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Intel posts modest revenue growth by Cyril Kowaliski — 6:00 AM on July 18, 2012 If Gartner's latest estimates are any indication, the PC market isn't faring... Type: News story Tags: CPUs	32
Wednesday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 12:10 AM on July 18, 2012 Eight is Enough TechCrunch: Intel earnings up 5%, PC market sales up 3% despite Windows 8 expectations X-bit labs: Intel takes over... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	79
Report: AMD to reveal Jaguar details in August by Geoff Gasior — 11:04 AM on July 17, 2012 Tablets are the hot new thing. Research firm IDC says over 100 million slates will sell this year, and that number is expected... Type: News story Tags: CPUs Mobile computing	29
Tuesday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 3:01 AM on July 17, 2012 The Starting Five AllThingsD: Marissa Mayer named Yahoo! CEO, will start tomorrow ocaholic: Roger "splmann" Tanner with new Z77 Corsair memory overclocking world... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	31
Monday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 12:00 AM on July 16, 2012 7 Up The Kansas City Star: Sprint's LTE to lift off Sunday Know Your Mobile: iPhone 5 official release date revealed as Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	19
Sunday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 12:00 AM on July 15, 2012 Eight is Enough Microsoft: Apple has it wrong, it's a PC+ era Alive and booting: 8 reasons the PC still matters -... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	51
Bastille Day Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 2:31 AM on July 14, 2012 Eight is Enough Calgary Herald: Explosion at Shaw Communications headquarters knocks out service to thousands AppleInsider: Apple acknowledges 'mistake,' places eligible products back... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	44
Deal of the week: Cheap storage for Steam's Summer Sale by Geoff Gasior — 1:24 PM on July 13, 2012 Valve's Steam Summer Sale is in full swing, giving us a good starting point for this week's deals post. There are a few... Type: News story Tags: CPUs Storage Gaming	28
Once valued at $200 million, Digg sells for peanuts by Cyril Kowaliski — 10:10 AM on July 13, 2012 Remember Digg? There was a time when half the web was peppered with Digg widgets, the idea being that a few up-votes might bring a... Type: News story Tags: Internet	31
Friday the 13th Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 1:07 AM on July 13, 2012 The Pick 6 Fudzilla: Kabini 28nm essential APU coming in 2013 and Nvidia mid-range to come in August X-bit labs: AMD Radeon HD... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	27
Thursday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 12:00 AM on July 12, 2012 7 Up C\|Net: Obama signs order outlining emergency Internet control Reuters: OCZ Technology shares fall on weak results OCZ: Higher-capacity SSDs start... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	34
Wednesday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 1:19 AM on July 11, 2012 Eight is Enough Bloomberg: AMD falls after reporting unexpected quarterly sales drop DigiTimes: Motherboard makers see June revenue down on month and supply... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	20
Penny Arcade sells out... on Kickstarter by Geoff Gasior — 10:59 AM on July 10, 2012 Kickstarter has been used to fund everything from DIY 3D printers to a new Carmageddon game. Now, the guys at webcomic Penny Arcade are... Type: News story Tags: Internet	38
AMD: Second-quarter revenue will fall short of estimates by Cyril Kowaliski — 6:00 AM on July 10, 2012 Here's the latest in AMD's ever-growing string of misfortunes. After posting a $590 million loss last quarter, AMD proudly announced that its revenue would... Type: News story Tags: CPUs Graphics	83
Tuesday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 12:00 AM on July 10, 2012 The Starting Five WSJ: AMD lowers 2nd quarter revenue outlook on China, Europe weakness C\|Net: Microsoft buys Perpective Pixel, maker of large... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	18
Monday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 12:00 AM on July 9, 2012 Eight is Enough VR-Zone: TSMC remains confident in their 28nm manufacturing Ars Technica's op-ed: MPAA / RIAA lose big as U.S. backs... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	14
Sunday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 12:00 AM on July 8, 2012 The Starting Five TorrentFreak: Cyberlocker offered to help prosecute users to settle $34.8m copyright suit and one-man army on a mission to... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	28
Saturday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 12:00 AM on July 7, 2012 Eight is Enough Ars Technica: hp says Itanium, HP-UX not dead yet Execution, innovation, location: 3 reasons to choose GlobalFoundries at 28nm CPU... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	44

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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

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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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