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Saturday Shortbread
by Ronald Hanaki — 9:25 PM on January 3, 2009

Saturday

1. MSNBC reports Microsoft readies cost-cuts; though massive layoff unlikely
2. MPC Corp. (Micron) closes its doors
3. techPowerUp! Forums: Creative's Zii not an audio processor, something much bigger
4. German site ATi-Forum: Nvidia's GT212 / 215 / 216 & GT218 coming soon?
   (because new GeForce 185.20 driver supports these models)
5. CPU3D reports XFX ATI cards up for pre-order
6. MSI claims Gigabyte's G41 / G43 / G45-based mainboards have crippled VGA slots
7. Fudzilla reports Sun reveals that yelling at disk drives causes high latency
8. C|Net's countdown to CES
9. LA Times: VHS era is winding down
10. Sharky Extreme's weekly CPU price guide
11. The bit-tech Hardware Awards 2008

Software and gaming

1. Cause of Zune 30 leapyear problem isolated on Zune Boards
2. Market Share: top browser share trend
3. Shacknews on video games to be released next week
4. bit-tech on the top five console games of 2008
5. Shacknews reports unannounced, cancelled
   THQ air combat game revealed in slick CG trailer
6. Website du jour: PenguinPlay (for Linux gamers)
7. Newsarama posts Dead Space #1 (comic)

Hardware

1. Laptop's exclusive hands-on with Voodoo's Firefly concept gaming laptop
2. HWBox has quad-core roundup: AMD vs. Intel clock-to-clock (in Greek)
3. NordicHardware's video: overclocking the Core i7 920
4. Phoronix reviews Opteron 2384
5. Donanim Haber: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 285 tested (in Turkish)
6. Motherboards.org reviews NZXT Tempest case
7. Hardware Secrets reviews SilverStone Fortress FT01 case
8. [OC]ModShop reviews ButtKicker LFE kit
9. Legit Reviews on CoolIT Systems Domino A.L.C.
10. Icrontic reviews Swiftech H2O-120 Compact
11. ThinkComputers reviews Noctua NH-C12P Premium CPU cooler
12. Hardware Bistro reviews Thermolab Baram cooler
13. DeXgo reviews NorthQ-3350A Max Tower and
    NorthQ-3360A Max Tower Extreme (in German)