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Maximum PC is the magazine that every computer geek, PC gamer, or content creator should read every month. Get Maximum PC digital magazine subscription today for punishing product reviews, thorough how-to articles, and the illuminating technical news and information that PC power users crave. Maximum PC covers every single topic that requires a lightning-fast PC, from video editing and music creation to PC gaming; we write about it all with unbounded enthusiasm for our collective hobby.

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A TALE OF TWO SYSTEMS

Intel’s ambitious investment plans • Team Blue is back with a bang

BYE-BYE BALLISTIX • NO MORE ENTHUSIAST MODULES FROM CRUCIAL

NO ACCOUNT, NO WINDOWS PRO • Microsoft to insist on authentication

Tech Triumphs and Tragedies • A monthly snapshot of what’s good and bad in tech

DUFF MEMORY INCREASES PRICES • Contamination hits fabs, production binned

NEW BUDGET RTX CARDS • Nvidia follows AMD to 4GB

Is HoloLens 3 dead?

Monster board, monster price

AMD bigger than Intel, briefly

Big Fish Intel Enters the Mining Pool • PERHAPS A SIGN of the coming cryptapocalypse, Intel recently disclosed that it has been testing the waters for mining ASICs for years. It also revealed its first-generation BMZ1, codenamed Bonanza Mining, and looked ahead to BMZ2, its second-generation chip that will be manufactured on a cutting-edge node rather than the 14nm process used for BMZ1. Most surprisingly, it was noted that BMZ1 was created as a ‘product exploration’ in 2018.

THE LIST • THE TOP FIVE TKL GAMING KEYBOARDS

18 months of awesomeness • NOT LONG AGO, it was fashionable to write snarky, knowing obituaries to the PC. Tiring, redundant, past its best… the personal computer’s fate was assumed to be death by a million tiny cuts. The culprits? Smartphones, tablets, thin clients, you name it, anything that’s not actually a PC. I mean, who wants to TikChat their Facegram flunkies on a clunky old beige box?

DOCTOR • THIS MONTH THE DOCTOR TACKLES…

$1300 12TH GEN DELIGHT • What can we get from Intel’s 12th-gen mid-range chip?

12TH-GEN DELIGHT BUILD • Can this 12th-gen rig power you to 1080p gaming joy?

RISE OF THE CHROMEBOOK • Are Chromebooks the revolution the laptop space needs or will Windows emerge triumphant? Christian Guyton explores

Asus Chromebook Flip CX5

Lenovo 500e Chromebook

Acer Chromebook Spin 513

HP Pavilion 15

Acer Swift X

MSI Summit E13 Flip Evo

CONCLUSION

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GETTING CONNECTED • Before there was the internet, there was the ARPANET. Ian Evenden speaks to some of those who were there, and discovers how they set about building something that had barely been imagined

THE RUSSIAN NETWORK

WHAT HAS DARPA EVER DONE FOR US?

Steam Deck

FOREVER FRENEMIES • The PC and Mac have been rivals for nearly 40 years, yet the Mac has never had the measure of the PC. Could the arrival of Apple silicon finally give the Mac the edge? Jeremy Laird investigates…

SIRI vs. CORTANA

WINDOWS AND ANDROID GET IT ON

THE TOMORROW WAR

HOW TO • STEP-BY-STEP GUIDES TO IMPROVING YOUR PC

LATE TO THE PARTY

The key stage: Add notes in FL Studio 20

FL STUDIO SOUNDS

Machine of the Month: SAM Coupé (1989)

AI-powered Image Editing

THE LUMINAR NEO INTERFACE GUIDE

VIEWS TO A THRILL

FILE HANDLING

Frankenbuild! Turn Old Into New • It’s alive! Raiding the Maximum PC stock room

Gaming laptops DON’T suck • A riposte to Jeremy Laird’s recent column

CHRISTIAN GUYTON

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