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Thursday Night Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 8:15 PM on April 25, 2013 Eight is Enough X-bit labs: Intel Core i7-4960X "Ivy Bridge-E" is up to 11% faster than current-generation Extreme offering ZDNet: Want the most reliable... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	20
Bloomberg: Amazon to release set-top box this year by Geoff Gasior — 6:00 AM on April 25, 2013 Remember when Amazon was just an online bookstore? Today, the e-tail giant... Type: News story Tags: Multimedia Personal tech	25
Wednesday Night Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 8:16 PM on April 24, 2013 Eight is Enough Ars Technica on the rise and fall of AMD: A company on the ropes The Inquirer: AMD brought 64-bit... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	19
AMD releases Catalyst 13.5 beta, 13.4 WHQL graphics drivers by Geoff Gasior — 4:38 PM on April 24, 2013 AMD has released two new sets of graphics drivers, both of which support the latest Radeon HD 7790 and Radeon HD 7990 graphics cards. The... Type: News story Tags: Graphics Software	34
Etc. by Scott Wasson — 10:59 AM on April 24, 2013 Hey, guys. This post is almost too painful to write, but yes, I am indeed working on a Radeon HD 7990 review. And... Type: News story Tags: Graphics The Tech Report	80
Tuesday Night Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 11:59 PM on April 23, 2013 The Fierce Five Hardware Canucks, HotHardware, KitGuru, Legit Reviews, PCPer, TechSpot, techPowerUp!, and TweakTown review AMD... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	11
Report: Intel wants batteries in all-in-one PCs by Geoff Gasior — 12:35 PM on April 22, 2013 With the demand for traditional towers dwindling, a lot of the action in the desktop PC industry seems to be focused on all-in-one systems similar... Type: News story Tags: Systems Mobile computing	30
WD XE hard drive has 10k-RPM spindle speed, 6Gbps SAS interface by Geoff Gasior — 11:21 AM on April 22, 2013 Western Digital has a new hard drive for the server crowd. The... Type: News story Tags: Storage Servers	43
Monday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 12:00 AM on April 22, 2013 The Pick 6 The Verge: Windows 8.1 'Kiosk Mode' discovered in newly leaked build WinBeta's first look: Windows 8.1 Pro preview build... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	10
Weekend Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 1:02 PM on April 20, 2013 The Pick 6 Bloomberg: AMD rehires graphic-chip executive Raja Koduri back from Apple Mac Rumors: Lower-cost iPhone's plastic rear shell reportedly surfaces X-bit... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	51
Release roundup: Richland mobos, Mini-ITX cases, and a jumbo cooler by Cyril Kowaliski — 4:19 PM on April 19, 2013 This week in our look at miscellaneous product releases and announcements, we bring tidings from Biostar, Lian Li, and Scythe: Biostar... Type: News story Tags: Motherboards Cases Cooling	52
Microsoft beats earnings forecasts despite flat Windows growth by Cyril Kowaliski — 1:09 PM on April 19, 2013 How did Microsoft weather last quarter's slump in PC shipments? Not too badly, by the looks of it. The software giant has posted... Type: News story Tags: Software Windows	38
Gigabyte teases next-gen Haswell board by Geoff Gasior — 9:11 AM on April 19, 2013 Next-generation Haswell motherboards are approaching, and Gigabyte has teased a few details about what it has in store for the new platform. The firm has... Type: News story Tags: Motherboards Multimedia	32
Friday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 12:00 AM on April 19, 2013 7 Up Google Inc. announces first quarter 2013 results The Inquirer: Flawed Malwarebytes security update wipes out thousands of computers The Official Microsoft Blog:... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	20
The PC is booming—just not the PC we know by Cyril Kowaliski — 11:05 PM on April 18, 2013 So, you heard the news: PC sales are tanking. Apparently, nobody wants to buy Dells or HPs anymore; nobody cares about clunky laptops and bulky... Type: Blog post Tags: Systems Mobile computing Personal tech	81
Xonar U7 pipes HD audio over USB by Geoff Gasior — 9:14 AM on April 18, 2013 Asus' lineup of Xonar audio products has been confined predominantly to PCI and PCI Express sound cards. The firm is slowly expanding its selection of... Type: News story Tags: Multimedia	27
Thursday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 12:00 AM on April 18, 2013 7 Up Mashable: Foxconn will now pay Microsoft for every Android device it makes Reuters: Yahoo! posts flat first-quarter revenue on declining... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	16
Gigabyte's mobo shipments nipping at Asus' heels by Geoff Gasior — 6:00 AM on April 17, 2013 For as long as I can remember, Asus has been the big daddy... Type: News story Tags: Motherboards	26

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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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