PC Gaming
The best mix of quality and speed for Battlefront If there was one big theme of the 2015 holiday season, it was John Williams’ Star Wars overture. Star Wars: Battlefront was released to the masses just a few weeks before the opening weekend of Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens, and quickly snapped up…
Lower wattage options If you own an 80 Plus certified power supply, chances are you have a high quality unit (not always, of course). However, if you’re shooting for the moon, 80 Plus Titanium is as good as it gets, and EVGA now has more SuperaNova T2 80 Plus Titanium PSUs to choose from. Initially…
Playing the patent game No other company files for and is granted more patents in the United States each and every year than International Business Machines (IBM). That’s been true of the past 23 years, with IBM leading the way again in 2015 by claiming 7,355 patents. That’s a fraction of the nearly 300,000 utility…
Better accounting is needed Here we go again, both Gartner and International Data Corporation (IDC) released some ugly numbers about how the PC market fared in the final quarter of 2015, along with some doomsday commentary. But what’s not reflected by either market research firm is the number of detachable 2-in-1 PC shipments. Let’s start…
A desk worthy of my desktop, an electric skateboard, and a 4K TV In case you didn’t know, the Maximum PC office has moved from South San Francisco to San Francisco proper (South San Francisco is actually a different city altogether, and is located, well, on the southern edge of San Francisco). While this doesn’t…
Pre-orders kick off February 1 When you think of smart glasses, Google is probably the name that first comes to mind. However, it’s not the only participant. Vuzix is also a player in the smart glasses space, and come February 1, 2016, it will begin accepting pre-orders for its next-generation M300 model. Vuzix made a…
It’s a bug squashing party AMD isn’t yet ready to roll out a brand new version of its Radeon Software Crimson Edition drivers, but in the meantime, its latest hotfix — 16.1 — addresses more than a few issues you might be experiencing. We count 30 in all, most of which are minor but still…
More high speed options Right around this time last year Toshiba was finalizing the buyout of OCZ, which had found itself in bankruptcy proceedings. Toshiba saw an opportunity to pair its NAND flash memory business with OCZ’s solid state storage operations, and because of that, OCZ continues to pump out interesting solutions. One of those…
Big price cut for a little card AMD has a post-holiday treat for small form factor builders, and it comes in the form of a price cut. It’s not an insubstantial one, either — AMD is cutting the price of its high-powered Radeon R9 Nano to $499, a savings of 23 percent off its original…
Ready, set, fight! HTC made a name for itself as a pioneer in the Android space. Tucked away in my basement, I still own an HTC Dream, otherwise known as the T-Mobile G1, and again otherwise known as the first commercially available Android handset. Unfortunately for HTC, the landscape is different now, with Samsung and…