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Thursday Shortbread
by Ronald Hanaki — 8:43 AM on October 29, 2009

Thursday

1. Bright Side of News: AMD to increase Radeon HD 5800 prices?
2. C|Net reports Motorola sees small third-quarter profit
3. Yahoo's Bartz: We 'somehow got boring'
4. VR-Zone attends Asus Power Users' Seminar
   and rumor: AMD to cut jobs in Q1
5. DigiTimes reports Asus expects BRIC (Brazil, Russia,
   India & China) to boost its PC shipments in 2010
6. Expreview reports Nvidia scientist promises ExaScale Machine in 2017
7. NordicHardware reports AMD presents Vision, Vision Black for cutting edge gaming
8. Apple's new 27" iMac is 'stunning'
9. VR-Zone reports new MSI CR610 laptop comes with AMD Athlon II dual-core CPU and Windows 7
10. bit-tech reports Intel Core i7-930 arriving Q1 2010
11. Fudzilla reports AMD 6-core desktop (Thuban) is Q2 2010
12. C|Net reports quad-core chip makes sense for Apple laptop
13. Expreview reports MSI Big Bang Trinergy motherboards pixellized
14. NordicHardware reports ASRock launches affordable Core i5 platform - P55DE3
15. Fudzilla reports Atom D510, D410 ITX boards spec'd, priced
16. NordicHardware reports HighPoint launches PCIe SATA 6Gbps expansion cards
17. Fudzilla reports Nvidia Fermi GF100 to launch by early December
18. Hemlock is here (Radeon HD 5970)
19. Expreview reports PowerColor’s first watercooled Radeon HD 5870 looks pretty
20. Gizmodo on LG's 15" transparent AMOLED display concept
21. Motorola's Droid has Google navigation features
22. Google Voice call blocking limited, company says
23. Google launches music search with Lala and iLike
24. Ars Technica: After net neutrality, will we need "Google neutrality?"
25. TechFlash tours Google's new Kirkland campus
26. Google's Eric Schmidt on what the web will look like in 5 years
27. Win a 32GB iPod touch by taking the Hexus.net audio survey
28. Dealzon's deals: $671 off 12" Lenovo ThinkPad X200 CULV tablet,
    $30 off 15.4" Acer laptop, $30 off 10" MSI U100 LED netbook,
    and $490 off 46" Samsung LCD TV

Software

1. SuperSite for windows has Windows 7 upgrade scenarios: A new how-to series
2. Microsoft's Windows 7 challenge: Selling Live services (without being sued)
3. HardwareZone posts Windows 7 video guides
4. Ubuntu 9.10 Desktop Edition puts the user at the heart of its new design
5. Phoronix on running Ubuntu 9.10 with older PC hardware
6. Gizmodo reports Apple software update enables support for Magic Mouse
7. AVG Free 9.0 released and all AVG 8.5 products will expire (thanks p645n)
8. SeaMonkey 2.0 released
9. Windows 7 dominoes (video)

Gaming

1. DirectX 11 released for Windows Vista
2. Fudzilla reports AMD dumps DirectX 9 card support under Windows 7
3. NGOHQ on Unigine Heaven performance scaling
4. Fudzilla reports Xbox 360 gets update ahead of new features
5. Nintendo to launch larger-screen DS for $222
6. Shacknews reports Left 4 Dead 2 PC demo released
7. District 9 forged together with God of War III
8. Leaked video game footage shows terrorist attack
9. GameTrailers have BioShock 2 Capture the Sister trailer
10. Diablo-Source's exclusive interview with Diablo III's Julian Love
11. Ars Technica on games you can't play: The early copies of Borderlands
    and DJ Hero review
12. Serious Sam: The First Encounter to be released on Steam
13. Steam client update released and
    enhanced security for your Steam account

Systems and storage

1. HotHardware reviews Alienware Aurora ALX gaming system
2. PureOC reviews iBuyPower Paladin XLC V2 gaming system
3. DriverHeaven reviews Cryo Nano SFF PC
4. SPCR on Lenovo IdeaCentre Q100 nettop
5. InsideHW reviews Asus K50IN notebook
6. PCStats reviews Gigabyte GA-P55-UD3R
7. TweakTown reviews 2TB Seagate Barracuda XT SATA 6Gb/s hard drive
8. Futurelooks reviews 40GB Kingston SSDNow V Series boot drive
9. TWL reviews SanDisk Extreme Pro CFC

Multimedia

1. [H]ard|OCP reviews Asus EAH5870
2. LostCircuits on Asus EAH5850 overclocking
3. TweakTown tests HIS HD 5770 1GB in CrossFire
4. Ultimate Hardware reviews Sapphire Radeon HD 5770
5. Hardware Canucks review Gigabyte GeForce GTX 275 1792MB Super Overclock
6. Legit Reviews on Gigabyte GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Super Overclock
7. BCCHardware reviews 50" Samsung 1080p plasma TV
8. DriverHeaven reviews SteelSeries Siberia in-ear headphones
9. Brighthand's Motorola Droid for Verizon first impressions
10. TestFreaks on how stuff works: GPS receivers

Power, casing, and cooling

1. Big Bruin reviews BFG Tech EX-1000 PSU
2. PCShopTalk reviews 1000W Nexus RX-1K 80+ PSU
3. Björn3D and OCC review Lexa S chassis
4. techPowerUp! reviews Lian Li PC-V351R case
5. Ninjalane reviews SilverStone RV02 Raven 2 case
6. TWL on Azza Solano case
7. X-bit labs review ioSafe Solo
8. OCC reviews Antec Easy SATA hard drive enclosure
9. SPCR on ZEROtherm Nirvana CPU cooler
10. X-bit labs review Thermaltake Thermaltake ISGC-300 & ISGC-400 and Asus coolers
11. Hardware Secrets reviews Cooler Master Hyper TX3 CPU cooler