International Shareware Day Shortbread
International Shareware Day C|Net reports Intel to preview new chips on December 17 AMD receives $1.25 billion check from Intel DigiTimes reports Asus board reveals more details on Pegatron spin off TG Daily...
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Friday night topic: On the awesomeness of zombies
TR reader Sargent Duck sends in a very relevant suggestion for the Friday Night Topic in light of tonight's L4D2 blog post from Cyril. Here's the question: What's with our infatuation of zombies? I know myself I enjoy killing them with a vengeance, wither it be pithing their heads with...
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Deal of the week: A Radeon HD 5850 in stock for $310
We can't tell if it's going to last, but apparently, AMD's Radeon HD 5800-series cards are no longer completely absent from e-tail stocks. At the very least, Newegg currently carries three Radeon HD 5850s and four Radeon HD 5870s. We've hardly seen so many cards in stock since...
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Intel releases Turbo Boost monitoring gadget
One of the most interesting features of Intel's Core i5 and Core i7 processors is Turbo Boost, which can scale the clocks of individual cores beyond the base speed depending on load. Turbo Boost has gotten especially potent in Lynnfield and Clarksfield processors: the Core i7-820QM, for instance, can...
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Poll: Gigabytes vs. gibibytes
You may not know it, but the world of technology is split into two camps right now. For one camp, megabytes, gigabytes, and terabytes are all powers of 10. Hard drive makers are part of that clique, as is Apple, at least since the release of Mac OS X...
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Stylish Aurora keyboard goes wireless, adds trackball
We were quite fond of Enermax's Aurora Premium keyboard and the tactile feedback of its scissor-switch key mechanisms, so this announcement caught our eye. Enermax has introduced the Aurora Micro Wireless, a new brushed aluminum keyboard that trades the Premium model's cord and numeric keypad for a laser...
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A couple of months with SanDisk's Sansa Clip+ MP3 player
SanDisk's Sansa Clip has been the best mini MP3 player for a couple of years. Now there's a new model: the Clip+. We spend a couple of months with one to see whether it's just as good asآ—or even better thanآ—the original.
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Official Windows 7 USB installer goes open-source
Users with netbooks and consumer ultraportable laptops can now upgrade to Windows 7 using a free, open-source tool... released by Microsoft this week. No, you haven't slipped into a bizarro dimension where Richard Stallman and Steve Ballmer have switched places. Rather, as Ars Technica reports, Microsoft has made the...
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