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• Microsoft reveals next-generation Xbox One console [175]
• Which game is the new champ of PC visuals? [126]
• Otellini: Intel passed on the original iPhone [86]
• Friday Shortbread [82]
• Samsung's latest 13.3'' notebook screen has a 3200x1800 resolution [71]

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Windows 8 offers improved graphics performance by Geoff Gasior — 12:34 PM on July 24, 2012 In a little more than three months, Windows 8 will be released to the public. Microsoft has done a great job of detailing... Type: News story Tags: Graphics Operating systems	125
'Rigid Gems' demos real-time hybrid ray-tracing by Scott Wasson — 9:45 AM on July 24, 2012 When it comes to graphics eye candy, we have a heckuva sweet tooth here at TR. One of our long-standing favorites is the demo from... Type: News story Tags: Graphics	36
AMD loses two high-profile executives by Cyril Kowaliski — 9:45 AM on July 24, 2012 Well, this can't be good. Yesterday evening, the Wall Street Journal broke the news that AMD's VP of Strategic Development, Bob Feldstein, has defected... Type: News story Tags: CPUs Graphics Game consoles	32
Tuesday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 12:00 AM on July 24, 2012 Eight is Enough Reuters: Apple heads into choppy water as new iPhone awaited ZDNet: Samsung sacrificed Qualcomm truce for Apple war AllThingsD on... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	43
Nvidia's 'A New Dawn' brings back the nymph by Scott Wasson — 10:50 AM on July 23, 2012 Roughly a decade ago, Nvidia introduced a new graphics chip called the NV30, and it wasn't exactly a rousing success. Despite a bundle of hype... Type: News story Tags: Graphics	66
Monday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 12:00 AM on July 23, 2012 Eight is Enough Linux 3.5 released WinUnleashed.info: Windows 8 RTM on the way X-bit labs: Thunderbolt interface to boost speed to 20Gb/s... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	21
Sunday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 12:00 AM on July 22, 2012 Eight is Enough AMD: Macroeconomic situation in the world slowing down microprocessor business X-bit labs: AMD does not see necessity in third... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	25
Saturday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 7:16 AM on July 21, 2012 7 Up Barack Obama: Taking the cyberattack threat seriously VR-Zone: PC gaming fastest growing platform VR-Zone: ECS first motherboard vendor to support... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	17
AMD revenues, profits down, but still in the black by Cyril Kowaliski — 6:00 AM on July 20, 2012 Well, AMD has some good news and some bad news in its freshly released quarterly results announcement. The good news: AMD didn't lose any... Type: News story Tags: CPUs Graphics	104
Friday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 12:00 AM on July 20, 2012 Eight is Enough DigiTimes: PC players need to consider selling smart services in the post-PC era, says Quanta chairman CNNMoney: Apple granted 'the mother... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	30
Release roundup: Fast DRAM, mini SSDs, and a big tower by Cyril Kowaliski — 5:32 PM on July 19, 2012 Every week, we gather press releases that slipped through the net of our daily coverage, and we post them in the release roundup. This week,... Type: News story Tags: Cases Storage Memory	39
Thursday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 12:00 AM on July 19, 2012 Eight is Enough Bloomberg: Apple must publish notice that Samsung didn't copy iPad in U.K. AppleInsider: Apple fixes CPU power use, USB... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	35
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
GeForce GTX 660 Ti rumored for August release by Geoff Gasior — 12:05 PM on July 17, 2012 If you want a decent graphics card based on Nvidia's latest Kepler GPU microarchitecture, you're going to have to spend at least $400 on a... Type: News story Tags: Graphics	51
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

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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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Xenolith

No Start menu, so the Xbox One is dead to me. +29

lilbuddhaman

Obligatory "what about Higher resolution desktop monitors" post. +28

danny e.

Based on the content of the presentation, it almost feels like gaming is taking... +24

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