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Tuesday Shortbread
by Ronald Hanaki — 4:07 AM on September 23, 2008

Tuesday

Hardware-Infos: AMD 45nm Shanghai processors are revealed (write-up in German)
Fudzilla reports Deneb to be priced in sub $300-400 segment
DRAM prices plunge 18 percent in two weeks
China to make foreign firms reveal secret info
DailyTech reports IBM looks to beat Intel, AMD to 22nm node with chip breakthrough
Engadget reports Sony & Toshiba to begin mass producing
45nm cell processor in 2009—cheaper, slimmer PS3s to come?
TG Daily reports AMD to manufacture 40nm CPUs at TSMC in 2009?
iTnews Australia reports video game GPUs find use in biological modeling
Techgage and TG Daily report hp rumored to be closing VoodooPC;
Rahul Sood says hp not closing down VoodooPC
NordicHardware reports Shuttle D10 comes with integrated touchscreen display
DigiTimes reports notebook vendors adjust Blu-ray notebook strategy
amid changing economic realities
McAfee to pay $465 million for Secure Computing
HardwareZone Iron Tech 2008: Malaysia semi-finals round
How to equip your PC with SSD for about $200
Tech ARP on weatherproofing camera tripods
Win AMD's Radeon HD 4870 X2 card from DriverHeaven

Software and gaming

Ars Technica on Chrome antics: did Google reverse-engineer Windows?
and AmigaOS 4.1 review
Apple's patch process a mess, says researchers
Windows HPC Server 2008 released
C|Net reports e-mail, photo programs stripped from Windows 7
SuperSite for Windows on Windows 7: too soon?
and Apple iPhone 2.1 software update
Microsoft refers to its anti-Linux playbook to attack VMware
Electronista reports Palm's Nova OS now set for first-half 2009
Macsimum News reports QuickTime bug may be used as a vector for attack
tkArena on Mozilla's Thunderbird
PCGH on Crysis Warhead: scalability of CPU clock speed and number of cores
and "uber quality" and performance configs
bit-tech reviews Crysis Warhead
Gaming Heaven reviews Wipeout HD (PS3)
Shacknews on the ion element: paying $300 for toy drumgs and other gaming absurdities

Systems and multimedia

Graphics and video

Legion Hardware does CPU scaling with the GeForce GTX 280
Guru3D reviews EVGA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Superclocked
Elite Bastads review Sapphire Radeon HD 4670 512MB
Overclockers Club's September video cards roundup
t-break reviews Zotac GeForce 9800 GTX+ Zone Edition
Digit-Life compares GeCube Radeon HD 3650 O.C.
and Point of View GeForce 9600 GSO/GT EXD
DriverHeaven reviews XFX GeForce 9500 GT Alpha Dog Edition
Technic3D reviews LG W3000H 30" LCD monitor (in German)
Tweaknews reviews Samsung LN-T4681F 46" 1080p LED backlit LCD TV
HardwareZone tests Sony Alpha DSLR-A900
Hardware Secrets reviews Olympus SP-570UZ digital camera

Power, case, and cooling