March 27, 2015

Google’s OSes Duke It Out Windows is dead. Haven’t you heard? Yeah, right, we don’t believe that for a parsec (although we wouldn’t mind if Modern got swallowed alive by a Sarlacc to be slowly digested alive for a thousand years.) Still, for those who are living in their post-PC fantasy, the OS of choice…

Top Deal: Ah, so you read our RAID 0 guide, grabbed yourself a pair of drives, and are now rocking a super fast setup — congrats! Just remember that RAID 0 isn’t a backup solution. Heck, it’s not redundant. So if you need to backup your data, one possible solution is today’s top deal for…

Enticing offer for the Android camp It doesn’t appear that Samsung needs much help selling Android fans on its recently released Galaxy S6 or Galaxy S6 Edge smartphones, but just in case you’re on the fence, the South Korean handset maker is hoping a little nudge from T-Mobile will help. That nudge comes in the…

Vive Developer Edition “will be free, at least initially” At GDC 2015, Valve was able to impress many people with its SteamVR technology including our own Maximum PC Online Managing Editor Jimmy Thang (see what he thought about the SteamVR demo). But what is surprising is that the company announced that a consumer version will…

Microsoft, Google, and Apple among tech companies fighting against provision in the Patriot Act The collection of metadata by government agencies, such as the National Security Agency, has been a source of contention for tech companies forced to hand over the information in bulk to the US Government. Section 215 of the Patriot Act allows…

Holy high capacity, Batman! When it comes to storage, you typically have to choose between raw performance or oodles of storage space. If you value the former, a solid state drive is hands down the way to go. And if you need the latter, well, traditional hard drives with spinning platters are still the best…