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Best 30” Monitor Ever! Gateway’s new panel fi xes supersized LCDs’ fl aws Next-Gen Optical Grows Up The latest LG drive reads ev ...

54 Penryn Intel’s new 45nm architecture is here. We’ll take you on a guided tour. Introducing Maximum PC’s Mod Shop !InN?nNM Ed ...

MAXIMUMPC Quick Start AMD’s new videocard; RIAA wins infringement lawsuit .............. 08 Head2Head Traditional hard drive vs. ...

T he good news for AMD is that its new GPU is a much better graphics pro- cessor than the absurdly power-thirsty Radeon HD 2900X ...

B y now you’ve probably heard about Intel’s new QuickPath Interconnect, briefly known as the Common System Interface (CSI). Quic ...

Thomas L. McDonald has been covering games for 17 years. He is Editor-at-Large of Games Magazine. I ’ve been gaming on a jury-ri ...

12 MAXIMUMPC DECEMBER 2007 quick start THE BEGINNING OF THE MAGAZINE, WHERE ARTICLES ARE SMALL IPHONE OPEN TO THIRD PARTIES Afte ...

A new form of mobile storage was born when an engineer went running down a hallway while holding a hard drive and ran smack into ...

And the Winner Is... head 2 head TWO TECHNOLOGIES ENTER, ONE TECHNOLOGY LEAVES I t just doesn’t make sense to invest in a hybrid ...

watch dodogg MAXIMUM PC TAKES A BITE OUT OF BAD GEAR dog 20 QUAD-CORE PENTIUM 4? In January, I purchased $3,000 worth of PC part ...

watch dodogg MAXIMUM PC TAKES A BITE OUT OF BAD GEAR dog PQuad Core P4 PWolfKing Won’t Bunny Jump PCanon’s 12.1MP Pinhole Camera ...

THE GREATEST PC TECHNOLOGIES OF ALL TIME 22 MAXIMUMPC DECEMBER 2007 Over the years, these essential innovations have changed the ...

DECEMBER 2007 MAXIMUMPC 23 100 MICROSOFT SOLITAIRE (1 99 2) Laugh, but Microsoft’s own website has more than 1,400 pages devoted ...

100 GREATEST OF ALL TIME 24 MAXIMUMPC DECEMBER 2007 91 MICROSOFT FLIGHT SIMULATOR (1982) Pac-Man? Mario? Newbs. Versions of this ...

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100 GREATEST OF ALL TIME 30 MAXIMUMPC DECEMBER 2007 62 INTEL CORE 2 DUO (2006) Desktop or mobile, it’s the chip to beat in today ...

100 GREATEST OF ALL TIME 32 MAXIMUMPC DECEMBER 2007 53 WINDOWS 95 (1995) At last, PC users got true multitasking and a less hein ...

100 GREATEST OF ALL TIME 4 MAXIMUMPC DECEMBER 2007 44 NAPSTER (1999) Shawn Fanning made history in more ways than one with this ...

100 GREATEST OF ALL TIME  MAXIMUMPC DECEMBER 2007 34 PCI (1993) The PC had been saddled with the pokey ISA bus for more than a ...