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At A Glance (+) Fresh: Accessible in File Explorer; DLNA certified; simple, easy-to-navigate interface. (-) Stale: No HDMI; limited to 32TB; a little pricey. Last week, we took a look at the QNAP TurboNAS TS-451 network attached storage appliance, one heck of an intelligent storage solution that packs four hard drive bays, an Intel Celeron…

The good, the bad, and the wrong predictions Way back in 2011, the old staff at Maximum PC predicted what Dream Machine 2015 would look like. Well, now that Dream Machine 2015 is officially here, we thought we would look back at our predictions to see how we did. Dream Machine 2015 teaser video You’ll…

The good, the bad, and the wrong predictions Way back in 2011, the old staff at Maximum PC predicted what Dream Machine 2015 would look like. Well, now that Dream Machine 2015 is officially here, we thought we would look back at our predictions to see how we did. Dream Machine 2015 teaser video You’ll…

Top Deal: Oh sure, you can turn off automatic app updates in the Home version of Windows 10, but those security updates are still forced. The problem with that, as we’ve seen, is that a bad update can ruin a user’s day. Are you willing to take that chance every time Microsoft pushes out a…

It’s a numbers game The folks at StatCounter have compiled some usage statistics for Windows 10 and, not surprisingly, it’s off to a faster start in its first month of availability than either Windows 8 or Windows 7. It’s not surprising because Microsoft virtually ensured a fast start by giving the OS away as a…

Pushing more capacity into tiny form factors Even though the mobile market is benefiting from increasingly capacious and lower cost solid state drive options, Seagate still sees a market for good old fashioned mechanical hard disk drives. As such, the company said it achieved a major milestone in areal density that allows it to offer…

Getting down to business Business users in need of cheap thrills may be interested in Lenovo’s latest offerings. Chief among them is the ThinkPad E Series consisting of 14-inch and 15.6-inch laptops for small and medium businesses (SMBs). Lenovo’s a little light on the fine grain details, though the world’s top supplier of PCs did…

The Politics of DX12 Last week, Oxide gave press early access to their pre-beta version of Ashes of the Singularity. If you’ve been hiding under a rock, here’s why this is important. So far, the only DX12 benchmarks anyone has been able to run have been synthetic in nature—the 3DMark API Overhead test pounds the…

Top Deal: It never hurts to have backups of your data in multiple places. The cloud is one option, and so is a secondary drive and/or NAS box. But why stop there? A portable drive offers yet another layer of protection against the unforeseen, plus it’s a convenient way to transfer large amounts of files…