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Wednesday Night Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 11:48 PM on May 1, 2013 7 Up X-bit labs: Disruption in South Korean production could have catastrophic impact on global electronics business VG24/7: Nvidia appoints new Tegra boss Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	24
Tuesday Night Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 11:54 PM on April 30, 2013 7 Up Yahoo! News: Apple sells $17 billion in bonds in record deal Björn3D, Hardware Canucks, HotHardware & PCPer... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	38
Monday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 12:00 AM on April 29, 2013 The Pick 6 Neowin: Microsoft 'reimagining' video reveals secrets of rebranding, hints of what's to come LinuxInsider: Have Linux distros gotten too tubby? GSM... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	42
Weekend Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 1:53 PM on April 27, 2013 The Fierce Five VR-Zone: Is your power supply ready for Haswell? Computerworld: Windows Blue won't solve all Microsoft's problems, analysts say Android Police: Google... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	40
Deal of the week: Graphics cards, IPS displays, and more by Cyril Kowaliski — 5:17 PM on April 26, 2013 This week's deal post is all about eye candy—or, rather, graphics cards and monitors. Some mid-range Radeons have gotten quite a bit cheaper since our Type: News story Tags: Graphics Displays	43
Friday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 3:36 PM on April 26, 2013 Eight is Enough AMD announces 2013 Developer Summit: "APU13" X-bit labs: AMD & partners to discuss the future of heterogeneous computing this November... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	22
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
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
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
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
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
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
Wednesday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 12:00 AM on April 17, 2013 7 Up Windows: It's over - ZDNet editorial PC Advisor: Microsoft eyes ditching browser for secure web apps ZDNet: First real-world usage figures... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	38
Tuesday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 12:00 AM on April 16, 2013 7 Up WinBeta: Microsoft to allow users to jump straight to desktop in Windows 8.1? Fudzilla: Desktop GeForce 7 comes by Computex CPU World... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	17
Monday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 11:58 AM on April 15, 2013 The Fantastic Four Bloomberg: Dish bids $25.5 billion for Sprint to challenge Softbank Nvidia: Kepler and Maxwell graphics architectures will change the game... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	14
Weekend Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 12:18 AM on April 14, 2013 Eight is Enough AMD - No DirectX 12 Fudzilla: Haswell Crystal Well has L4 cache for iGPU X-bit labs: Hard disk drives market... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	32
Deal of the week: Cheap graphics and IPS displays by Cyril Kowaliski — 5:16 PM on April 12, 2013 This week's deal post is all about eye candy. For starters, EVGA's "superclocked" version of the GeForce GTX 660 2GB is still available for only Type: News story Tags: Graphics Displays Gaming	29

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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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