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

Download Maximum PC Magazine, June 2008

PDF format, 6MB, 57Pages.

FEATURES:
22 OEM Upgrades
Don’t throw away that old, gray box just yet! We show you how to extend the life of your OEM rig
36 Home Automation
How to control just about anything in your home from just about anywhere
56 Defrag Challenge
Are third-party defraggers better than Vista’s built-in program? We put them to the test

Visit Maximum PC Magazine, June 2008 Download Page

ED WORD
Welcome to the New Maximum PC!

Whew! It’s been a long few months, but I’d like to introduce everyone to the new, redesigned Maximum PC! It seems like just yesterday that I was telling you about the last Maximum PC redesign, but it’s actually been nearly three years. A lot has changed in that period, and it’s important that Maximum PC change with the times. Wait! Before you start writing angry letters, you should know that we haven’t changed the Maximum PC content you know and love, not one iota. We’ve just given the old girl a fresh coat of paint. I wouldn’t dream of changing an editorial formula that’s been so successful for almost 10 years.

What have we done to your magazine? The first thing you’ll probably notice is our brand-new section, The List. I’ve been a big fan of lists ever since I first saw Late Night with David Letterman. After consulting our attorneys, I discovered that there was absolutely no reason we couldn’t have a similar section in Maximum PC, and thus was born The List. Seriously though, we’ve got a killer umm... list of lists lined up, so make sure you check out the section every month. You’ll either laugh or cry, I promise.

I also want to introduce our new columnist. Joining Tom Halfhill and Thomas McDonald is Quinn Norton, who’s very excited to talk to you. Quinn comes to us from Wired News, and she’s going to cover everything from the battle against digital-rights management and crazy copyright legislation to the birth of extra-national data havens. Quinn’s got the digital freedom beat covered, and I’m thrilled to have her aboard.

You’ll also notice boatloads of less obvious changes as you flip through the redesigned mag. Font nerds will have already seen that we’ve switched most of the text in the magazine to a serif font to greatly increase readability, even at smaller font sizes. We’ve also isolated and removed many of the typesetting problems that caused us serious legibility problems in the past—hopefully, you guys can stop writing those angry letters too. We’ve renamed and revamped our Head2Head and In the Lab sections, too. Best of the Best is taking a brief sabbatical, but it will be back in a new form and better than ever in a few months.

So what do you think? Are you nervous? Scared? Slightly turned on? Either way, I’d love to hear your opinion about our new design. Study the mag, check out the changes, and shoot me an email or fi ll out our survey at http://maximumpc.com/designsurvey for a chance to win a $250 Best Buy gift certifi cate.

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