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Intel unveils the Xeon E5-2600 series by Scott Wasson — 11:00 AM on March 6, 2012 Although the Sandy Bridge CPU microarchitecture has been available in laptops and desktops for over a year,... Type: News story Tags: CPUs Servers Workstations	46
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
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
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
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
TR's March 2012 system guide by Cyril Kowaliski, Geoff Gasior, and Scott Wasson — 4:16 PM on February 22, 2012 Not much new hardware has come out since we published our last guide in December, but this edition is still choc-full of small, incremental... Type: Feature article Tags: Systems Workstations	217
Wednesday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 1:13 AM on February 22, 2012 7 Up What's keeping Mountain Lion off of some 64-bit Macs? Ars investigates VR-Zone: Intel's upcoming 7-series Media motherboards detailed VR-Zone: Qualcomm's Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	17
Tuesday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 5:29 AM on February 21, 2012 Eight is Enough Microsoft: Google bypassed privacy settings in IE, too Bloomberg reports single-atom transistor may beat Moore's Law Laptop Reviews: Lenovo IdeaPad... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	18
Presidents Day Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 11:45 AM on February 20, 2012 Eight is Enough Expreview: Ivy Bridge Core i5-3570K engineering sample test VR-Zone's exclusive: Intel's 7-series Executive motherboard specs and Intel's next Medfield chip... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	58

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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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CampinCarl

I'm sorry but if there's enough market demand for 13.3" 3200x1800 screens, there... +27

chuckula

Good idea, and to expand on this point: A whole lot of people have already given... +27

lilbuddhaman

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

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