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Friday Shortbread
by Ronald Hanaki — 2:51 PM on January 2, 2009

Friday

1. Fudzilla reports January 18th is time for energy efficient
   quad-cores from Intel and Phenom II B clocks revealed
2. C|Net: AMD inside Apple in 2009?
3. Upcoming Apple products continue to use Nvidia chipsets
4. DailyTech reports Apple shows love to the glove, developing "iGloves" for touch screens
5. The Inquirer reports Android netbook is a possibility
6. Asus reveals Xonar HDAV1.3 Series sound cards with
   Dolby TrueHD bit-stream feature for the new Blu-ray era
7. Ars Technica reports music sales up 10% in 2008, thanks to downloads (and vinyl)
8. Tech ARP posts desktop graphics card comparison guide rev. 15.7
9. Shacknews reports DRM issues spoil Steam holiday sale
10. Gaming Heaven reviews Crash Commando (PS3)

Systems and storage

1. InsideHW reviews Toshiba NB100 netbook
2. HardwareZone on Apple's MacBook - pretty pretty please?
3. AnandTech reviews Foxconn Blood Rage
4. TweakPC compares ECS Black Series P45T-A vs. Biostar TPower I45 (in German)
5. Phoronix posts Linux solid-state drive benchmarks
6. bit-tech reviews 1.5TB Seagate Barracuda 7200.11
7. Madshrimps review 320GB Western Digital Scorpio Black
8. Overclockers Club reviews 8GB Super Talent Pico-E

Multimedia. power, casing, and cooling

1. [H] Enthusiast reviews XFX GeForce GTX 260 Black Edition
2. Tech ARP's GeForce 9600 GSO to GeForce 8800 GTS 512MB mod guide
3. Technic3D reviews Perixx Periboard-306 keyboard (in German)
4. TestFreaks review Solio Hybrid 1000 solar charger
5. Björn3D reviews Glacial Altair A381 (iMon) HTPC case
6. Overclockers Club reviews D-Link DNS-323 2-bay network storage enclosure
7. ThinkComputers reviews Icy Dock MB881US-1S-1 hard drive dock
8. Futurelooks reviews Gelid Wing 12 gamer 120mm case fan
9. Björn3D revies SilenX IXG-80HA2 & IXG-3F2 coolers
10. PureOverclock reviews OCZ Gladiator Max
11. Hi Tech Legion reviews Thermaltake Bigwater 760i