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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
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
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
The sweet sound of Koss' PortaPro headphones by Geoff Gasior — 11:47 PM on July 15, 2010 1984 seems so very long ago. That was the year Apple introduced its very first Macintosh computer with an iconic commercial featuring an unnamed... Type: Blog post Tags: Multimedia	38
Building the imperfect beast, part II: mobo risin' by Jason Fox — 12:21 PM on February 16, 2010 Hey hey, kids. In case you've forgotten or are too lazy to use a... Type: Blog post Tags: Mac	42
On the potential of HTML5 by Cyril Kowaliski — 5:01 PM on February 5, 2010 By now, many of you must have looked at, or at least heard of, the experimental, HTML5 version of YouTube. And if you read... Type: Blog post Tags: Internet Software	31
A few weeks with LaCie's iamaKey thumb drive by Geoff Gasior — 11:10 AM on July 7, 2009 USB thumb drives are everywhere. Heck, they've been everywhere for years. Never before have I see a new class of product become... Type: Blog post Tags: Software	34
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
HP's LP2475w monitor: IPS at a bargain price by Cyril Kowaliski — 11:08 AM on December 4, 2008 Those who follow my blog may have some idea of the trouble I've encountered trying to replace my aging (and dimming) 20.1" Viewsonic VX2025wm with... Type: Blog post Tags: Displays	102
Who needs a proper photo studio? by Cyril Kowaliski — 3:15 PM on November 7, 2008 After finally receiving one of Apple's new aluminum MacBooks last week, I've been doing some testing and working on my review of the machine.... Type: Blog post Tags: Mac The Tech Report	19
Microsoft's free photo stitching tool is very slick indeed by Geoff Gasior — 2:15 PM on September 24, 2008 A few weeks ago on a backpacking trip, I took a stack of pictures to stich together for a dramatic panoramic shot. Or rather,... Type: Blog post Tags: Software	19
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

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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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