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Start Menu features prominently on the cover With the official release of Windows 10 just around the corner, you should fully expect any previously unknown details about the launch or the product itself to trickle out into the public domain over the course of the next fortnight or so. That’s probably what happened on Saturday…
Top Deal: Quick, what’s the most important part of a PC? If you answered anything but “power supply,” then you’ve yet to have one fail. The first time a generic PSU gives up the ghost in dramatic fashion — sparks, loud noises, smoke coming from your PC — is the last time you’ll trust a…
Ready, fight! Let’s suppose a website got its hands on Intel’s forthcoming Core i7-6700K processor, the flagship CPU in Skylake-S that’s rumored to launch on August 5, 2015, at Gamescom. Then let’s suppose that said site benchmarked the chip and offered up comparisons to Intel’s existing Core i7-4790K (Devil’s Canyon). That would be pretty interesting,…
Better tools for stopping spam Google claims that less than 0.1 percent of email in the average Gmail inbox is spam, with the amount of junk mail landing in the spam folder being even lower at 0.05 percent. Assuming the claims are true, those are good numbers for Google to hang its hat on, though…
It’s only temporary There are three things you can count on in life — death, taxes, and overreactions to the PC market. Nearly every time an analyst or market research firm posts less than stellar shipment figures for the PC sector, sensationalist headlines follow. Gartner’s report that worldwide PC shipments declined 9.5 percent in the…
This article was published in the March 2015 issue of Maximum PC. For more trusted reviews and feature stories, subscribe here. We discover that balancing size and power is a delicate process when building a specialist content creator rig Length of Time 1–2 Hours | Difficulty: Low The Mission Sometimes we build systems in this…
And…it’s gone! Google on Wednesday added a new item to its online store, that being a tiny Ethernet adapter for its Chromecast dongle. Chromecast already comes with 802.11n Wi-Fi connectivity baked in, but if you need a wired connection for any reason, you were out of luck. Not anymore (well, sort of). The Ethernet adapter…
Yes, another Windows 10 Technical Preview Microsoft on Thursday announced a new Windows 10 Technical Preview, which is something that’s becoming a frequent occurrence as of late. The latest build (10166) adds more polish and chases off a few more bugs as Microsoft readies a final release for July 29. Build 10166 has been released…
Giving SSDs some TLC Congratulations if you’re reading this, it means you weren’t scared off by the word “affordable” in the title. For power users, terms like “affordable,” “value,” and “budget” typically translate into low performance, but that’s not necessarily the case with OCZ’s newly minted Trion 100 solid state drive line. The new drives…
photo credit: kennymatic Help diagnosing hardware problems It’s a scenario that everyone dreads: You build a computer, power it on, and then… nothing! Or you install the OS and the system starts acting up before you’ve even made your first foray onto the Internet. Or you’re using your computer and all of a sudden, something…