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At a glance X2 (+) Good value; quiet; decent battery life. X-Men: The Last Stand (-) No integrated USB type-A port; performance not great; kickstand solution needs work. For those that want a Surface Pro, but can’t afford one Now that Microsoft’s Surface Pro line of computers is catching some hype, HP is jumping on…
If you think of archaeology in pop culture, two big names come to mind: Indiana Jones and Lara Croft. If someone were to make a game about archaeology—real archaeology—it would be boring as hell. There’d be a lot of reading, fundraising, and cataloging tiny bits of pottery called sherds that often measure around a centimeter…
Synology has released a new NAS server aimed at the small office and home user, the DiskStation DS216+. This backup solution offers on-the-fly H.264 4K to 1080p video transcoding for video streaming, two drive bays for up to 16TB of storage, and the intuitive DiskStation Manager (DSM) interface that should make data management a breeze…
Unnamed sources have informed the New York Post that Amazon has set out to create a full-blown streaming music subscription service to take on Apple Music and Spotify. Rumor has it that the plan is in an early stage, but that the company has been conversing with music publishers over the last several weeks to…
Top Deal: The advent of the Internet could have killed off the printer, but as it turns out, dead tree copies of receipts, school papers, and everything else are still in demand, and so is the printer. That will probably be the case for a long time to come, and if you’re need of a…
Binge On lives up to its name T-Mobile ruffled a few feathers when it introduced Binge On, a controversial streaming service that allows customers to watch an unlimited amount of video from participating providers without it counting against their data caps. It’s controversial because critics claim it’s a net neutrality violation, while T-Mobile CEO John…
Money talks Google on Wednesday revealed that it’s shipped over 5 million of its Cardboard VR headsets since launching a year and a half ago, and there might be a lesson there. The fact that over 5 million people are willing to slap a cardboard contraption on their mug is telling. A virtual reality optimist…
A more secure web Try to hold back your tears, but the Java browser plugin that’s plagued the web with security holes is not long for this world; Oracle plans to snuff it out with the release of JDK 9, the company announced. Consider the move the equivalent of Oracle throwing in the towel, and…
This article was published in the Holiday 2015 issue of Maximum PC. For more trusted reviews and feature stories, subscribe here. Assembling the cage Most of the time, our builds end up in PC cases that encloses the guts on all six sides. Even if there is a side panel window, five out of six…