 600-series lineup, offering Kepler goodness between $149 and 179 or so.... Type: Feature article Tags: Graphics	98
AMD aims Z-60 APU at Win8 tablets, hybrids by Geoff Gasior — 11:01 PM on October 8, 2012 Windows 8 is coming, and it's bringing a wave of tablets and hybrid... Type: News story Tags: CPUs Graphics Mobile computing	66
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

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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... +24

Alexko

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

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