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Saturday Shortbread
by Ronald Hanaki — 7:09 PM on April 25, 2009

Saturday

1. C|Net reports MacBook Air competitor packs thrifty Intel chip
2. Fudzilla reports AMD SB850 south bridge to consume 4W
3. NordicHardware: GT300 is MIMD chip with up to 15 times better (theoretical) performance?
   and AMD to announce complete family of DirectX 11 GPUs in H2
4. DSLReports: As Verizon goes, so goes metered billing
5. Ars Technica: Even when not explicit, ISP data caps still haunt users
6. DailyTech reports Pirate Bay trial judge admits he was member of copyright protection org
7. TG Daily reports RealNetworks and Hollywood battling over DVD ripping
8. VIA announces 4Q'08 results
9. Gizmodo: How can a hard drive's platter shatter without evidence of impact?
10. Raising Bill Gates
11. AnandTech's Phenom II buyer's guide: 955BE Edition
12. Digital Trends on why your new TV will shortly be obsolete
13. ThinkComputers has Zalman CNPS9900 LED CPU cooler giveaway

Software

1. C|Net reports Windows 7 to have an 'XP mode'
2. Screens of Windows 7 RC interactive setup and Windows XP mode
3. SuperSite for Windows has Windows 7 RC screens for Professional,
   Home Premium, Home Basic, and Starter Edition
4. Conficker virus begins to attack PCs: experts
5. TechCrunch reports Wolfram Alpha getting a public preview on Tuesday
6. Tux Radar on the road to Jaunty: A look back at Ubuntu's history
7. Windows 7 RC 32-bit vs. Vista SP1 32-bit - Gaming shooutout
8. iXBT Labs review Intel Graphics Performance Analyzer 2.0
9. TestFreaks compare 16 Twitter clients for Mac OS X

Gaming

1. Shacknews reports GameFly files USPS complaint over
   broken discs, claims preferential treatment for competitor
   and lists video games to be released next week
2. Demigod: Video status report [day 7]
3. GTA IV patch to fix stuttering issue
4. Eurogamer reports PopCap releases Peggle add-on for WoW
5. Strategy Informer's Red Faction: Guerilla interview
6. bit-tech reviews Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena
7. Gaming Heaven reviews Runes of Magic (PC)
8. GamesRadar has 1000s of Battlefield Heroes beta keys to give away

Systems and storage

1. techPowerUp! reports Athlon X2 7750 Be unlocked to quad-core
2. ITreviewed on Zotac GeForce 9300-ITX WiFi
3. Technic3D reviews Sapphire Pure CrossFireX PC-AM2RS790G
4. Ninjalane's Core i7 dual channel vs. triple channel memory test
5. Legit Reviews on 6GB OCZ Blade DDR3-2000 kit
6. CPU3D reviews 6GB OCZ Blade DDR3-1600 kit
7. Tech ARP reviews 250GB Seagate Momentus 5400.5

Multimedia, power, and cooling

1. Expreview's first review of Radeon HD 4770: $99 monster
2. Futurelooks reviews Zotac GeForce GTX 275 896MB
3. TweakTown reviews TwinTech GeForce GTS 250 XT OC 1GB
4. Motherboards.org reviews MSI N250GTS-2D1G OC
5. bit-tech reviews Etymotic hF2 custom fit earphones
6. HardwareZone's Nokia N97 sneak preview
7. Hardware Secrets reviews Enermax Aurora Micro wireless keyboard
8. Hi Tech Legion reviews Antec TP-550 power supply
9. DriverHeaven reviews 500W Enermax Liberty Eco PSU
10. PC Perspective reviews Vigor Gaming Monsoon III LT CPU cooling system
11. Björn3D reviews Thermaltake SpinQ
12. DeXgo reviews OCZ Hydroflow HF-MK1 for Core i7 (in German)