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WI-FI WONDERS! MIMO routers deliver extra range & near-wired speed MINIMUM BS • APRIL 200 6 DUAL-CORE LAPTOP! Dell’s power p ...

22 It’sTime to Cross the Final Frontier !IHt?HtM Ed Word Please send feedback and Turkish Delight to [email protected]. I ’ve b ...

MA XIMUMPC Quick Start Will heat concerns lead to a socketed GPU? ........................ 8 Head2Head Two virtual surround-soun ...

J ust as New Yorkers fl ee to Florida to escape the harsh winters, rumor has it that today’s GPU might one day migrate to a moth ...

Small Formfactor—Big Performance Falcon Northwest and Monarch Computer launch SFF rigs with dual graphics cards. That’s what we ...

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 APRIL 2006 S eagate has announced the first ha ...

T he biggest problem with surround-sound systems is that they require wires to drive the surround channels. And if you don’t wan ...

And the Winner Is... PRICE/PERFORMANCE RATIO A digital audio projector accomplishes its magic using a powerful DSP chip and an a ...

watch dodogg MAXIMUM PC TAKES A BITE OUT OF BAD GEAR 20 SONY BMG SETTLES ROOTKIT SUIT Sony BMG has agreed to settle a class-acti ...

watch dodogg MAXIMUM PC TAKES A BITE OUT OF BAD GEAR mance cost, and some drivers might fail with the physical address extension ...

R emember the good old days? You bought a CD at your local music store, came home, and listened to it on your PC. Then you rippe ...

you just bought? Don’t even think about copying it to your laptop—unless you want to risk 10 years at Leavenworth with Romper St ...

COPY MOVIES & MUSIC Digital Media Q&A WHY DO I NEED THIS GUIDE? Whether you have kids who like to watch The Little Merma ...

+ids and optical discs don’t miX. &or that matter, neither do adults and optical discs. %ver since we left a folder full of ...

Copying DVDs is great, but we love to re-encode our DVDs, using much better compression so they’re suitable for playback on comp ...

APRIL 2006 MAMAMAXIMXIMXIMXIMUUUUMMPPPCC 29 WHAT YOU’LL NEED A DVD you want to rip DVD Copy 4 Gold ($50, http://www.intervideo.c ...

COPY COPY MOVIES & MUSIC 30 MAMAMAXIMXIMXIMXIMUUUUMMPPPCC APRIL 2006 Do you listen to audio CDs in your CD-ROM drive, or car ...

COPY COPY MOVIES & MUSIC Because the CD-ROM was designed more than 20 years ago, when encrypting the contents of a 700MB dis ...

Nothing inspires unbridled rage like purchasing music from an online service, and then discovering you can’t play the fi les on ...