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Basic photo editing with GIMP If Microsoft Paint isn’t enough for your photo-editing needs, GIMP is the next logical step. It’s totally free, open-source, and can go toe-to-toe with Photoshop—at least in terms of basic image manipulation. Need to crop a photo? Look no further. Want to add some basic filters or effects? GIMP has…
Top Deal: Solid state drives are the sexy storage option these days, but mechanical hard drives still have their place. They’re comparatively cheap, capacious, and generally offer superior data retention if you need to unplug it from a power source. If you’re looking for a new drive for your expanding data needs, check out today’s…
SSDs without a power source could begin losing data in just a single week It’s more affordable than ever to build a new PC with a solid state drive as the primary storage device, and as capacities increase, some people are using SSDs for storage chores, too. That’s fine and dandy if your SSD is…
FCC will forge ahead with new neutrality rules The Federal Communications Commission wasn’t moved by a joint petition filed by a group of U.S. cable companies and telecom providers seeking to delay implementing new net neutrality rules until a court can rule on the matter. For that to happen, the petitioners would have to show…
SSD-6000M to begin shipping in July Japanese firm Fixstars may not be a familiar name in the storage space but it is doing everything it possibly can to change that. In February, it introduced the 3TB SSD-3000M in the States, claiming it to be the world’s highest-capacity 2.5” SATA SSD (solid-state drive). But the SSD-3000M…
Preview build lacks key drivers So you just received the Surface 3 tablet you had pre-ordered a while back and are now planning to install Windows 10 on it? Not so fast. That’s not what Microsoft would like you to do — and it has strong reasons for it. The Surface 3 is, for the…
CHIP is a single-board computer that runs Linux Raspberry Pi is probably the first name that springs to mind when one thinks of single-board micro computers, but if the folks at Next Thing Co. are successful with their latest product the micro PC movement could soon have a new poster child. Founded last year, the…
Offers buyers a partial refund Touted as the “world’s lightest” 13.3-inch laptop, Lenovo LaVie Z was one of the most talked about products at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show, but it has all been downhill since then. When the device began shipping a few days back, it became clear that the Chinese vendor had over-promised…
Can we combine compact size, high performance, and loads of storage? We’ll give it a shot Length of Time: 1–2 Hours | Level of Difficulty: Low The Mission If you couldn’t tell by now, we’re performance junkies here at Maximum PC. Just last summer, we were crazy enough to build a $30,000 liquid-cooled computer with…
Top Deal: Life is too short to be stressed out, don’t you agree? Stress results in all kinds of nasty side effects, like diminished health, anxiety, graying of the hairs, and just plain bad moods. Want punch stress square in the face? Then check out today’s top deal for an Asus GeForce STX 980 Graphics…