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Surface tension Both Dell and HP recently inked deals with Microsoft to sell Surface Pro tablets to enterprise customers. What about Lenovo, the world’s top supplier of PCs in terms of market share? Don’t count on it. Gianfrano Lanci, president and COO of Lenovo, stated at the recent Canalys Channels Forum that Microsoft approached the…
This article was published in the October 2015 issue of Maximum PC. For more trusted reviews and feature stories, subscribe here. We reveal who’s watching you online and the best ways to shut them out Picture the scene. You’re minding your own business, happily downloading torrents, when the FBI storm your room and drag you…
There’s nothing more visually annoying than seeing cables draped along the bottom of the wall and snaking their way up the table and into your HDTV. This is especially true when you’re wanting to play your favorite titles on a bulky gaming rig that’s located in a nearby room. Thankfully Valve has now eradicated the…
Three-way battle The laptop market has been flooded with low-cost options, and that’s fine if you’re in the market for something cheap and affordable for general purpose computing chores. Where things get a little more interesting is at the high end, and with Microsoft rolling out what it considers the “ultimate laptop,” otherwise known as…
Top Deal: One of the unsung heroes of the PC is the printer. Without it, those TPS reports and Lost Cat flyers would have to be hand written or punched out on a typewriter (remember those things?). If you need one (a printer, that is), check out today’s top deal for an HP Officejet Pro…
This mouse doesn’t cost a lot of cheddar Peripherals makers like to put the squeeze on gamers, don’t they? It seems that a surefire way to command a premium on a product is to slap the world “gaming” on it and BAM, it’s an instant high dollar item. We’re not saying all gaming products are…
Appreciating the classics There are some downright wild case designs out there. Heck, Lian Li makes some of them, though its new PC-18 mid-tower chassis is a brushed aluminum enclosure with an intentionally minimalist aesthetic. Lian Li said it was going for a classic look, hence the rectangular shape without any crazy deviations or color…
Samsung announced today that they have partnered with Ubisoft to bundle the upcoming Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate (ACS) with select Samsung SSDs and monitors. The latest title in the long-running Assassin’s Creed universe, Syndicate is scheduled to ship November 19 for PC and October 23 for PS4/XB1; obviously, this bundle is for the PC version—console gamers…
Registration required Nvidia’s doing its best to transform its GeForce Experience software from something supplementary into an integral part of the gaming experience. One way it’s doing that is by changing how gamers receive title-specific drivers on a game’s day of release. Beginning sometime in December, automatic access to Game Ready drivers that provide optimizations…
Adobe After Effects is a popular tool for adding images and visual effects to video, but can be daunting to those unfamiliar with it. In this how-to, we’ll cover the basics so that you can start experimenting without feeling completely lost. First though, we should cover some of the lingo. Composition This is simply a…