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)

In the January 2008 issue, you can find:

    * 100 Greatest PC Innovations
    * Best of the Best 2007
    * Penryn Preview
    * Best 30" Monitor Ever!
    * And 17 More Awesome Product Reviews!
    * Ask the Doctor
    * Rig of the Month
    * The Watchdog
    * And a whole lot more!

THE GREATEST 100 PC TECHNOLOGIES OF ALL TIME
Over the years, these essential innovations have changed the way we use our PCs
BY THE MAXIMUM PC STAFF

Sure, we love iPods, TiVo, and fancy-schmancy digital cameras, just like everyone else. But let’s talk about advances that make a difference where it really counts: in the PC.

While myriad best-of lists have ranked the greatest gadgets, software products, and videogames ever made, here we turn our attention to advances that have impacted the development, enjoyment, and raw power of the personal computer.

Our staff-generated list looks at not just critical machines to come down the pike (#55), but also essential CPUs (#51), operating systems (#15), components (#18), and peripherals (#94), as well as the occasional piece of software (#74) and videogame (#9) that pushed PCs into new territory.

The result is an exhaustive look at the PC from its birth (#7)—and even its conception (#73)—to today (#71), piece by piece. Naturally, the list is skewed toward performance and gaming-oriented technologies. We respect WordStar as much as any high-tech historian, but you try typing a corporate memo when you’ve got a freakin’ Shub-Niggurath (#6) bearing down on your ass.

So join us on a stroll through PC history and tip your hat to the technologies large and small that have either endured for decades or changed the game completely. As always, we anxiously await your complaints over what we forgot. ...

Download Maximum PC Magazine, December 2007

Pdf format, 8mb, 59pages.

ED WORD
Introducing Maximum PC’s Mod Shop

I’m taking a month off from my usual Vista grousing to share news about a special project we’ve been working on—Maximum PC’s Mod Shop (www.modshop.net). Whether you’re a hardcore modder, a modding wannabe, or just someone who wants to learn more about the industrial arts of PC upgrading, The Mod Shop must become a regular pit stop during your travels through the Internets.

In simple terms, The Mod Shop gives custom rig builders and PC upgraders a big, bold, easy-to-use platform for showing off their projects. In The Mod Shop’s pantheon of greatness you’ll fi nd amazingly detailed PC tributes to games, movies, and comicbook characters. You’ll fi nd paint jobs that belong in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. You’ll fi nd cooling schemes that will leave you awestruck and make you think about science. You can fi nd them all at The Mod Shop, and you can even vote on your favorite projects as they battle rig-to-rig for serious cash prizes.

As regular readers know, Maximum PC has supported the modding community with frequent feature stories and our monthly Rig of the Month contest ever since the dawn of the PC modding scene. The artisans who create these rigs put in an incredible amount of work, and we love showing off their ingenuity and craftsmanship. Unfortunately, with just one page for Rig of the Month, we can never highlight as many machines as we’d like— thus The Mod Shop.

At The Mod Shop, anyone can post a rig profi le, which can include pictures, a complete description, and even a work log to chronicle your step-by-step building process. As I write this, The Mod Shop is teeming with the work of expert modders, but it’s also a place for all PC enthusiasts to post rig profi les—you don’t have to be an egghead to represent! So please poke around the site and check out other people’s rigs (you may even fi nd some editors’ rigs and Dream Machines in there!).

Besides posting a rig profi le, we encourage you to actively engage in the site battles, which are the secret sauce of the site. Each month, we take the best rigs and pit them against each other in a series of head-to-head battles to determine the ultimate winner. The best part? You decide the winner of each and every battle by voting for your favorite rig. We’ve got more than $3,000 in cash and prizes to give away each month, and you decide who reigns supreme.

We’ve spent the last few months building the site; please check it out and let us know what you think.

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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.

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