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Gift Guide fact they involve vacuuming. Such is the Roomba’s specialty. You select the room sizYou select the room size (small, ...

Gift Guide  MAXIMUMPC DECEMBER 2003 KiSS DP-500 DVD Player If anyone knows what’s hot for the holidays, it’s elves. And a rece ...

Gift Guide $500 $180 Targus 120-Watt Universal AC/DC AdapterTargus 120-Watt Universal AC/DC AdapterTargus 120-Watt Universal AC/ ...

$55 Digital Blue QX3+ Computer Microscope You needn’t be a pre-teen to appreciate the fun and wonder of the colorful QX3+ micros ...

IS MY ROUTER A FIREWALL? I have just installed a Linksys four-port router connected to my cable modem. The Linksys router model ...

however, speed ultimately depends on the spindle speed of the drive and the size and type of disk cache. Your motherboard’s BIOS ...

80 MAXIMUMPC DECEMBER 2003 YOUR ENTERTAINMENT PC QUESTIONS... ANSWERED! Last month’s story explaining how to build the ultimate ...

E ven though Windows XP is the best operating system Microsoft has ever shipped, it can still ben- efit from a bit of tweaking. ...

Switch Tasks a Whole New Way DECEMBER 2003 MAXIMUMPC 85 Pressing Alt + Tab is the quickest way to change between different windo ...

Speed Up the Interface Check for Signed Drivers 86 MAXIMUMPC DECEMBER 2003 If it were up to the programming wizards at Microsoft ...

How To 88 MAXIMUMPC DECEMBER 2003 Take Control of Windows Error Reporting Sure, it’s great to help Microsoft track down bugs ins ...

In the Lab A behind-the-scenes look at Maximum PC testing The New Benchmarks Are Here! The New Benchmarks Are Here! We proudly p ...

DECEMBER 2003 MAXIMUMPC 3 then converts the whole shebang into an MPEG2 file using the app’s built-in encod- er. Results are ti ...

frame rates when running on faster vid- eocards, as well. It’s likely that when Half Life 2 is released, we’ll dump either Jedi ...

In The Lab parallel ATA drive. While it would have been nice to outfit our test beds with the latest hard drive bus technology, ...

B ack in March 2002, we received our first system from Totally Awesome Computers. It was dubbed the SuperDell (in honor of Dell ...

and we didn’t experience even a whiff of instability throughout testing. Therein lies the rub. Although this box delivers “insan ...

L et’s get this out of the way. The Radeon 9800 XT is the fastest DirectX 9 videocard we’ve ever test- ed. The question isn’t ho ...

Fingerworks Touchstream LP A little too touchy-feely for our tastes T he Touchstream is essentially a keyboard - size touchpad t ...

LG Triple-Format DVD Burner DVD-RAM? No thank you, ma’am N ow that it’s been drummed into your head that the only DVD burners wo ...