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Big capacity in a little stick Toshiba’s proud as a peacock about its new SG5 series of consumer focused solid state drives. Why? The SG5 series is Toshiba’s first client SATA SSD to support a 1TB capacity in an M.2 form factor. That’s not the only capacity available—the SG5 series will also be available in…
Stuff to build stuff One of the great things about working at Maximum PC is that I’m always building things. And by things, I mean PCs. Like many people, I enjoy working with my hands and doing projects myself, as long as I have the appropriate hardware and tools at my disposal. I have a…
Top Deal: Flash drives are convenient, but when you need to take multiple terabytes of data with you, a portable hard drive is the ticket. They’re capacious, cost effective, and some of them even look pretty good. For example, check out today’s top deal for a Seagate 4TB Expansion Portable External Hard Drive USB 3.0…
Vulkan has landed Remember AMD’s proprietary Mantle API? It died an unceremonious death a year ago, but large bits and pieces of it were picked up by The Khronos Group, a non-profit industry consortium that promotes and develops open standard APIs. Those pieces formed the foundation of Vulkan, which itself is the next iteration of…
Fill her up! Some lucky motorists in Toledo, Ohio were able to purchase gas for less than 20 cents per gallon over the weekend due to a computer glitch. Most of the motorists who benefited paid around 17 cents to 19 cents per gallon of gas, though in some instances, the price dropped all the…
Three-headed monster It’s been just over a year since Sony spun off its Vaio PC brand to a Japanese investment firm so that it could focus on its mobile business. At the time, it wasn’t clear what the future would look like for Vaio, though as it turns out it could be a key piece…
Last week, The Pirate Bay introduced a new “service” that allows visitors to stream movie and TV show torrents in a web browser, eliminating the need to install a standalone third-party BitTorrent client. This is made possible by the Torrents-Time browser plugin, the maker of which insists that its software doesn’t break any laws because…
Unnamed sources have informed the Wall Street Journalthat Google is working on a standalone VR headset focused in the midrange of the VR hardware spectrum, that doesn’t require a phone, a game console, or a computer. Sources told the paper that Google’s VR headset will consist of outward-facing cameras, high-powered processors, and a screen. The…
Top Deal: Not feeling the performance benefits of Skylake just yet? That’s okay, you can still build and/or upgrade a PC on previous generation architecture and still have a powerhouse on your hands. Case in point, today’s top deal for an Intel Core i7-4790K Devil’s Canyon Quad-Core 4.0 GHz LGA 1150 Processor for $325 with…
USB Type-C Cable controversy Cable makers are apparently having a bear of a time constructing reliable USB Type-C cables, and it’s not entirely clear why. Perhaps they’re underestimating the importance of building these newfangled cables to spec or maybe they’re cutting corners to save a few pennies—whatever the case might be, consumers are paying the…