3 of 3 customers found the following review helpful:
 Maximum PC -- No CD!?, 2004-09-11
The magazine itself offers a lot of information on different computer components, product reviews, various how-to guides and other helpful information. The CD usually contains a game demo, freeware apps, and sometimes hardware driver updates. Yes, it is slightly biased toward gamers, but is still a very good magazine for non-gamers. I wish I'd read a couple of issues before I bought my PC. I recommend you subscribe elsewhere so you can get the CD with it.
4 of 4 customers found the following review helpful:
More than just a PC magazine...its a PC Guide, 2004-04-27
I won't repeat what others already said. Instead let me add that this is the only magazine that I don't throw out. Each issue has a "How to..." guide. It can be anything from "Windows XP Secret Tools" to "How to overclock your PC." As I get each issue, I save it and build my own library of guides. If I ever need to know how to do something, I just go back to my Maximum PC library and select the issue that covers that topic.Also each issue has a section where the PC techies take a new product and test it under hazardous conditions to see whether it survives or not. 3 issues ago, techies took 4 USB "keychain" drives and tested them in 4 ways: Dropped them from a 5-story building, put each one in a block of ice, in a clothes drier and put each one under the tires of a semi-truck. At the end, they let you know which usb drive survived and which didn't. This magazine covers much, much more. However, I do not want to repeat other reviewers. Great magazine!
2 of 18 customers found the following review helpful:
 A PURE SHOPPING CATALOG FOR GAMERS, 2004-03-29
I'm disappointed with this magazine. As the title of this review suggests, this magazine is geared more towards gaming and gamers. In addition, the general pc articles were not very informative.
2 of 30 customers found the following review helpful:
 More like half and half PC and BS., 2004-03-09
Maximum PC's slogan is Maximum PC. Minimum BS. Well I think they should make that, Half PC. Half BS. If you buy your subscription on here, you're not getting the CD, which is obviously, the whole essence of the mag. The CD is done just like PC Gamer, but it just has Maximum PC on there, instead of PC Gamer, and this also means, if your PCG CD's won't auto-load, neither will the MPC ones. Since I can't see what the price is for the subscription on here, I cant tell if you're paying the same amount on here for the no CD sub, as you would with the CD. CD sub. price is $29.95. You can obviously look at the top of the page, and see what the price is. The one good thing they have is the Head 2 Head thing they have in the beginning, where they pit two products against each other. This month it was Yahoo! Mail vs. Hotmail. So this really isnt a great magazine, nor a good PC magazine (no pun). If you want a real independent magazine, go with PC Magazine. (And for more on that, read my review...if it ever gets posted).
2 of 2 customers found the following review helpful:
 Great Techie Magazine!, 2004-01-05
This is a great magazine for the techie. It reviews a variety of types of hardware and has good in depth articles like, "The Hard Drive Handbook." My only complaints are that it focuses a little too much on gaming hardware and I would like to see more side by side comparisons of hardware products.
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