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Thursday Shortbread
by Ronald Hanaki — 9:20 AM on May 28, 2009

Thursday

Time Warner to separate AOL near year end
DSLReports: AT&T announces HSPA 7.2 upgrade
Engadget reports SATA revision 3.0 specification completed and released
Intel: The future of netbook vs. notebook
PC World reports Asus G51 gaming laptop due in US by July
TG Daily reports Apple upgrades MacBook with faster processor, larger hard drive
bit-tech reports Intel P55 and Lynnfield to launch on September 1st
and Intel to discontinue Core i7 920 & 940 CPUs
Bright Side of News: Gainward and Palit blast AMD for their
GPU product policy and AMD and anti-competitive practices
The Inquirer reports Nvidia is out at Dell
and AMD to get DX11 cards out this year
Matbe on the shortage of HD 4770 cards: AMD reacts
by pricing the HD 4850 to 99€ (write-up in French)
techPowerUp! reports Asus designs own monster dual-GTX 285 4GB graphics card
VR-Zone reports Galaxy to showcase single PCB GTX 295 at Computex
Hexus.net reports PowerColor jumps the gun, announces Radeon HD 4730
NordicHardware reports Gigabyte GA-P55-UD5 feeds Core i5 with 24 phases
Hardware-Infos: Pentium E2210 an OEM CPU (write-up in German)
Fudzilla reports Super Talent announces new MasterDrive SSDs
VR-Zone reports Razer debuts Sphex, the world's thinnest mousing surface
Autonomous Living Unit by Eduardo McIntosh
NYT: Texting could harm the development of teens

Software and gaming

TestFreaks compare Vista SP1 vs. SP2
Skyfire mobile browser gets full release (thanks Neutronbeam)
Ars Technica's hands-on: Google Chromium browser alpha for Linux
XSReviews on EASUS Partition Manager
PC gaming daunted but unbowed by recession, according to JPR
Ars Technica on a landmark study: DRM truly does make pirates out of us all
Digital Trends on E3 2009: What to expect
FiringSquad reports Wolfenstein gets a date: August 4th
Fallout 3 game add-on pack now available in stores, offers free Vault Boy poster
Shacknews previews Dead Space Extraction
bit-tech reviews Damnation
Gaming Heaven reviews Bionic Commando (Xbox 360)

Systems and storage

VIA Arena reports VIA targets server market, again
Legit Reviews on Axentra's HipServ 2.0 / Marvell Sheeva Plug - $99 plug computing
HotHardware covers AMD's Phenom II hardcore overclocking event
HardwareZone on Intel's Pine Trail and Nehalem-EX platform updates
iXBT Labs test Core 2 with various FSB / memory clock rates
CPU3D reviews DFI LANParty JR 790GX-M3H5
TweakTown reviews Asus M4A79T Deluxe
Hardware Canucks review 6GB Mushkin Redline Ascent PC3-12800 kit
Björn3D reviews 4GB Kingston HyperX DC DDR3-1600 kit
CCE Reviews on 64GB G.Skill Falcon SSD
DriverHeaven's Super Talent / OCZ flash drives roundup
Björn3D reviews Spire CombiPod card reader
Rbmods on 1TB LaCie 2big network external NAS
TechwareLabs review Synology DS209+ NAS