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34 | MAXIMUMPC | SEP 08 | http://www.maximumpc.com Speaker manufacturers have all but abandoned the PC market when it comes to s ...

36 | MAXIMUMPC | SEP 08 | http://www.maximumpc.com We’ve come down pretty hard on Windows Vista over the last 18 months, but the ...

38 | MAXIMUMPC | SEP 08 | http://www.maximumpc.com When you spend as much time at a keyboard as we do, you need a plank that’s a ...

I n the end, all this hardware amounts to one hell of a fast machine. And not just in theory—as in, next year when such and such ...

44 | MAXIMUMPC | SEP 08 | http://www.maximumpc.com The fi rst cards to debut with ATI’s new RV770 GPU are the 4870 and the 4850, ...

http://www.maximumpc.com | SEP 08 | MAXIMUMPC | 45 O T here are but a few great underdog stories in any era, and to the list of ...

46 | MAXIMUMPC | SEP 08 | http://www.maximumpc.com ATI TO NVIDIA: YOU’RE OBSOLETE Under the Heat Spreader ATI is kissing the gia ...

48 | MAXIMUMPC | SEP 08 | http://www.maximumpc.com ATI TO NVIDIA: YOU’RE OBSOLETE TWICE AS NICE THE MEMORY There are two basic w ...

50 | MAXIMUMPC | SEP 08 | http://www.maximumpc.com ATI TO NVIDIA: YOU’RE OBSOLETE works on all hardware. If the two compa- nies ...

Maximum PC celebrates 10 years of pure PC power 54 |MAMAMAXIMXIMXIMXIMUUUUMMPPPCC|SEP 08 |www.maximumpc.com A Decade of Kick Ass ...

http://www.maximumpc.com|SEP 08 |MAMAMAXIMXIMXIMXIMUUUUMMPPPCC| 55 A Decade of Kick Ass moments in the magazine’s history, hear ...

10 Things We Got Right It’s nice to look back and see that we sometimes know what we’re talking about 1999 2001 2000 2002 Celero ...

10 Things We Got Wrong Yes, over the years we’ve made a few bad calls 2002 2003 2004 2005 Radeon 9700 Ushers in DirectX 9 progra ...

58 | MAXIMUMPC | SEP 08 | http://www.maximumpc.com 2006 2007 2008 2009 Apple embraces x86 (January 2006) EIC Will Smith tries li ...

Coming Next Decade Ten years from now, we might have fl ying cars, extraterrestrial allies, a woman president, even—and Maximum ...

I n one second, the nuclear fusion process taking place inside the sun produces enough energy to satisfy the needs of the earth’ ...

spectrum: Infrared light possesses very little energy but ultraviolet light contains a great deal of it. Most modern photovoltai ...

66 |MAMAMAXIMXIMXIMXIMUUUUMMPPPCC|SEP 08 |www.maximumpc.com R&D^ EXAMINING TECHNOLOGY AND PUTTING IT TO USE HOW TO We show y ...

http://www.maximumpc.com|SEP 08 |MAMAMAXIMXIMXIMXIMUUUUMMPPPCC| 67 INSTALLING AN XP SLIPSTREAM DISC Next, you’re presented with ...

R&D^ EXAMINING TECHNOLOGY AND PUTTING IT TO USE SETTING UP A VISTA SLIPSTREAM DISC Creating a Vista slipstream disc is much ...