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Gadgets on the piste by Jordan Drake — 10:23 PM on March 17, 2013 Warning: The following is by no means an in-depth review or related to PC hardware. I used a recent ski trip as an opportunity to... Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous	59
Have Internet, will travel by Geoff Gasior — 12:00 AM on May 25, 2012 To borrow the first line from The Streets' magnificent A Grand Don't Come for Free, it was supposed to be so easy. After a brutally... Type: Blog post Tags: Internet Personal tech	34
I bought a Kindle Touch, and it's pretty great by Cyril Kowaliski — 10:30 AM on March 16, 2012 Almost a year ago today, I waved goodbye to the world of print books and got myself an Amazon Kindle 3. You might recall I... Type: Blog post Tags: Personal tech	43
Six screens, one desk by Geoff Gasior — 6:32 PM on March 8, 2012 When I sit down at my desk in the Benchmarking Sweatshop, it feels like maybe I could tap into the Matrix. I've slowly added... Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous Displays	47
Clash of the Sumo Titan bean bag chair by David Morgan — 10:55 PM on May 18, 2011 Here at TR, we generally can't be bothered with things that don't raise the electricity bill or contain copious amounts of caffeine. However, over... Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous	31
Rediscovering reading with the Kindle by Cyril Kowaliski — 11:37 AM on March 18, 2011 Today, I finished my first book in a long, long time... probably years: On Writing by Stephen King. While King was one of my favorite... Type: Blog post Tags: Personal tech	100
Snooping Timbuk2's camera messenger bag by Geoff Gasior — 11:36 PM on March 10, 2011 For more than a decade, I lugged my notebook in a simple shoulder bag. I suppose you'd call it a messenger-style bag today, but... Type: Blog post Tags: Mobile computing Personal tech	15
Gloss begone by Geoff Gasior — 7:57 PM on February 10, 2011 There are few things that I despise more than the predominance of polished plastics in today's notebooks. Glossy finishes are the single worst... Type: Blog post Tags: Mobile computing Personal tech	34
Don't go to Vegas—tales of a journalist's first CES by Cyril Kowaliski — 7:58 PM on January 9, 2011 It's 10:35 PM on the second-to-last day of CES as I sit on the hotel bed nursing my blistered feet, throat aching from the desert... Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous	109
My iPhone 4 is awesome by Cyril Kowaliski — 7:58 PM on August 12, 2010 Well, I finally did it. After misguidedly buying what turned out to be a sub-par iPhone clone in 2008, then waiting almost five months... Type: Blog post Tags: Mac Personal tech	250
Wading into the smartphone world with a Palm Pre by Geoff Gasior — 11:37 PM on July 29, 2010 I severed my last land line about a decade ago, so I probably count as a reasonably early cell-phone adopter. Was I driven by a... Type: Blog post Tags: Personal tech	48
Clip surgery! by Mike Uchima — 4:28 PM on May 4, 2009 No, I'm not talking about getting your dog or cat fixed. I'm talking about the Sansa Clip MP3 player, and my recent foray into... Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous Personal tech	26
Fun with raytracing by Mike Uchima — 11:10 PM on April 20, 2009 Traditional GPUs render a scene by taking the scene geometry (expressed as 3D meshes of triangles) and "pasting" 2D bitmap images (textures) onto those meshes.... Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous	61
Portable audio—then and now by Mike Uchima — 3:58 PM on April 15, 2009 I recently acquired a Sansa Clip 4GB MP3 player (which, I might add, I'm quite happy with). After using it for a few weeks, I... Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous Personal tech	67
A trip down memory lane by Geoff Gasior — 9:24 AM on March 5, 2009 There are few things that I dread more than moving. Transporting a household from one location to another is miserable enough, but throw the... Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous	82
CES 2009: a pictorial by Matt Butrovich — 4:51 PM on January 15, 2009 Every year I get sick after CES. It's inevitable. Thankfully, I'm already starting to recover from whatever nasty bug I brought home this year, which... Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous	10
Swallowed by the SumoSac bean bag chair by Geoff Gasior — 10:51 AM on July 2, 2008 I spend most of my time reviewing chipsets, motherboards, hard drives, power supply units, and sound cards—the geeky bits inside a modern PC. ... Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous	50
Totally awesome world exclusive unboxing! by Geoff Gasior — 12:07 AM on June 5, 2008 Folks apparently like to see stuff unboxed, unwrapped, or otherwise removed from its packaging. Who knew? So in a desperate attempt to remain relevant,... Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous	22

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

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