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 Kick A** Magazine! Must have for PC Power Users!, 2007-10-29
If you are a PC Power user, this mag is for you. Comes with a CD loaded with Demos and Freeware. Real Kick A**! Great product reviews, and honest opinions. You need this magazine!!!
1 of 3 customers found the following review helpful:
Maximizing Electronics Enjoyment, 2007-09-24
Maximum PC is a magazine for electronics freaks, offering many different articles about electronics; how to buy them, how to repair them, how to get the most out of them, and how best to replace them. This magazine is aimed in one primary direction: Making the most out of the electronic devices available. This is accomplished through the many instructional articles, how to guides, and question and answer sessions.
When Maximum PC isn't offering words of wisdom on ways to improve your life with electronics, the magazine is usually offering reviews of new products. The reviews section is one of the largest parts of each issue and while it does a nice job bringing new products to the forefront, the reviews are often less than stellar. Rather than analyze a few products in- depth, Maximum PC instead prefers to offer shorter reviews of many products. This part of the magazine seems more concerned with quantity than quality, in contrast to most of the remainder of the magazine.
One thing about Maximum PC that isn't to my liking is the technical nature of many articles. Maximum PC likes to get to the root of things (literally), and it is common to find articles talking about circuits, memory, and other boring subjects. This is fine for those who take their technology to the extremes, but I have no interest in learning about the inter-workings of the wiring inside my personal computer or the electronic pulses that cause my printer to respond on queue. This is a little too much technology for me, but I know there are some readers who will relish the depths that Maximum PC goes to when it strips down electronic devices into their component parts.
Overall, Maximum PC is a pretty good electronics magazine for young and middle- aged adults. It loses me from time to time when it gets overly technical, but it still ranks as a good magazine about electronics. The numerous question and answer sessions, the educational articles, and the product reviews make this a magazine worth reading.
2 of 13 customers found the following review helpful:
 Great Magazine, 2007-09-11
After going through pretty much all the PC type magazines out there I finally found what I consider the best one out there. I still have a PC gamer subscription but I generally skim through all but the few game types I like and the hardware sections. It seems like everything in this magazine is interesting to me every month. I have never found another magazine that I didn't skim through whole sections almost every month
Things you will see in this magazine
hardware reviews
software reviews (games and productivity stuff)
website reviews - It's nice to have a place that finds the cool websites that I just don't have time to find on my own.
Scam information - Gives you some things to watch out for.
PC build and configuration advice - Lots of articles on stuff like building PC's and fixing up Windows or even Linux.
Technology advances - This is where I keep up on upcoming PC advances so I know if it's a good time to upgrade.
Overall I just can't say enough about how relevant the information in this magazine is to my interests and a PC Enthusiast
2 of 6 customers found the following review helpful:
MaxPC, 2007-08-23
Not so max anymore, but still worth the price (I get it without the CD as I can download any demos or utilities they discuss).
If you just have to read about PC gear, this is it. The new forums at the mag website are weak and loaded with newbs, wannabes and politically correct mods. Check Delphi forums for the ORIGINAL MaxPC foum, The Commport.
6 of 8 customers found the following review helpful:
Great Geek Magazine., 2007-07-06
If you are *really* into computers (especially hardware) then this mag is for you. Oh it does cover software as well (especially games) but this is a mag for those into the gear.
Much of it is aimed at the DIY and gamer crowd, but for those who aren't all that into that (like me), it's still a good reference with a lot of useful information and reviews.
The only thing I don't think much of is the monthly CD. Much of the software is somewhat dated by the time you get it and most if not all if it is available for download on the Internet (and you usually get newer versions).
If you're really into games, then the CD might be a good choice thanks to the game demos (which can be sizable downloads) but as far as the other stuff is concerned, it's mostly worthless.
Save yourself the expense and get the subscription without the CD (which Amazon doesn't seem to offer - but it does exist). Even if you are into games you might find that only a few of what they put on the CDs are of interest and your cost will still be lower by just downloading it.
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