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Thursday Shortbread
by Ronald Hanaki — 12:00 AM on June 18, 2009

Thursday

Engadget reports the Outlet Wall concept is true wall wart nirvana
DigiTimes reports Asus unable to assure profitability in 2Q09
Expreview's interview with Jen-Hsun Huang, CEO of Nvidia
TG Daily reports Nvidia's boss aims for computing hegemony
NordicHardware: 6-core Gulftown in Q3 2009 already? (Related story here)
Fudzilla reports Intel suggests sub-$400 netbook price
and Larrabee is 2010
C|Net on AMD, Congo, and the perils of code names
The Register reports Dell grows Intel 'Nehalem EP' iron
VR-Zone reports Kingston first to market 128GB USB flash drive
and Sony announces stylish Bluetooth mouse VGP-BMS10
Intel on expanding long-term memory for chips
Bing continues to show growth in search activity, according to comScore
TechFlash reports Amazon warns North Carolina over sales tax legislation
DSLReports: Lawmaker unveils anti-metered billing law
AT&T lets more iPhone users upgrade for lower price
DailyTech reports Apple hints at plans to lock Palm Pre out of iTunes
Obama backs repeal of tax on personal cellphones
High drama and low points in RIAA trial
ISPreview UK has reactions to Digital Britain report - Broadband ISPs and industry comment
HardwareZone covers CommunicAsia 2009: Sony Ericsson's announcements

Software

Stardock's Wardell: 'Switch to Windows 7 as quickly as possible'
Tweak.dk reports Asus to offer Windows 7 upgrade to
customers who purchase an Asus PC during eligibility period
ComputerWorld reports Microsoft to offer IE8 at retail for EU Windows 7 buyers
Running Windows 7 on a 266MHz Pentium II
SuperSite Blog reports default Start Menu icons will differ between Windows 7 versions
More alleged Microsoft Morro screen shots, details leak
iPhone, iPod security flaws get 45 patches
Ars Technica's hands-on review: iPhone OS 3.0 chock full of changes
TG Daily: Is it time for Nvidia to ditch CUDA?
ATi-Forum's Catalyst 9.5 vs. Catalyst 9.6 test (in German)
TestFreaks review CPU-Z
ITreviewed on Zoho Writer 2.0
ABT: How to achieve higher quality HD than YouTube?

Gaming

Big Download reports Atari and Threewave comment
on lack of multiplayer in Ghostbusters PC game
TechRadar UK on the evolution of gaming graphics
Shacknews has MAG trailer: Putting the FPS genre 'on steroids'
TG Daily reports DoD confirms worldwide deployment of America's Army 3
IGN reports Max Payne 3 details emerge
Activision: Singularity demo is 'absolutely critical'
FiringSquad reports Ubisoft games sale on Impulse
Cinema Blend reports Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood goes gold
PCGH on Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood: Graphics card
benchmarks and quality settings compared
OCC's Cryostasis Sleep of Reason performance evaluation
YouGamers review The Sims 3 (PC)
Gaming Heaven reviews Virtua Tennis 2009 (PS3)

Systems and storage

TweakTown reviews ASRock Ion 330-BD nettop: Affordable, overclockable, and 1080p HD
ITreviewed on hp TouchSmart IQ830
TechSpot reviews OCZ Neutrino 10" DIY netbook
HotHardware: Intel talks Core i7 975 Extreme, Computex, Westmere & more
AnandTech and bit-tech on Intel's Core i5 and i3 branding announcement
Fudzilla reports mobile Clarksfield starts at 1.6GHz
Elite Bastards have Asus Maximus III Formula: First look in pictures
Neoseeker reviews Gigabyte GA-MA790XT-UD4P
[H]ard|OCP: Why do you need more than 6GB of memory?
Hardware Canucks review 6GB OCZ Blade PC3-16000 triple channel kit
Motherboards.org reviews 2TB Western Digital Caviar Green
TechwareLabs review 1TB Western Digital Caviar Green
PC Perspective reviews Indilinx-based OCZ Vertex and Super Talent UltraDrive ME SSDs
Legit Reviews has OCZ Vertex EX SSD update guide to firmware v1.20
Big Bruin reviews 16GB Patriot Duplicator SDHC card

Multimedia

Expreview reports EVGA goes official with single PCB GTX 295 CO-OP and waterblock for it
Gainward's GeForce GTX 295 single PCB (write-up in French)
DriverHeaven reviews Sapphire Radeon HD 4890 Atomic
Ultimate Hardware reviews XFX Radeon HD 4770
HT4U reviews PowerColor Radeon HD 4730 (in German)
Expreview reports Sparkle unveils the X-Link USB-to-DVI adapter
AnandTech: Desperately seeking quality LCDs
Digital Trends on top summer gadgets

Power, cases, and cooling