MaximumPC 2003 12

INTEL vs. AMD vs. APPLE We Host the FINAL Showdown This magazine contains invaluable technical information on how to fi x and up ...

Release Notes Page 144 DECEMBER 2003 MAXIMUMPC 03 Contents 12. I ’m no fan of poetic goodbyes, so I’ll just come right out with ...

DECEMBER 2003 MAXIMUMPC 05 Contents EDITORIAL Jon Phillips EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Katherine Stevenson MANAGING EDITOR Gordon Mah Ung SE ...

You write, we respond NO, TOM, THIS DOESN’T GRANT YOU ANY TYPE OF SPIRITUAL “GET OUT OF JAIL FREE” CARD I just renewed my subscr ...

SIMMER DOWN, BOYS... I THINK WE CAN ALL AGREE THAT MR. FOREMAN HAS SUFFERED ENOUGH A note by Harold Forman in November’s In/Out ...

I hate to follow in the footsteps of a nitpicker like Harold Foreman, but I noticed in the “Have You Seen Our Missing Predicates ...

I t’s a strategy that’s done wonders for the sales of Corvettes, Michael Jordan Sneakers, and even Beanie Babies: If you can cre ...

Apple Debuts iTunes for Windows Can iTunes’ generous policies beat “free” music? Hello Kitty! You know the story. Napster came a ...

+FAST FORWARD BY^ TOM R. HALFHILL Like its namesake who was stranded on a lonely island, Transmeta’s Crusoe needs a rescue. Th ...

'!-E THEORY BY THOMAS L. McDONALD Tom -CDoNalD TurNs  Tom McDonald has been covering games for countless magazines and newspa ...

Head 2 Head A Showdown among natural PC competitors 20 MAXIMUMPC DECEMBER 2003 P DA buyers have never been faced with such a con ...

DECEMBER 2003 MAXIMUMPC  MICROSOFT WINDOWS MOBILE 2003 All the basics are covered and the fancy multimedia stuff works great t ...

WatchDog Maximum PC takes a bite out of bad gear 24 MAXIMUMPC DECEMBER 2003 Maximum PC takes a bite out of bad gear Say hello to ...

Consumer Advocate Got a bone to pick with a vendor? Been spiked by a fly-by-night operation? Sic The Dog on them by writing watc ...

W e’ve seen a lot of eager hardware come through the Maximum PC Lab this past year. Most components come in fresh-faced and smil ...

There’s simply no question about it: ATI’s newly minted Radeon 9800 XT is the finest videocard on the planet. But why, you ask, ...

30 MAXIMUMPC DECEMBER 2003 With tricks such as a full-speed, on-die memory controller, 1MB of cache, and forward-looking 64-bit ...

Leave it to Plextor to stand out in a crowd. In this case, it’s a very big crowd, indeed, as manufacturers have rushed to capita ...

32 MAXIMUMPC DECEMBER 2003 Take last year’s soundcard winner, the Sound Blaster Audigy 2, improve its signal-to-noise ratio, and ...

BIRDIES Once an all-Palm OS shop, the Maximum PC Lab now has four editors who’ve made the switch to Pocket PC—and HP’s decadent, ...