MaximumPC 2008 08
Dell XPS M1530 Stacked and packed, Dell’s notebook is far better than the MBP—in some ways We wondered if Dell was making a pass ...
I n many ways, Dell’s XPS M1530 is the better notebook of the two. Its screen is better by a country mile in photo ren- dering, ...
OS X: The Good, the Bad & the Ugly PERFORMANCE ON OS X IS PRETTY DARN GOOD... The biggest difference between an Apple notebo ...
A BROWSER ODYSSEY FIREFOX 3 : L et us lay out a hypothetical situation for you: You’ve been driving that lumbering old Crown Vic ...
http://www.maximumpc.com | AUG 08 | MAXIMUMPC | 47 a browser odyssey firefox 3 : illUstrAtion by AdAm benton ...
Feature by Feature Firefox 3 is packed with improvements, but here’s what we’re most excited about! SECURITY By now we’re all fa ...
50 | MAXIMUMPC | AUG 08 | http://www.maximumpc.com Previous versions of Firefox have drawn criticism for inef- fi cient memory u ...
Breaking in the New Browser You’re not a power user if you’re using Firefox 3 as-is. Here are some tweaks to get you started BOO ...
THREE MUST-HAVE EXTENSIONS Add-ons, also known as Extensions, are what set Firefox apart from the crowd—be it the stuffy inflexi ...
54 | MAXIMUMPC | AUG 08 | http://www.maximumpc.com UNVEILED: NVIDIA’S NEXT-GEN GPU WE LAY HANDS ON THE SMOKIN’-FAST GEFORCE GTX ...
The Details Disclosed The whole truth and nothing but the truth (as far as we know it) BY MICHAEL BROWN http://www.maximumpc.com ...
You’re Staring at 1.4 Billion Transistors You could fit nearly six Penryns onto a single GeForce GTX 280 die, although a portion ...
WE WERE DISAPPOINTED–BUT NOT SURPRISED–TO LEARN THAT NVIDIA WAS INTERESTED ONLY IN THE PHYSX SOFTWARE. 58 | MAXIMUMPC | AUG 08 | ...
Few things piss us off as readily as new architecture that off ers only incremental improvements in performance. Fortunate- ly f ...
62 |MAMAMAXIMXIMXIMXIMUUUUMMPPPCC|AUG 08 |www.maximumpc.com WHITE PAPER R&D^ EXAMINING TECHNOLOGY AND PUTTING IT TO USE How ...
larly, you can build CPUs that have GPU-like characteristics.” That said, ray tracing slightly favors current CPUs because those ...
64 |MAMAMAXIMXIMXIMXIMUUUUMMPPPCC|AUG 08 |www.maximumpc.com R&D^ EXAMINING TECHNOLOGY AND PUTTING IT TO USE HOW TO Join the ...
8DCC:8I>C<I=:HDJC9 We’re using Behringer’s MXB1002 mixing board for our setup, but feel free to select any mixing board ...
R&D^ EXAMINING TECHNOLOGY AND PUTTING IT TO USE ROCKIN’ THE BOARDS Each channel on a mixer comes with a number of inputs—in ...
To Affinity and Beyond! I just completed a minor upgrade to my system, including the addition of a brand-spankin’-new Intel Core ...
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