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Get More from Dual-Core Solve your dual-core woes & boost performance with our expert guide MINIMUM BS • JUNE 200 6 $500 Fla ...

Getting the Vista Vibe Contents Ed Word Please send feedback and lemon curd to [email protected]. JUNE 2006 MA XIMUMPC 5 O ver ...

MA XIMUMPC FUTURE US, INC 4000 Shoreline Court, Suite 400, South San Francisco, CA 94080 http://www.futureus-inc.com PRESIDENT J ...

P hysics acceleration was the hot topic at this year’s Game Developers Conference. Intel and AMD were talking up the idea of run ...

B ig brains or fast feet? Those are the two broad choices for CPU architects. Some processors achieve high performance by using ...

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

quick start THE BEGINNING OF THE MAGAZINE, WHERE ARTICLES ARE SMALL 12 MA XIMUMPC JUNE 2006 A class-action lawsuit has been fi l ...

B ack in the day, we liked toting around a full-fledged PDA—it was like having a lightweight computer in our pocket. But the ben ...

And the Winner Is... BATTERY LIFE AND SCREEN Surprisingly, we didn’t have any com- plaints with either device’s battery life— at ...

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24 MA XIMUMPC JUNE 2006 VISTA’S The next version of Windows promises to stress every component in your PC. Is your rig ready to ...

JUNE 2006 MA XIMUMPC 25 By now, you’ve already heard that Microsoft has delayed Vista yet again, this time until early 2007. Aft ...

User Interface and Usability Changes The fi rst thing you’ll notice when you fi re up Vista is the new user interface (UI), but ...

Behind-the-Scenes Changes To make the new operating system more reliable and perform better, Microsoft has rewritten large porti ...

30 MAMAMAXIMXIMXIMXIMUUUUMMPPPCC JUNE 2006 In addition to a fancy new interface that lets you see exactly how your computer is c ...

Vista’s New Apps With new versions of Windows come all-new applications. Here’s a look at the freebie apps Microsoft is includin ...

We’ve all experienced it: Your once light- ning-fast PC’s performance degrades over a period of months until it’s slower than mo ...

We’ve all experienced it: Your once light- ning-fast PC’s performance degrades over a period of months until it’s slower than mo ...

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