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Monday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 4:51 PM on May 20, 2013 7 Up X-bit labs: Dell admits Windows 8 did not meet expectations, pins hopes on "Blue" updates Reuters: Yahoo! buying Tumblr for $1.1... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	7
Weekend Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 6:59 PM on May 18, 2013 The Pick 6 Reuters: New CEO vows Intel will be more responsive in mobile push Apple CEO: "We're going very deep" with... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	20
Friday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 5:35 PM on May 17, 2013 Eight is Enough TechCrunch: Amidst Tumblr acquisition rumors, Yahoo! to hold product event with Marissa Mayer on Monday X-bit labs: AMD needs more... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	81
Coffee Talk with Timmy Cook by Jason Fox — 9:32 AM on May 17, 2013 It's true. I recently won the Charitybuzz auction for "coffee with... Type: Blog post Tags: Mac	22
Etc. by Scott Wasson — 4:19 PM on May 16, 2013 Howdy, all. Just an update on several things. First, there is a lot going on around here in the next several weeks—busiest I have ever... Type: News story Tags: The Tech Report	24
Thursday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 4:00 PM on May 16, 2013 Eight is Enough PC shipments in Western Europe decline 20.5% in 1Q13, says Gartner Intel: Better tablet prospects, but ultrabooks key, says... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	23
Wednesday Night Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 10:43 PM on May 15, 2013 The Starting Five NPR: Google launches a streaming music service Fudzilla: Asus launches 15.6-incher with Retina-class display X-bit labs: Nvidia delays commercial... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	27
Tuesday Night Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 9:58 PM on May 14, 2013 Eight is Enough The Official Microsoft Blog: Staying centered The Inquirer: France could drop three strikes copyright law BGR: Google's new Android boss... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	34
Now is the time to make your CPU benchmarking suggestions by Scott Wasson — 9:38 AM on May 14, 2013 As you may have heard, there's a major CPU launch coming up soon. I've been meeting with folks, gathering new parts, and prepping my... Type: News story Tags: CPUs The Tech Report	262
Adobe lets you pay now and later and later again by Jason Fox — 9:26 AM on May 13, 2013 The time was January 1995. The smooth, Philly soul and pleated pants of... Type: Blog post Tags: Mac	71
Friday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 1:06 PM on May 10, 2013 Eight is Enough Intel: Keeping up with Moore's Law is becoming a challenge - PCWorld X-bit labs: New benchmark results of Core... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	64
Stable Firefox for Modern UI due in the fall by Cyril Kowaliski — 6:00 AM on May 10, 2013 About three months ago, Firefox's Modern UI interface made its first appearance in the nightly build channel. We haven't heard much Modern UI talk... Type: News story Tags: Internet Software	17
Passive cooling silences PowerColor's SCS3 Radeon HD 7850 by Geoff Gasior — 9:42 AM on May 9, 2013 PowerColor has developed a new spin on AMD's Radeon HD 7850 graphics card. The simply named SCS3 HD7850 has stock clock speeds and 1GB... Type: News story Tags: Graphics Cooling	34
Wednesday Night Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 11:48 PM on May 8, 2013 The Fierce Five Toshiba: Microsoft confused tablet buyers with Windows 8 Ocaholic: Ivy Bridge at 7.2GHz X-bit labs: Alleged images of GeForce... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	13
WD explains hybrid tech behind Black SSHDs by Geoff Gasior — 2:22 PM on May 8, 2013 Ever since WD announced its first SSHDs last month, we've wondered about... Type: News story Tags: Storage Software	32
Tuesday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 4:13 PM on May 7, 2013 7 Up Reuters: EA total revenue, profit drop in fourth quarter and Nokia CEO says it remains focused on Windows Phone software C\|Net:... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	31
Seagate enters consumer SSD market, adds new enterprise drives by Geoff Gasior — 10:54 AM on May 7, 2013 Traditional hard drive makers have been slow to get into the SSD business,... Type: News story Tags: Storage Servers Workstations	46
Monday Night Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 9:49 PM on May 6, 2013 The Fierce Five It's official: Microsoft's Windows Blue is coming later this year - Wired VR-Zone: Stock surge shows AMD can be... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	18

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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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CampinCarl

I'm sorry but if there's enough market demand for 13.3" 3200x1800 screens, there... +29

chuckula

Good idea, and to expand on this point: A whole lot of people have already given... +27

lilbuddhaman

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

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