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Top Deal: In the old days of computing, you could have made an reasonable assumption about a PC’s performance based on the size of the system. These days? Throw your assumptions right out the window. Palm sized computing is a thing, and surprisingly enough, you can squeeze a fair bit of performance into a tiny…
Some things are black and white As Intel’s Skylake launch looms ever closer, we’re seeing more and more Z170 chipset motherboards on the web. Features and performance will ultimate decide which ones are worth a damn, but as an added bonus, several of the boards we’ve seen so far definitely bring the bling. Just last…
We’re closing in on the Windows 10 launch Unnamed “sources” close to the development of Windows 10 are reporting that the highly anticipated operating system has gone RTM, and will likely be officially announced by the end of the week. Windows 10 was expected to go RTM last Friday, which still didn’t give OEMs enough…
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Microsoft isn’t waving the white flag With a paltry 3 percent of the smartphone market, Microsoft might be forgiven if it conceded defeat to Android and iOS. And for a minute, it seemed like it might — there were rumors that Microsoft would switch up its mobile strategy by abandoning Windows Phone handsets and partnering…
Broadband for all We tend to freak out as if the world is ending when our Internet service goes down. However, among homes that bring in less than $30,000 per year, more than a quarter — 26 percent — don’t have Internet access, compared to 3 percent of adults who make over $75,000. Google is…
This article was published in the April 2015 issue of Maximum PC. For more trusted reviews and feature stories, subscribe here. Adding dimensions to evolving (and shrinking) chip technology Three-dimensional flash memory is the latest chip technology that’s truly revolutionary and Samsung is leading the way with its 3D-NAND flash-memory cells in 500GB SSDs. Multiterabyte…
A Commodore for the modern era As I explained before, my roots in computing date back to the Commodore 64, which is generally recognized as the best selling PC of all time. Like many thirty-somethings and over, I cut my computing teeth on that system and get a sense of nostalgia any time I see…
Microsoft Insider boss Gabe Aul stated on Monday that the company will be suspending releases of Windows 10 Technical Preview for a brief period. The company wants to move deployment into the production channels, the same channels that will provide updates to PCs with the retail copy. “Starting tomorrow, we will also not be delivering…
Mozilla suspends Adobe Flash support in Firefox Mozilla announced on Monday that it has blocked all versions of the Adobe Flash plugin in Firefox, even the most recent version of the plugin, 18.0.0.203. Mozilla’s Mark Schmidt added via Twitter that the plugin will remain blocked until Adobe releases a version of Flash that’s not “actively…