Maximum PC Magazine is the ultimate upgrade for savvy PC owners. Written for the home PC user, Maximum PC is packed with breaking news, interviews with industry leaders, tips and techniques, in-depth reviews, and more.

Maximum PC is the ultimate upgrade for savvy PC owners. Every issue is packed with breaking news, tons of tips & techniques, and the most in-depth reviews anywhere.

Designed for the rabid PC hobbyist, Maximum PC brings tons of news and reviews written in an irreverent, edgy style. Full disclosure is the modus operandi here, and there's an almost overwhelming amount of tech specs and features for each product that's discussed, tweaked, stretched, shaken, and stirred.

Whether you want to upgrade your CPU or compare the newest motherboards and graphics cards, Maximum PC is a great resource for all your PC computing needs. --Michael Lewis (From amazon.com)

Each issue of Maximum PC features:

• Brutally honest product reviews
• Hard-hitting editorials
• Tips to blast your machine’s performance
• Insightful and innovative How-To’s
• A CD loaded with new software, utility and game demos

Visit Maximum PC Magazine, August 2008 Download Page

FEATURES
22 PC vs. Mac
Can PC notebooks beat Apple’s glossy laptops across three different categories? We find out!
46 Firefox 3: Exposed
Use our list of tips, tweaks, and tricks to become a Firefox 3 power user!
54 GeForce GTX 280
We take the first look at Nvidia’s smokin’ new GPU. Here’s a spoiler: It’s fast. Real fast.

Download Maximum PC Magazine, August 2008

PDF format, 5.2MB, 57Pages.

ED WORD
Waiting for a Windows Renaissance

I’ve written about Apple’s OS X many times before, and it’s no secret that I’ve long been impressed with Apple’s operating systems. This month, I reviewed the Mac-Book Air, which gave me the opportunity to spend some quality time with Apple’s latest OS, Leopard, and I had an epiphany: Windows users are in the same exact position that Mac users were in 1999.

Think back to the turn of the century. Windows 2000 was fresh and new. Power users were basking in the glow of a fully 32-bit operating system that supported power-user tasks, playing games, and listening to MP3s. It was a golden age for Windows users, with the promise of an even better version of Windows on the horizon.

On the other side of the personal-computing fence, Apple folk were either struggling with the laughably antiquated Mac OS 9 or dealing with the not-ready-for-prime-time first release of OS X, which lacked crucial features like a 2D-accelerated desktop and native versions of popular apps.

If you bought a Mac in early 2000, you had to choose between the old and busted OS 9 or the new but premature OS X. ...

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