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Sunday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 3:13 PM on March 4, 2012 The Pick 6 Ars Technica: Who can shut down cell phone service? FCC seeks public comment 3DCenter has Radeon HD 7800 specs... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	18
Saturday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 3:58 PM on March 3, 2012 7 Up DigiTimes reports Intel to release Ivy Bridge processors at the end of April Ars Technica: iPad using iOS 6, high-res... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	18
Deal of the week: Storage bonanza by Geoff Gasior — 1:27 PM on March 2, 2012 Despite the relatively high price of mechanical drives, the storage space is still teeming with sweet deals. Most of the discounts are hitting solid-state drives,... Type: News story Tags: Storage	41
Etc. by Scott Wasson — 10:36 AM on March 2, 2012 Wow. Long week here in Damage Labs, and I'm pretty shattered as a result. We were working late last night, recording the podcast,... Type: News story Tags: CPUs The Tech Report	44
High-DPI iPad 3 displays said to be in short supply by Cyril Kowaliski — 9:49 AM on March 2, 2012 Apple products are almost always hard to come by soon after their launch. People queue up at stores, place pre-orders, and sometimes wait days or... Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing Personal tech	48
Friday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 12:00 AM on March 2, 2012 Eight is Enough AnandTech reports Microsoft demos Windows 8 on 82" touchscreen and Microsoft shows Windows 8 CP on Tegra 3, Krait,... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	12
Thursday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 1:30 PM on March 1, 2012 Eight is Enough VR-Zone: AMD cuts prices by 2 to 15% across nine Phenom II CPUs and is Lucid's Virtu MVP the... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	11
Rumor: 7.85'' iPad to hit production later than expected by Cyril Kowaliski — 6:00 AM on March 1, 2012 As we count down the days to next week's iPad 3 launch event, the rumor mill is already grinding on about the next shiny Apple... Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing Personal tech	38
SeaMicro fabric could be the glue for future AMD chips by Scott Wasson — 5:10 PM on February 29, 2012 The reasons for AMD's decision to purchase SeaMicro are coming into focus quickly. AMD's John Fruehe has written a blog post explaining what... Type: News story Tags: CPUs	43
AMD announces plans to acquire SeaMicro by Scott Wasson — 4:02 PM on February 29, 2012 Apparently, AMD's new executive team had some specifics in mind when they were talking about making some unconventional moves in the server market a... Type: News story Tags: CPUs	27
Microsoft seeding Windows 8 developers with Tegra 3 PCs by Geoff Gasior — 11:48 AM on February 29, 2012 Nvidia is serious about getting its ARM-based processors inside Windows 8 systems. The company is working with Microsoft to supply developers and device makers... Type: News story Tags: CPUs Graphics Systems Operating systems	14
The Windows 8 Consumer Preview is now available by Cyril Kowaliski — 9:50 AM on February 29, 2012 Right on schedule, Microsoft made the Windows 8 Consumer Preview available earlier this morning. You can head to the official portal for more information.... Type: News story Tags: Operating systems Windows	127
Wednesday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 8:44 AM on February 29, 2012 7 Up Dell: We're no longer a PC company - PC Pro Google's Schmidt: If Google gets it right, there will be an... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	29
Toshiba becomes third player in WD's acquisition of Hitachi storage by Geoff Gasior — 7:00 AM on February 29, 2012 As part of its bid to acquire Hitachi's hard drive business, Western Digital has agreed to transfer an "asset package" to rival HDD maker... Type: News story Tags: Storage	18
Apple sets iPad 3 launch for March 7 by Cyril Kowaliski — 6:00 AM on February 29, 2012 Putting an end to months of tireless speculation, Apple announced the launch date for its next iPad yesterday. And, from what we can tell, the... Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing Personal tech	97
A-Data serves up extra capacity for SandForce SSDs by Geoff Gasior — 4:06 PM on February 28, 2012 ... Type: News story Tags: Storage	14
$200 USB stick offers ARM CPU, HDMI output by Geoff Gasior — 11:58 AM on February 28, 2012 People always seem to be surprised that an operating system can run entirely from a USB thumb drive. Imagine what they'll think of FXI Technologies'... Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing Personal tech	51
Tuesday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 11:29 AM on February 28, 2012 Three's Company X-bit labs: Roll-out of Intel "Ivy Bridge" micro- processors will take months to complete - source Bloomberg: Micron biggest winner as Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	17

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

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Good idea, and to expand on this point: A whole lot of people have already given... +26

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Pet peeve: "would have been". +19

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