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PC PC minimum bs • october 2008 cheap gaming laptop! can gateway’s $1,400 rig do the job? budget price. big performance ati ’s r ...

Each issue of Maximum PC features:
Brutally honest product reviews
Hard-hitting editorials
Tips to blast your machine’s pe ...

october 28 Embracing Vista With the release of SP1, is it finally time for power users to make the switch to Vista? 42 A Splash ...

http://www.maximumpc.com | oct 08 | MAXIMUMPC | 09 I just returned from a special theater screening of War Games—quite possibly ...

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&-q MAXIMUMPC | oct 08 | http://www.maximumpc.com deathmatch Asus XonAr DX $90, http://www.asus.com rounD 2 price Price isn’ ...

http://www.maximumpc.com | oct 08 | MAXIMUMPC |&. deathmatch And the Winner Is... T he X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty is the winner ...

Blame It on Canada Dog, two months ago I ordered a SumoSac from Sumolounge. com. It’s basically a giant foam-filled beanbag chai ...

As well, please remem- ber that you will not exploit any bug or system in the Service or in any EA product to gain unfair advant ...

Shattered Dreams & Broken Promises 28 q MAXIMUMPC | oct 08 | http://www.maximumpc.com ...

Shattered Dreams & Broken Promises We sat down with Microsoft to hear the company’s side of the Vista story. What lessons ha ...

InstabIlIty At launch, we complained that Vista was significantly less stable than its predecessor. We experienced more hard loc ...

http://www.maximumpc.com | oct 08 | MAXIMUMPC | 31 Vista was supposed to mark the launch of a new revolution in Pc gaming, spear ...

vista (^) revisited 32 q MAXIMUMPC | oct 08 | http://www.maximumpc.com The Benchmarks We take a quantitative look at Vista and X ...

vista (^) revisited Microsoft Concedes Vista Launch Problems Abandoning the pretense that Vista is the perfect OS, Microsoft rep ...

vista (^) revisited Stability According to now-public internal Microsoft memos, 18 percent of all Vista crashes reported during ...