This article was published in two installments, in the July and August 2015 issues of Maximum PC. For more trusted reviews and feature stories, subscribe here. Modified Creative Commons image by McKay Savage Real or perceived shortcomings in software offerings keep too many users away from the free OS Dual-booting Windows and Linux really sucks….
What the numbers really mean There are a few things in life that are constant: death, taxes, and hardware upgrades. Every time we experience a major shift in graphics fidelity, there’s a requisite purchase of new hardware to keep up. Having now finished off the recent launches of Nvidia’s GTX 980 Ti and AMD’s Fury…
Top Deal: Whoa there playa, take that sucker out of your cart. Yes, we’re talking about that 1500W power supply. Why? Well, are you planning to power your neighborhood? Oh, you’re just preparing for Skylake — we can dig it, but we can also see that single graphics card in your cart, and unless you’re…
Another board for Skylake-S As we’ve already seen, Gigabyte is prepared for Intel’s Skylake launch (presumably in just a couple of weeks) with a handful of motherboards already. In addition to the ones already shown, you can add the Z170X SOC Force to the growing list. WCCFTech discovered a bunch of pictures of the board…
Putting the foundation in place Exciting things are happening as we get closer to the launch of Windows 10. Just last week, Microsoft announced that all Xbox One owners could stream games from their Xbox One console to their Windows 10 PC, a feature that was first made available to Xbox One Preview participants a…
Surface rises up Microsoft posted a record $3.2 billion loss on revenues of $22.2 billion for the quarter ended June 30, 2015, though there’s more to the story than that. Typically a company would be in big trouble if it was losing billions of dollars per quarter, but in this case, the results are indicative…
Hello fellow PlayStation fans. I’ve been playing tower defense games for a long time, starting from the early days when they were popular as Warcraft and Starcraft mods, then as Flash games, and lately on mobile devices. What I love about them is that they are easy to pick up and play but can be…
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Top Deal: When it was clear that LCD monitors had won the war against CRTs, there was a battle cry among photo editors and color conscious users — “Give us IPS panels, or give us death!” Seems like a pretty hardcore stance to take against TN panels, but you can quote us, this is real…