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Intel's USB 3.0 controller is faster than AMD's, too by Geoff Gasior — 4:57 PM on April 10, 2012 Producing our Z77 motherboard round-up took more consecutive 12+ hour days than I'd care to admit. There simply wasn't enough time to squeeze... Type: News story Tags: Motherboards Chipsets	154
Zotac reveals Mini-ITX Ivy Bridge boards by Geoff Gasior — 11:52 AM on April 10, 2012 You didn't think Zotac was going to let Intel's 7-series platform launch pass without announcing a few small-form-factor motherboards, did you? The Mini-ITX... Type: News story Tags: Motherboards	66
Tuesday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 12:00 AM on April 10, 2012 Eight is Enough Bloomberg: Facebook agrees to buy Instagram photo app for $1 billion Ars Technica: Two years left of Windows XP... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	57
Monday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 12:00 AM on April 9, 2012 Eight is Enough Bloomberg reports ex-Intel worker pleads guilty to stealing design documents Intel: "Knights Corner" MIC supercomputer chip in great shape... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	24
Easter Sunday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 12:00 AM on April 8, 2012 Eight is Enough AT&T's Wi-Fi experiment: Watch ads, get access - GigaOM The Verge: First Google tablet now expected in July due... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	57
Saturday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 9:59 PM on April 7, 2012 The Starting Five THQ: Take-Two CEO's perception is 'outdated' - Joystiq AppleInsider: Apple's Ivy Bridge-powered iMacs rumored to debut in June VR-Zone: Intel... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	9
Deal of the week: Newegg cracks for Easter by Scott Wasson — 4:52 PM on April 6, 2012 We'll keep it simple this week: go here to visit Newegg's weekend DIY PC sale page, which offers promo codes for discounts of 10-15%... Type: News story Tags: CPUs Graphics Motherboards Power Storage Software	10
Good Friday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 10:10 AM on April 6, 2012 Eight is Enough VR-Zone: MSI shows off its Super RAID in the GT70 gaming notebook AnandTech's 990FX motherboards roundup with Thuban and Bulldozer... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	79
Release roundup: New Corsair Vengeance gear and more by Cyril Kowaliski — 5:47 PM on April 5, 2012 We have a little bit of everything this week, with announcements from Corsair, Fractal Design, and Razer about everything from headphones to fans: ... Type: News story Tags: Multimedia Cases Cooling	15
Thursday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 9:21 AM on April 5, 2012 The Pick 6 Bloomberg: Rambus appeals California antitrust trial loss to Hynix, Micron Ars Technica: Flashback trojan reportedly controls half a million... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	56
Wednesday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 12:11 PM on April 4, 2012 The Starting Five VR-Zone: Intel's move to DDR4 to start with high-end server CPUs in early 2014? TweakTown's Indilinx Everest 2 SSD controller platform... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	39
Tuesday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 12:00 AM on April 3, 2012 7 Up IDC forecasts hard disk drive industry will return to growth after a difficult 2011 Fudzilla: Intel Z77 chipset LGA 1155... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	34
Monday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 12:00 AM on April 2, 2012 The Pick 6 C\|Net reports MPAA wants more criminal cases brought against 'rogue' sites PCWorld: Qualcomm's quad-core chips to counter Intel's ultrabooks techPowerUp!:... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	20
April Fool's Day Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 12:00 AM on April 1, 2012 The Starting Five Fudzilla reports AMD corp VP and GM of server products leaves Electronista: IDC sees Android past Windows by 2016,... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	56
Saturday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 12:18 AM on March 31, 2012 The Pick 6 VR-Zone: Intel's Haswell to push the desktop PC CPU packaging frontiers and Intel quietly unveils its new 7-series motherboards X-bit... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	71
Friday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 12:00 AM on March 30, 2012 Eight is Enough DailyTech: All Windows 8 PCs will have 5-fingered touch VR-Zone: Asus unveils AMD-powered U82U 14" ultra-thin laptop Fudzilla: Intel Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	27
Release roundup: Cases, cases, and more cases—and a cooler update by Cyril Kowaliski — 5:05 PM on March 29, 2012 This week's release roundup is all about cases and cooling. We have announcements from BitFenix, Lian Li, NZXT, Raidmax, and Scythe. Type: News story Tags: Cases Cooling	26
Thursday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 12:00 AM on March 29, 2012 Eight is Enough X-bit labs: International DRAM alliance - key for securing healthy DRAM market, say analysts Ars Technica reports first batch of... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	33

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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=... +15

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