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Stardock offers substitute Start menu for Windows 8 by Cyril Kowaliski — 4:56 PM on March 6, 2012 That didn't take long. Barely a week after the Windows 8 Consumer Preview's release, someone has whipped up a substitute for the decommissioned Start... Type: News story Tags: Software Windows	64
Tuesday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 12:00 AM on March 6, 2012 The Pick 6 Expreview: Nvidia Kepler GK104 cards to come out on March 23rd and retail Ivy Bridge processor may feature E1... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	12
Monday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 2:55 AM on March 5, 2012 Radeon HD 7870 and 7870 reviews Guru3D, Hardware Canucks, Hardware Heaven, Hexus.net, HotHardware, KitGuru, Neoseeker, PC... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	26
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
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
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
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
Monday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 12:00 AM on February 27, 2012 The Starting Five Bruce Schneier: Government, big data pose bigger 'Net threat than criminals - Ars Technica AnandTech reports Orange to sell co-branded... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	19
Sunday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 6:08 PM on February 26, 2012 The Starting Five Bloomberg: Apple to elect board by majority after investor pressure Mac Rumors: Apple seriously considered switching to AMD in 2011... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	7
Saturday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 6:33 PM on February 25, 2012 Eight is Enough VR-Zone: Intel's Extreme series Z77 motherboard specs revealed AnandTech's MSI Big Bang-Xpower II X79 review - a world of... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	34
Zune, Windows Live brands said to be on the chopping block by Cyril Kowaliski — 4:42 PM on February 24, 2012 Microsoft is cleaning house, it sounds like. We found out this morning that the company might cut down on the number of OS editions with... Type: News story Tags: Software Windows	53
Friday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 12:29 PM on February 24, 2012 Eight is Enough DigiTimes: Global HDD capactiy expected to be restored to 80% in 1Q12 Jon Peddie Research: Q4 graphics shipments increased... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	41
Windows 8 editions listed in HP driver notes by Cyril Kowaliski — 9:28 AM on February 24, 2012 Now, this could simply be a placeholder, not a genuine list of the upcoming Windows 8 editions. Still, it's an interesting slip-up by HP. As... Type: News story Tags: Operating systems Windows	43
Release roundup: High-end gear and a neat SATA dock by Cyril Kowaliski — 6:04 PM on February 23, 2012 This week in the roundup, we bring tidings of fresh product launches from ASRock, PowerColor, Thermaltake, and Spire: ASRock and Fatal1ty... Type: News story Tags: Graphics Motherboards Cooling Storage	40
Thursday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 12:00 AM on February 23, 2012 Eight is Enough Ars Technica: Intel ventures further into the foundry business with 22nm customers Adobe and Google partnering for Flash Player... 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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