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A look at the settings Windows 10 users can manipulate for a more useful, enjoyable Cortana experience Wouldn’t it be just grand if we could have a virtual personal assistant that took care of all of our needs, and not just keep track of scheduled appointments or weather conditions? There’s no doubt that we’re heading…

Top Deal: Summer is upon us and that means taking vacations. The only thing is, how do you get your gaming fix when the evening rolls around and you’re stuck with nothing to do in your hotel room? The easy solution is a gaming laptop. If you’re in the market for one, check out today’s…

Double the backup Why choose between offline and cloud storage schemes when you can have both? That’s essentially what Seagate proposes with its Backup Plus line of external USB 3.0 drive solutions, which now include 200GB of Microsoft OneDrive cloud storage for free. Seagate also announced a new 4TB option housed in a 20.5mm chassis,…

Go Platinum without breaking the bank EVGA is home to some of the best power supplies in the business, particularly its SuperNova P2 series. They’re all 80 Plus Platinum certified, which means they’re highly efficient, and backed by a generous 10-year warranty. Good stuff, except prior to today the series only consisted of 1000W, 1200W,…

Shame on Samsung It’s a given that pre-built PCs might come with bloatware installed, but one thing you don’t expect third-party software to do is disable Windows Update on the down low. Yet that’s exactly what Samsung is doing on some of the PCs it sells. Talk about a “WTF?” moment. Patrick Barker, a Microsoft…

Another one bites the dust The branded motherboard business isn’t finished shrinking, at least not according to supply chain makers in Taiwan chirping in Digitimes’ ear. They say that Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS) will no longer actively market its own-brand DIY motherboards, choosing instead to focus its efforts on ODM and OEM production. If you’ve…

In this corner, wearing the red shorts: Fury X We’ve known about Fiji for months: AMD’s latest and greatest GPU, with HBM (High Bandwidth Memory) capable of an impressive 512GB/s of memory bandwidth. Couple that with 4,096 shader units compared to the previous 2,816 in Hawaii’s 290X/390X, and on paper, we can expect some impressive…

This article was published in the January 2015 issue of Maximum PC. For more trusted reviews and feature stories, subscribe here. The strong pull of nostalgia in games Nostalgia is a sweet, sweet drug. It screws with our perceptions and judgment, but pays us back with a warm feeling and a sure sense that, once…

Windows 10’s new Start menu, what it comes with, and how to customize it One of the big beefs desktop consumers have with Windows 8 is the lack of a proper Start Button/Menu. Even Windows 8.1 doesn’t fully return the coveted feature back to its original taskbar seat. The thinking on Microsoft’s part during the…