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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	7
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	73
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
Intel's Thin Mini-ITX platform: nine months later by Cyril Kowaliski — 9:25 AM on May 13, 2013 Nine months after our first brush with Thin Mini-ITX, we're taking another look at the platform, this time with a state-of-the-art all-in-one PC that... Type: Feature article Tags: Systems	15
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
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
Zbox mini PCs get Ivy Bridge Core i3, i5 upgrades by Geoff Gasior — 10:18 AM on May 8, 2013 Zotac has beefed up its Zbox lineup with two new models based on Ivy Bridge processors. Until now, the company's most powerful mini PC... Type: News story Tags: CPUs Systems	34
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
The TR Podcast 133: Iris graphics and the Radeon HD 7990 by Jordan Drake — 9:27 PM on May 5, 2013 In this episode of the TR Podcast, we discuss Haswell's integrated graphics, examine AMD's Radeon HD 7790, share our thoughts on the latest small-form-factor... Type: Feature article Tags: Podcast	6
Weekend Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 12:08 PM on May 4, 2013 The Pick 6 Ocaholic: AMD FX-8570 and HD 8970 surfaced and Intel Core i7-4770K at 7GHz MCV: High price rumored for Nvidia's... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	59
Friday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 4:19 PM on May 3, 2013 Eight is Enough Fudzilla: AMD creates custom chip division VR-Zone: Intel Ivy Bridge-E HEDT platform to launch in September 2013 Fudzilla: ASRock Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	43
Thursday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 2:02 PM on May 2, 2013 The Pick 6 Softpedia: Intel could buy AMD as x86 CPUs lose ground to ARM NASDAQ: Seagate beats earnings, revenue down Bloomberg: Facebook... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	50
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

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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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