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Saturday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 4:00 PM on June 9, 2012 7 Up Bloomberg: Canadian dollar in weekly gain versus U.S. peer as stocks rise Mac Rumors: Apple to introduce third MacBook line... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	21
Acoustic foam quiets Thermaltake Soprano enclosure by Geoff Gasior — 8:59 AM on June 9, 2012 Computex — Thermaltake had a little bit of everything on display at the Computex trade show in Taipei this week. We saw countless headsets and... Type: News story Tags: Cases	18
BitFenix shows off prodigious Mini-ITX enclosure by Geoff Gasior — 8:55 AM on June 9, 2012 Computex — TR readers seemed pretty enthusiastic when BitFenix announced its Prodigy enclosure a couple of weeks ago, so we stopped by the company's... Type: News story Tags: Cases Cooling	48
Silverstone's Sugo SG09 packs big punch in small chassis by Geoff Gasior — 11:59 PM on June 8, 2012 Computex — Just about every chassis maker at the Computex trade show in Taipei was displaying at least one Mini-ITX enclosure this year. Given the... Type: News story Tags: Cases	14
Noctua explains active noise cancellation tech by Geoff Gasior — 11:16 PM on June 8, 2012 Computex — We probably should have scheduled our Computex meeting with Noctua earlier in the week, before my brain had been turned to mush after... Type: News story Tags: Cooling	26
Enermax dips into liquid cooling by Geoff Gasior — 10:26 PM on June 8, 2012 Computex — Perhaps because Intel's Sandy Bridge-E CPUs ship without heatsinks (and with toasty 130W TDPs), we've seen an awful lot of water coolers at... Type: News story Tags: CPUs Cooling	29
Friday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 12:15 PM on June 8, 2012 Eight is Enough AppleInsider: Apple to unveil entirely new MacBook series at WWDC, insiders say Mac Rumors: Apple to introduce third MacBook line... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	4
Fractal Design's Node enclosures ripe for the living room by Geoff Gasior — 9:13 AM on June 8, 2012 Computex — We first met with Fractal Design at last year's Computex trade show, so it was only fitting that we visited the company again... Type: News story Tags: Cases	34
EVGA's hot-clocked GTX 680 features massive blower by Geoff Gasior — 9:10 AM on June 8, 2012 Computex — Graphics cards based on Nvidia's GeForce GTX 680 are all over Computex. Every graphics card maker we've visited has had at least... Type: News story Tags: Graphics Cooling	8
Antec prepping new versions of P280 chassis by Geoff Gasior — 11:38 AM on June 7, 2012 Computex — You're probably familiar with Antec's P280 chassis. We gave the case a TR Recommended award when we reviewed it earlier this... Type: News story Tags: Cases	26
Thursday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 12:00 AM on June 7, 2012 Eight is Enough AppleInsider: New part numbers reveal Apple to refresh most of Mac lineup at WWDC SemiAccurate: AMD delays desktop Trinity... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	56
Wednesday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 12:00 AM on June 6, 2012 Eight is Enough Pre to postmortem: The inside story of the death of Palm and webOS - The Verge Google Official Blog:... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	14
Tuesday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 12:47 AM on June 5, 2012 Three's Company The Register: June 6 is World IPv6 launch day Fudzilla: AMD lists Brazos 2.0 parts online VR-Zone: Intel Haswell-EP brings... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	53
Monday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 12:03 AM on June 4, 2012 Eight is Enough The Washington Post: Warnings about 'Flame' virus come amid suspicions of U.S. role in launching secret cyberweapons Intel reaches breakthrough... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	34
Sunday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 1:29 AM on June 3, 2012 7 Up The NY Times: Obama order set up wave of cyberattacks against Iran Fudzilla: OCZ to take Computex show by... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	43
Saturday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 8:24 AM on June 2, 2012 The Pick 6 Engadget: Google's Sundar Pichai confirms that offline Google Drive 'coming in five weeks,' hints at ad-supported Chromebook DigiTimes: Asus, HTC Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	13
Release roundup: Card readers and efficient PSUs by Cyril Kowaliski — 4:56 PM on June 1, 2012 We've only got a couple of items for this week's release roundup. Computex is drawing nigh, and most hardware makers seem to be holding off... Type: News story Tags: Power Storage	7
Friday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 12:00 AM on June 1, 2012 Eight is Enough Ars Technica: Google wins crucial API ruling, Oracle's case decimated AppleInsider: Reliable source says no chance Apple will ax... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	31

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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... +24

Alexko

"Quark, drunk on money, power, and an estimated 90% market share, started behavi... +24

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