Microsoft’s way or the highway If you’re planning to install Windows 10, be aware that you must first agree to receive automatic updates from the mothership. Or at least that’s a requirement that’s currently laid out in the end user license agreement (EULA) as currently constructed, which was released with the Windows 10 Technical Preview…
This article was published in the February 2015 issue of Maximum PC. For more trusted reviews and feature stories, subscribe here. So, an eight-core Intel CPU, three video cards, and a new Samsung SSD walk into a bar… Length of Time 2-4 Hours | Difficulty: Medium The Mission Over the course of a year, hardware…
What we already know about Windows 10 is that customers currently running Windows 7 SP1 and Windows 8.1 will have a year to upgrade to Windows 10 for free when the new platform launches on July 29. Customers with the “Get Windows 10” app sitting on their system tray are now encouraged to reserve a…
Not your ordinary mouse (or is it?) Cougar is calling its new 550M mouse a “flagship gaming” rodent, which is an odd descriptor considering that Cougar also offers at least two seemingly higher end options, the 600M and 700M. The hype doesn’t stop there. According to Couger, the 550M “is the result of years of…
Do you know what sucks about the playing the waiting game? No matter what technology you wait for, there’s always something faster, shinier, and overall better on the horizon. Every. Single. Time. The only way to win the game is not to play at all. Of course, we’re close enough to Skylake that you might…
Oh what a mess. Kotaku Australia has supposedly received a leaked email meant for the eyes of EB Games staff members stating that the PC version of Batman: Arkham Knight won’t be fixed until this Spring, or in the case of North America, this Fall. According to the report, prior to the email, EB Games…
Hot on the heels of an unnamed source claiming that Windows 10 Technical Preview 10240 would be the RTM build, Microsoft released 10240 to Windows Insiders on Wednesday… and it’s not the RTM. At least, there are no glaring signs pointing to the possibility. News of the new 10240 build arrive after Microsoft halted the…
Good luck finding a more powerful PC in a smaller package Back in the day, in order to get an exorbitant amount of PC power, you really needed a hulking desktop. The more likely it was to break your back upon liftoff, the more bad-ass it would be. While a bigger box may give you…
I can see my hands! It’s hard not to get excited about Oculus Rift, especially with all the moves Oculus VR has been making. The latest play is an agreement to buy Pebblies Interfaces, an Israeli startup that specializes in depth sensing technology and computer vision. Using various sensors and algorithms, Pebbles Interfaces is able…
Cannonballing into Cannonlake will have to wait If you were hoping for a 10-nanometer successor to Skylake in 2016, Intel has some bad news. Challenges with the new manufacturing process have prompted Intel to delay its Cannonlake release until “the second half of 2017,” according to Intel CEO Brian Krzanich. Cannonlake was supposed to replace…