MaximumPC 2004 04

Upgrading your CPU can be a fast and simple way to invigorate an aged sys- tem. The process is not difficult, but it is importan ...

32 MAXIMUMPC APRIL 2004 Start with the basic fast-boot tweaks. In the BIOS, disable “Floppy Drive Seek” and select the disk on w ...

If you sell your hard drive or give your PC away, it’s better to be safe than to end up paying for some ex-con’s summer in Cabo ...

34 MAXIMUMPC APRIL 2004 Take advantage of Rich Site Summary (RSS) to push the latest headlines and updates from your favorite we ...

3 MAXIMUMPC APRIL 2004 If you want a maintenance-free MP3 collection that sounds as good on your portable player as it does on ...

APRIL 2004 MAXIMUMPC 37 the box. Do not uncheck Secure mode— this is exactly what makes EAC special! Go to the EAC > Compress ...

38 MAXIMUMPC APRIL 2004 The F-Lock key on newer Microsoft and Logitech keyboards is, simply put, the bane of any hardware tweake ...

40 MAXIMUMPC APRIL 2004 A blowhole adds extra cooling to your PC in the same way that opening a window in your house cools it do ...

Inside Out How Google searches the world in two-tenths of a second                  Your search results appear! ...

T o our delight, it turns out Google’s original hardware comes from one of our favorite Silicon Valley institutions: Fry’s Elect ...

 MAXIMUMPC APRIL 2004 like news sites and blogs get crawled more often. This essentially means that the more frequently a page ...

APRIL 2004 MAXIMUMPC   Like tiny ants bringing food to their queen, thousands of Googlebots scour every corner of the web so ...

48 MAXIMUMPC APRIL 2004 sites suddenly added links to your web page, your PageRank score would change even though Google hasn’t ...

00 MAXIMUMPC XXXX 2004 Who makes the fastest laptop in the world? We tested more than 50 pounds of souped-up notebook fury to fi ...

è XXXXXXXXX 2004 MAXIMUMPC 00 èèèè W hen it comes to laptops, large displays are nice and keyboard ergonomics are splendid, but ...

Toshiba Satellite P25-S609 Short on gaming performance, a mobile Media Center makes this notebook versatile Living proof that si ...

APRIL 2004 MAXIMUMPC 55 ABS Mayhem G1 ABS presents a solid performer for a remarkably low price When we think of PC notebooks, w ...

 MAXIMUMPC APRIL 2004 Alienware Area 51M Don’t like your graphics card? Change it in five minutes with the Area 51M Hark, the ...

APRIL 2004 MAXIMUMPC  Dell XPS Shaped like a Mack truck, the XPS also hits like one. This laptop leaves the competition in the ...

58 MAXIMUMPC APRIL 2004 MAKE TOSHIBA SHARP ABS PC ALIENWARE DELL VOODOO Model Satellite P25-S609 Actius RD3D Mayhem G1 Area 51M ...