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DECEMBER 2005 MA XIMUMPC 65 Select a Target Format DVD Copy 4 offers a number of swell exporting options, including automatic en ...

RAM FOLLIES I recently added more memory to my Dell Dimension 4600, which has a 2.8GHz Pentium 4, by replacing its two sticks of ...

drive. Should I plug this third drive into the SATA RAID 1 or SATA RAID 2 port? If I don’t use the RAID port for this third hard ...

H ard drive designers have relied on longitu- dinal recording techniques for more than half a century, and it has served them we ...

Hardware Autopsy the technique will enable a tenfold increase in drive capacities over the next fi ve to seven years: That trans ...

MINI PREVIEW LOCATIONFREE TV Sony jumps into the streaming audio-video game On the road, but desperate for your Desperate Housew ...

N o digital media player can satisfy everyone. Even the exqui- site iPod Nano is pissing off folks—justifiably—with a surface so ...

How We Test Real-world benchmarks. Real-world results DECEMBER 2005 MA XIMUMPC 77 BEST OF THE BEST High-end videocard: eVGA e-Ge ...

reviewsTESTED. REVIEWED. VERDICTIZED 78 MA XIMUMPC DECEMBER 2005 W ith prices for natural gas and home-heating oil spiraling out ...

reviewsTESTED. REVIEWED. VERDICTIZED XXXXXXX 2005 MA XIMUMPC 00 came to the film-cadence tests, ATI’s new card failed every test ...

reviewsTESTED. REVIEWED. VERDICTIZED  MA XIMUMPC DECEMBER 2005 D espite all the chest-beating about notebook computers replaci ...

I t’s a tough era for CD and DVD burners. Optical drives have pretty much hit the ceiling on read and write speeds (with the exc ...

A TI has launched a variety of bang-for-the-buck GPUs this year; the 16-pipe X800 XL and the eight-pipe X800 GT are particularly ...

DECEMBER 2005 MA XIMUMPC 85 TESTED. REVIEWED. VERDICTIZEDreviews H ybrid doesn’t always mean good. That’s what we realized after ...

I n the past we’ve been a smidge wary of aftermarket VGA coolers, but all that’s changed now that we’ve tested the royally badas ...

reviewsTESTED. REVIEWED. VERDICTIZED 88 MA XIMUMPC DECEMBER 2005 W e really like Microsoft’s concept of the Tablet PC. Whether w ...

reviewsTESTED. REVIEWED. VERDICTIZED 90 MA XIMUMPC DECEMBER 2005 L ogitech’s monopoly on the Agilent laser-powered optical-mouse ...

W e looked at a few studio monitors in 2005, but M-Audio’s Studiophile LX4 surround system is the first one we can enthusiastica ...

J ust when we thought CPU coolers couldn’t possibly get any larger, along comes the Tower 120. This sucker is absolutely massive ...

reviewsTESTED. REVIEWED. VERDICTIZED 93 MA XIMUMPC DECEMBER 2005 CMS ABSmini 40GB When a USB key just won’t cut it, it’s time to ...