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V udu delivers more HD content than any other service, but achieving that image quality requires you to purchase a $300 box that ...

I t turns out that Microsoft’s Xbox 360 is good for more than just playing games and streaming the occasional transcod- ed video ...

T his roundup is a study in compro- mises. All these services are superior to what the typical cable company has to offer—with C ...

42 MAXIMUMPC | MAY 08 | http://www.maximumpc.com PHOTOGRAPHY: SAMANTHA BERG HAND MODEL: ALDO ...

http://www.maximumpc.com | MAY 08 | MAXIMUMPC 43 I n the November 2007 issue, we took an in-depth look at RAID—short for redunda ...

OUR TESTING METHODS Every aspect of our experiment had to be considered in order to ensure meaningful results MEET THE TEST SUBJ ...

46 MAXIMUMPC | MAY 08 | http://www.maximumpc.com HOST-BASED HighPoint RocketRAID 2300 HighPoint’s entry-level RAID controller ca ...

DISCRETE AMCC 3ware 9650SE-4LPML The 9650SE-4LPML represents AMCC’s entry-level RAID con- troller. It runs off a PCI Express x4 ...

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http://www.maximumpc.com | MAY 08 | MAXIMUMPC 51 FINAL ANALYSIS You have all the data, but we’re taking it one step further: Her ...

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56 MAXIMUMPC | MAY 08 | http://www.maximumpc.com SOFTY AWARDS Ripping DVDs used to be a major hassle. It took ages and required ...

58 MAXIMUMPC | MAY 08 | http://www.maximumpc.com SOFTY AWARDS VMware workstation rocks due to its ability to let you run multipl ...

60 MAXIMUMPC | MAY 08 | http://www.maximumpc.com SOFTY AWARDS Don’t confuse our Lifetime Achievement Award with those of other a ...

The free vLite application will help you save time—and gigabytes—by cutting the bloat from your Vista installation process VLite ...

2 Choose a Task In vLite’s Tasks tab you can select or deselect the parts of your install process you would like to customize: • ...

The Components dialog can be tricky. Unlike the Compatibility dialog, the Components dialog is used to remove components in part ...

how 2 IMPROVING YOUR PC EXPERIENCE, ONE STEP AT A TIME MISSING REGISTRY OPTIONS In your magazine’s March issue, there is a Windo ...

Ask the Doctor X Diagnosing and curing your PC problems X X G RIGHT MORE MEMORY? I’m a computer guy and have gotten a lot of que ...