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Thursday Shortbread
by Ronald Hanaki — 3:56 AM on August 6, 2009

Thursday

Engadget reports Hitachi one-ups WD with industry first 2TB 7200 RPM 3.5" hard drive
TC Magazine reports PCI Express 3.0 delayed until 2010
DigiTimes reports ECS and MSI conservative about ARM-based smartbooks
Google bolsters video push with On2 deal
Tax concerns to push Microsoft Azure cloud hosting out of Washington state
Palm complains about iTunes lockout
Ars Technica reports Comcast adopts DNS hijacking, imposes irritating opt-out
DSLReports: Time Warner Cable gets more Extreme
Liquidation starts for bankrupt DRAM maker Qimonda
Fudzilla reports Pentium E6500 coming next week
and MSI has two 785G DDR2 motherboards
The Register reports TMS wins flash bragging crown with 100TB monster
Solid-state rivalry sizzles: Toshiba ships 512GB SSD
ChipHell posts alleged Radeon HD 5870 (RV870) picture
VR-Zone reports Creative introduced Inspire T3130 and T6160 speaker systems
C|Net's Zune HD hands-on look, impressions, tears of joy
PC World: Is iPhone 3GS 8GB coming soon?
and hot portable media players to look out for
PC Perspective's podcast #68
Win an Asus GTX 260 Matrix from DriverHeaven
OT: Molecular trap makes fresher beer

Software

Critical Windows 7 bug risks derailing product launch
C|Net reports Windows 7 bug likely not a 'showstopper'
DailyTech reports Windows 7 RTM gets benchmarked, results are mixed
MSDN, TechNet users to get Windows 7 today
SuperSite for Windows on upgrading to Windows 7 (RTM update)
TechReviewSource on Windows 7 RTM: New feature roundup
Windows 7 for Developers: User account control data redirection
OpenOffice users: Just say no to a Microsoft-like Ribbon interface
Ars Technica reports Mac OS X 10.5.8 chock full of security, reliability
fixes and has hands-on: KDE 4.3 delivers a social desktop
Google Chrome themes gallery
Apple censors a dictionary app
TechSpot's tech tip: Remove notification bar in AVG 8.5
DriverHeaven's Nvidia Mobility Modder V1.1.0.0

Gaming

Kotaku reports Xbox 360 Pro being phased out pretty soon?
Microsoft claims you want form over function with Xbox Netflix
Eurogamer reveals Xbox Live GOD (games on demand) lineup
Games for Windows - Live Setup 3.0
id Software on Wolfenstein MP leak
Shacknews reports StarCraft II delayed to 2010, Battle.net blamed, but
Diablo 3 unaffected by StarCraft II delay, two releases coming next year
Call of Duty: World at War Map Pack 3 trailer
Dawn of War II SCAR documentation
Warcraft III 1.24 patch information
1UP reports Wizardry returns to Nintendo DS
The German ban on action games may force Crysis developers to move out of country
A beginner's guide to competitive Team Fortress 2
Steam news: Planned downtime on Thursday, August 6th
and save 30% - just released - The Witcher: Enhanced Edition Director's Cut
and ARMA 2 update released
Boomtown reviews East India Company
Gaming Heaven reviews Fat Princess and Singstar Queen (both for PS3)

Systems and storage

bit-tech shows how to build the best folding rig
AnandTech has AMD vs. Intel: Battery life investigated
HardwareZone reviews Samsung X460 14" notebook
PC Perspective's Asus Eee PC 1005HA Seashell netbook video review
TweakTown reviews Acer Aspire One D250-1165 netbook
InsideHW reviews ViewSonic VNB100 netbook
CowcotLand reviews ASRock Ion 330 nettop (in French)
PCGH has Lynnfield tested: Core i5 720 and Core i7 860
benchmarked in Anno 1404: Dawn of Discovery
Expreview's exclusive: Get SLI for your P45 motherboard
VR-Zone's Asus P7P55D Deluxe preview
bit-tech reviews Gigabyte GA-MA785GMT-UD2H
Expreview's AMD 785G chipset motherboards roundup
OCC's AMD 785G chipset motherboard preview
ProClockers review 3GB Kingston HyperX DDR3-2000 memory kit
TweakTown tests 4 Kingston SSDNow E (Intel X25-E) SSDs in RAID 0 - Windows 7
Guru3D and PureOC review 120GB OCZ Agility SSD