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Thursday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 6:35 PM on October 18, 2012 Eight is Enough The new Chromebook, for everyone The Verge: With Surface looming, Microsoft fails to explain Windows 8 vs. Windows RT to... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	61
Wednesday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 6:06 PM on October 17, 2012 Eight is Enough CPU World: AMD to cut prices of A4-series APUs X-bit labs: Intel to start production of Haswell chips in... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	80
Tuesday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 5:08 PM on October 16, 2012 Eight is Enough WSJ: Microsoft plans large volume production of Surface VR-Zone: Softbank buys 70% stake in Sprint The Huffington Post: Linus Torvalds,... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	49
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
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
Office 2013 hits release-to-manufacturing status by Cyril Kowaliski — 6:00 AM on October 12, 2012 As we've pointed out before, Microsoft isn't just refreshing its PC and phone... Type: News story Tags: Software	22
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
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
AMD releases Radeon-branded RAMDisk software by Geoff Gasior — 11:11 AM on October 10, 2012 System RAM is pretty inexpensive these days. Dual-channel kits routinely serve up 8GB for as little as $40, making it easy for just about anyone... Type: News story Tags: Memory Software	118
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
The Atlantic digs into Google Maps' Ground Truth by Geoff Gasior — 12:50 PM on October 8, 2012 Google Maps has gotten a lot of praise lately, in part because the Apple Maps app that replaced it in iOS 6 has been somewhat... Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing Software	30
Firefox to nag users about plug-in updates by Cyril Kowaliski — 6:00 AM on October 8, 2012 Not keeping your browser plug-ins up to date can be dangerous. Security holes... Type: News story Tags: Internet Software	31
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... +26

Alexko

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

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