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Nvidia Kepler powers Oak Ridge's supercomputing Titan by Scott Wasson — 11:34 AM on October 29, 2012 We don't know for sure whether it will make its way into a graphics card or not, but the biggest variant of Nvidia's Kepler GPU... Type: News story Tags: Graphics Servers	52
Monday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 1:48 AM on October 29, 2012 The Starting Five Ars Technica goes under the hood of Windows 8 and music and video in Windows 8 The making of the... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	19
Sunday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 4:47 PM on October 28, 2012 The Pick 6 Neowin: Google Now used to alert Android users of Hurricane Sandy and tsunami threats LWN.net: An update on the ext4... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	40
Saturday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 10:22 PM on October 27, 2012 7 Up AllThingsD: Steven Sinofsky on how Windows 8 PCs deliver better value than Apple Benchmark Reviews on OCZ Technology: From SSDs to... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	37
Friday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 3:05 PM on October 26, 2012 Eight is Enough Ballmer: Windows 8 PCs are "the best PCs ever." The experience is "truly magical" Business Wire: Windows 8 has... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	54
Thursday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 11:48 PM on October 25, 2012 Eight is Enough PCWorld: Microsoft launches Windows 8 with great fanfare, few surprises VR-Zone: Windows 8 is tricky, according to sample of... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	53
Nvidia bolsters mobile GPU lineup with MX models by Geoff Gasior — 10:59 AM on October 25, 2012 Remember the GeForce4 MX? The low-end GPU was pretty forgettable, to be honest, but Nvidia is bringing back the MX moniker for handful of... Type: News story Tags: Graphics Systems Mobile computing	40
Wednesday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 1:06 PM on October 24, 2012 The Fantastic Four The NY Times: Facebook posts largest single-day gain after third-quarter earnings call X-bit labs: OCZ adds high availability and... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	31
GeForce 310.33 beta drivers promise 'up to 15%' performance boost by Scott Wasson — 2:18 PM on October 23, 2012 Just one day after AMD unleashed its snazzy new Catalyst 12.11 beta "Never Settle" graphics drivers with promises of 15% performance gains on average,... Type: News story Tags: Graphics	42
Tuesday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 12:00 AM on October 23, 2012 The Fantastic Four AnandTech, Benchmark Reviews, CowcotLand, Hardware Heaven, HCW, HotHardware, HTL, HWC, KitGuru, Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	46
Monday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 4:14 PM on October 22, 2012 Eight is Enough AllThingsD: Yahoo! reports earnings CNBC: Stocks recover to end higher; Apple jumps 4% Analysis: Most companies won't be early... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	21
UPDATE: New Catalyst betas boost 7000-series performance by Cyril Kowaliski — 1:09 PM on October 22, 2012 Later this week, AMD is going to release a fresh batch of beta Catalyst drivers. These new drivers will feature a gaggle of optimizations for... Type: News story Tags: Graphics	83
TSMC's 16-nm FinFET process coming next year by Geoff Gasior — 11:17 AM on October 22, 2012 TSMC is partnered with some of the biggest names in the computing business, including AMD, Apple, Nvidia, and Qualcomm. Those firms come up with... Type: News story Tags: CPUs Graphics Mobile computing	22
AMD doubles down on GPU game bundles by Cyril Kowaliski — 9:46 AM on October 22, 2012 Over the past few weeks, we've heard AMD make quite a lot of noise about its Never Settle game bundle, whereby certain Radeons are available... Type: News story Tags: Graphics Gaming	60
Sunday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 3:27 PM on October 21, 2012 Eight is Enough 9to5Mac: Apple's smaller iPad to likely start at a minimum of $329 in the U.S. Revealed at TNW: Everything... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	45
Saturday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 10:39 PM on October 20, 2012 Eight is Enough The NY Times: As Microsoft shifts its privacy rules, an uproar is absent TG Daily: Android "Key Lime Pie"... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	53
Friday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 11:53 PM on October 19, 2012 7 Up Stardock: Bring back the Windows "Start" menu with Start8 AMD considers its chances: Outlines three growth opportunities MediaPost: Microsoft 'Surface' has... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	45
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

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CampinCarl

I'm sorry but if there's enough market demand for 13.3" 3200x1800 screens, there's MORE than enough demand for 24" 2560x1600 screens.

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lilbuddhaman

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

Mourmain

Pet peeve: "would have been". +19

Star Brood

Meanwhile on the desktop scene: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=... +18

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