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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	16
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	78
Deals of the week: IPS displays, graphics cards, storage, and games by Cyril Kowaliski — 5:14 PM on May 17, 2013 We've gathered a pretty nice selection of deals this week. We've got a heavily discounted 23" IPS monitor, a Radeon that's on sale and bundled... Type: News story Tags: Graphics Storage Displays	15
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
Release roundup: Flash drives, Thunderbolt, and an arcade controller by Cyril Kowaliski — 5:09 PM on May 16, 2013 This week on the roundup, we've got news about flash drives from Adata, a Thunderbolt-enabled Haswell mobo from ASRock, and an arcade-style fighting game controller... Type: News story Tags: Motherboards Storage Input devices	17
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
Report: Windows 8.1 expected in late October by Cyril Kowaliski — 11:35 AM on May 16, 2013 Earlier this week, Microsoft announced that Windows 8.1 would be a free upgrade for Windows 8 users. We also learned that a public preview... Type: News story Tags: Operating systems Windows	55
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
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	70
Deal of the week: 4TB for $184, and other goodies by Cyril Kowaliski — 5:49 PM on May 10, 2013 We'll keep this week's deal post short and sweet, starting with a few hardware bargains: Seagate's Desktop HDD.15 4TB hard drive... Type: News story Tags: Power Storage Displays Gaming	73
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
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
It's official: Windows Blue public preview coming in June by Cyril Kowaliski — 9:11 AM on May 8, 2013 Microsoft is getting awfully chatty about Windows Blue this week. Yesterday, company CFO and marketing chief Tami Reller teased the upcoming OS update. Now,... Type: News story Tags: Operating systems Windows	44
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
Microsoft: 100 million Win8 licenses sold, Windows Blue is coming by Cyril Kowaliski — 9:17 AM on May 7, 2013 How's Windows 8 selling? About as well as Windows 7 did three years ago, judging by numbers posted this morning on the official Windows... Type: News story Tags: Windows	55

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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... +26

Alexko

"Quark, drunk on money, power, and an estimated 90% market share, started behavi... +24

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