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Saturday Shortbread
by Ronald Hanaki — 4:01 PM on October 11, 2008

Saturday

Intel cut to sell rating in face of 'perfect storm'
TheStreet reports AMD's ex-CEO set for nice payout (thanks pdjblum)
Apple shares surge, investors like valuation
Apple set to release $800 notebook
PC Perspective on Apple and Nvidia: MacBooks with GeForce chipsets are nearly here
Engadget: new MacBooks to be based on Nvidia GeForce 9400 / 9300 chipsets?
Yahoo reports Apple will fix MacBook Pros with faulty Nvidia chips
Register Hardware reports Toshiba launches latest MacBook Air beater
Asus launches self-designed graphics cards with Dark Knight fansink and luxurious components
Fudzilla reports 450mm fabs coming in 2017
and AMD to abandon SOI after 45nm
Nordic Hardware: back at Intel, overclocking startling
Engadget reports SteelSeries WoW MMO gaming mouse
makes wasting your life that much easier
BurnOutPC posts exclusive photos of an unnamed Raidmax chassis
vnunet.com reports Japanese scientists develop long-life Flash
TorrentFreak reports court deems Pirate Bay block illegal
HardwareZone's Iron Tech 2008: Thailand semi-finals
Computing on Demand has a bunch of giveaways

Software and gaming

Linux kernel 2.6.27 released
Mandriva Linux 2009 released
Microsoft expected to release Silverlight 2 next week
Before Dark's Nvidia driver comparison: 178.13 vs. 178.15
TG Daily: will Microsoft's Xbox 360 kick the Apple TV out of your living room
PCWorld reports Microsoft sues DHL after train dumps 21,600 Xboxes
Gamasutra reports from Blizzcon: StarCraft II to release as trilogy of games
Steam: save $5 when you pre-purchase Far Cry 2
and Steam client update released
Shacknews on video games to be released next week
Hardware Canucks have Crysis Warhead hardware performance review
TestFreaks review Crysis Warhead
Shacknews has Diablo 3 & Dead Space hands-on impressions
and Diablo 3: The Wizard's Talent Trees unveiled
I4U reviews Spore (PC)
Ars Technica reviews terrorist propaganda games