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Microsoft’s Top-Se cret 3D Interface The All-New ‘Castle’ Networking Scheme Direct3D’s Shocking New Direction AND MUCH MORE! MIN ...

Release Notes OCTOBER 2004 MAXIMUMPC 5 Contents 10. I just built a Doom 3 gaming PC with two 36GB Western Digital Raptor drives ...

EDITORIAL George Jones EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Katherine Stevenson MANAGING EDITOR Gordon Mah Ung SENIOR EDITOR Will Smith TECHNICAL EDI ...

You write, we respond XXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXX In/Out WISE WORDS FROM THE SARGE DREAM MACHINE LETDOWN I’ve been reading your m ...

reason was: When it comes to sound quality, controls, and sheer sonic power, the Logitech Z-680 simply has no peer. Our write-up ...

14 MA XIMUMPC OCTOBER 2004 Verizon Rolls out 5Mbps Broadband A fiber optic–based broadband alternative may be coming soon to you ...

Introducing the AMD Sempron A-D replaces its aging Duron fleet With a neW set of CP5s (eres a BreakDoWn of the neW line of BuD ...

Quick Start Introducing Tablet PC 2005 Install Service Pack 2 on your Tablet PC, and you get more than a firewall and security u ...

Quick Start Tom McDonald has been covering games for countless magazines and newspapers for 11 years. He lives in the New Jersey ...

20 MA XIMUMPC OCTOBER 2004 The Pre-N Wireless Router allows 802.11b, 802.11g, and 802.11n networks to live in harmony, without c ...

THIS MONTH: Mobile Gaming Devices! TAPWAVE ZODIAC Head 2 Head A showdown among natural PC competitors I t’s ironic that even tho ...

NOKIA N-GAGE QD THE UPSHOT OCTOBER 2004 MA XIMUMPC  W hile the Zodiac2 scored more wins in the individual categories, we’re go ...

THIS MONTH: The WatchDog goes after... Who Is the Boss of Your OS? DEAR DOG: This happened a few years ago but I imagine it’s st ...

Microsoft >PayPal >Super MP3 Recorder/ SWReg.org THE DOG RESPONDS: You can never be too paranoid when it comes to provid ...

Everything L et’s get this out of the way right up front: The next version of Windows— code-named Longhorn—isn’t expected to shi ...

OCTOBER 2004 MA XIMUMPC 31 WINDOWS LONGHORN Everything Microsoft’s sequel to Windows XP could be the most revolutionary OS yet. ...

32 MA XIMUMPC OCTOBER 2004 T o date, we know of five major chang- es to Longhorn: a new, improved 3D user interface, a new datab ...

OCTOBER 2004 MA XIMUMPC 33 code can describe and enact both 2D ele- ments and 3D elements at the same time. One of the really ha ...

3 MA XIMUMPC OCTOBER 2004 Mac Designer Says: Death to the GUI! All this talk about introducing 3D into Windows and Linux horrif ...

OCTOBER 2004 MA XIMUMPC 3 ises to protect user data (your e-mail), corporate data (your company’s files), and com- mercial data ...