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Saturday Shortbread
by Ronald Hanaki — 11:54 PM on October 10, 2009

Saturday

1. Expreview and VR-Zone report Nvidia GeForce GT 240 benchmarks surface
2. Strong Intel third-quarter expected, outlook crucial
3. Western Digital sets October 22 for Q1 fiscal 2010
   financial results conference call and webcast
4. Ars Technica reports AT&T CTO downplays role of iPhone in network's issues
5. TorrentFreak reports Swedish Court of Appeal says 'no' thrice to The Pirate Bay
6. Nvidia's chipset business headed for chop
7. Hardware Canucks covers Nvidia's GTC: Nvidia's new focus in a changing market
8. ATi-Forum reports AMD plans new Eyefinity options (in German)
9. Book trade seeks a deal with Google
10. Overclockers Online's NZXT contest

Software and gaming

1. Complete video of Steve Ballmer's keynote (introducing Windows 7) at Technet Live
2. Windows XP Mode and Windows Virtual PC (support documentation)
3. Windows 7 boots slower than Vista, says study
4. Trend Micro on new Adobe zero-day exploit
5. Dell to promote Salesforce software to PC customers
6. Video: The new Windows Mobile advertisement is kind of strange
7. CzechGamer has DirectX 11 games release roadmap (in Czech)
8. Left 4 Dead update released on Steam
9. Kotaku reports patch lets Left 4 Dead out of the closet
10. Sony: The death of consumer loyalty
11. C|Net on the 5 best (and worst) game preorder trends
12. Shacknews on video games to be released next week
13. Modern Warfare 2 interview: Infinity Ward talks matchmaking in Australia
14. Diablo III interview part III: Items
15. TweakTown reviews FIFA 10 (Xbox 360)

Systems and multimedia

1. AnandTech on MSI P55-GD65 - Mid-range P55 for the masses
2. Hi Tech Legion reviews Gigabyte P55-UD4P
3. LostCircuits: Rambus / Kingston threaded DDR3 technology deep dive
4. PCShopTalk reviews 4GB OCZ Blade PC2-8500 memory kit
5. Expreview's hands-on With Inno3D GTX 295 iChill Black Edition
6. GPUCafé posts AMD Radeon HD 5770 benchmarks
7. Madshrimps have Sapphire Radeon HD 5870 tested in 15 benchmarks
8. DriverHeaven reviews HIS, XFX & Sapphire Radeon HD 5850 & 5870
9. ComputerWorld on how the iPhone works

Cases and cooling

1. Hardware Secrets reviews In Win Maelstrom case
2. Rbmods on NZXT M59 case
3. DragonSteelMods review NZXT Panzerbox
4. InsideHW reviews Logitech Cooling Pad N100
5. ThinkComputers reviews NZXT Cryo S laptop cooler
6. OverclockersHQ reviews Cooler Master Notepal U1 laptop cooler
7. FrostyTech reviews Evercool Transformer 5 heatsink
8. DriverHeaven's Arctic Cooling roundup - October 2009