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Dream Machine meets Large Pixel Collider Maximum PC has been around for over 20 years now. Starting out as the ground-breaking boot magazine, we’ve been covering PC tech and culture with an attitude ever since. With the launch of the Maximum PC website several years ago, we were able to expand our coverage of hardware…
Sea god 2.0, now with more lighting options At a Glance (+) Finding Nemo: Futuristic design; thumb rest; dual-mode scroll wheel.(-) Sharknado: Scroll wheel is loud! The Logitech Proteus Spectrum is arguably one of the most anticipated peripherals from Logitech. Building on the success of the Logitech G502 Proteus Core, the Spectrum version has been…
Top Deal: Think about all the typing you do in any given day, whether it’s hammering out reports and emails or mashing buttons in a frenzied online battle. You’re only as good as your tools, and if you’re still using a squishy membrane or dome-switch keyboard, it’s time for an upgrade. Mechanical key switches are…
Force feeding Windows 10 Head over to Twitter or Reddit and you’ll discover a whole bunch of angry users raging against Microsoft for supposedly upgrading their systems to Windows 10 without their consent. “Wtf. I left my computer unattended and when I came back it was installing Windows 10. I’m 100 percent sure that no…
Epic Games co-founder Tim Sweeney is back at it again with another shot at Microsoft and its Universal Windows Platform (UWP). He says that the industry must fight the company, which is accused of attempting to “monopolize and control” the PC gaming market with the new platform. He and other developers feel that UWP is…
Jumping off the Bitcoin bandwagon If you were saving up your Bitcoins with plans of going on a shopping spree for Windows apps and games, you’ll first have to covert them to U.S. currency. That’s because Microsoft has quietly announced that it’s no longer accepting Bitcoin currency. There wasn’t a big press release or blog…
A “Do’h!” moment for a DDoS protection company A security outfit that prides itself on DoS and DDoS attack protection and mitigation was itself the victim of a DDoS attack late last week and over the weekend. Staminus Communications first disclosed the attack to the public last Thursday in a Twitter post, calling it a…
Portable power In order to get a respectable amount of power from a gaming laptop, it’s got to be big and bulky. That’s been accepted as gospel for quite some time, but now we have notebooks like Digital Storm’s Equinox as exceptions to the rule. Armed with a 6700HQ and a 970M, the laptop is…
What the hell? While many PC gamers are joyfully hacking away in Blizzard Entertainment’s current Diablo III: Reaper of Souls expansion, the company has released a patch for the ancient second installment Diablo II, a PC game released way back in 2000. This is the first patch for the classic title since Blizzard released the…