Go big (capacity) or go home Now that it no longer requires taking out a second mortgage to fund a solid-state drive upgrade, maybe we’ll start seeing an influx of high capacity SSDs. Is that too much to ask? Not of Patriot Memory, which arrived at the Consumer Electronics Show with its new and capacious…
Toshiba has been making some changes, and shifting its focus, which has resulted in the company cutting back on its consumer PC division and focusing more on the business market. So Maximum PC Online Managing Editor Jimmy Thang was able to visit the company’s office to see what the company has been up to since…
Proof that laptop keyboards don’t need to suck Over the course of the last couple of years, MSI has been taking the gaming laptop category by storm, and we’ve seen a lot of interesting offerings from the company. However, it’s MSI’s new GT80 Titan SLI-009 that has us intrigued. The company brought its latest system…
Radiators. Radiators everywhere. Thermaltake announced the arrival of three cube-shaped cases today, which are notable for having a ridiculous number of fan mounts, given their compact size. The three models are dubbed the Core X1, Core X2, and Core X9 (we’re afraid to ask what happened to Cores 3-8), distinguished by their sizing for mini-ITX,…
Top Deal: Time flies, doesn’t yet? Just yesterday you were piecing together an Intel Pentium Northwood system in hopes of high overclocks, or perhaps you opted for an AMD Barton system instead (ah, remember the Asus A7N8X Deluxe? Good times!). Well, it’s 2015, and if it’s been awhile since you last upgraded, now’s a great…
Who would have thought storage could be so sexy? Peanut butter and jelly go together, and the same goes for Coke and Rum. Heck, we can think of any number of combinations that make sense, but storage and sex appeal? That’s a first for us, and when we heard Seagate was combining the two, Maximum…
Riding the small and curvy tech fads After learning about HP’s Pavilion Mini and Stream Mini desktop PCs yesterday, we gave Online Managing Editor and Video Guru Jimmy Thang a special mission — seek out HP’s booth at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) and film the company’s products. It didn’t take him long to sniff…
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…