One of the most unique looking PCs ever Maximum PC’s Online Managing Editor and ace reporter Jimmy Thang is currently scurrying around the show floor at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, and one of his stops was to see CyberPower’s curious looking Fang Trinity PC. At a glance, it looks like the…
The seminal first-person shooter Duke Nukem 3D, originally crashed onto the scene in 1996 and forever changed the genre with tight gunplay, a new level of interactivity, and a sense of humor then unseen before in games. Now your benevolent amigos at Devolver Digital, Abstraction Games, and General Arcade have brought 3D Realms’ legendary shooter…
Thin and light workstations for the mobile road warrior HP is awfully proud of its reputation for delivering thin and light business-class laptops, and to ensure its name keeps coming up when the discussion turns to such systems, HP today introduced what it claims are the industry’s thinnest and lightest workstation Ultrabooks to date, the…
Uh, where’s the kitchen sink? Day 1 of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is quickly wrapping up, though not before Asus Republic of Gamers (ROG) could blitz gamers with a bevy of hardware, including its new Spatha and Sica Gaming Mice, Strix Tactic Pro Mechanical Gaming Keyboard, and a few other products. While not all…
Bigger Isn’t Always Better Samsung announced the Portable SSD T1 line of external solid-state drive today, the first of its kind for this company. The drive uses a standard USB 3.0 cable to connect to your PC and is backwards compatible with USB 2.0. But you’ll definitely want the faster connection — Samsung claims that…
Though CES is officially A Big Big Deal in the consumer electronics world, it’s not generally known for making a huge splash among gamers. Nevertheless, we like our gadgets and we suspect that you do, too. So in the interest of furthering the public good, we present Sony Electronics’ annual CES keynote. The festivities kick…
Hello Broadwell, nice to finally meet you Intel waited until CES to formally introduce its 5th Generation Intel Core processor family, essentially a die shrink of Haswell built on a 14nm manufacturing process. These are the Broadwell parts you’ve been waiting for — yes, we’ve already seen the Broadwell architecture manifest in Intel’s Core M…
Honey, HP shrunk the desktop! Go back in time a few years ago and we might have scoffed at the idea of palm sized desktops PCs. And if you would have tried telling us they’re as powerful as some desktop tower PCs, you would have elicited a hearty chuckle from us. Ah, but times are…
SanDisk targets tablet and laptop users with new SSD options We’ve already seen solid state drive pricing drop to around 50 cents per gigabyte and below for high performance models, and here’s hoping even lower prices are bound for 2015. In the meantime, SanDisk just unveiled a couple of new SSD lines at CES —…
Lenovo kicks off 2015 by crossing a big time milestone If you thought Lenovo would slow its roll in 2015, think again. The world’s top PC supplier is currently celebrating over 100 million ThinkPad unit sales to date, which is enough to equip every man, woman, and child in Canada almost three times over (in…