VorJoshigan

February 27, 2011 at 9:37pm

When I had to move recently I decided to toss my collection of Boot/MaxPC mags, but I decided to keep the Dream Machine editions. Nice memories. 

Dysthymia

February 26, 2011 at 3:51pm

Yeah I was excited to read these old articles but when you zoom in the text still isn't big enough.

Burk

February 26, 2011 at 3:37pm

While I also lust for a new high performance i7 rig to replace my 3 year old P5Q / Q9550 system, I don't dare to upgrade because of these frustrating software restrictions.  My current PC used for gaming and audio/video editing is so riddled with "Activation" / "Authentication" / "Software Registration" issues that I am locked into my current built.  I have some 15+ programs on my computer that required activation, starting from MS (OS, Office), Security (Norton), AV (video editing programs with some 10 audio or video plug-ins), where (except for Adobe programs) I have no clue how to deauthorize them and reactivate on another computer. And I am doubling my problems since I am using a dual boot Win7/WinXP system. The help screens on most of these programs are extremely coy about the possibility to migrate to another computer.  While a rebuild of the computer would be nice, I can't/won't justify paying some $2,500 again for the same software as on the current computer just to get a 10% improvement in performance.  Sounds like an interesting topic for a MaximumPC article, come to think of it.

Burk

FattSlice

February 26, 2011 at 2:43pm

Could you not toot your own horn and say the "finest PCs ever built", your last three dream machines have been nothing to write home about, in fact, your latest one was laughable, it didn't even have a high end SSD in it. Instead, you wasted that potential performance on a completely worthless amount of cores, RAM, and pitifully clocked Xeons, anyone able to read would be able to put together a better performing PC than that given the money, and yes, back then, not right now with newer hardware.

Talcum X

February 26, 2011 at 9:11am

Suggestion for this year's DM...

Don't use "Best PC Ever"...seems to be the norm every time...let's try something different.  It was nice to walk down memory lane, especially DM '03 which inspired my current rig.  Yes, it's that old.  But that's life in the poor lane.

PhynaeusClaw

February 25, 2011 at 9:08pm

Other sites definitely do galleries better, but the whole gallery format (regardless of the site) is annoying as heck to use. Just drop it and put the images in an article that has something useful to read.

BaronOvHell

February 25, 2011 at 4:15pm

Agreed, I can't read the text in any of the images unless it's a header

SilverSurferNHS

February 25, 2011 at 2:45pm

your galley breaks like crazy

also, it would be nice when you post a gallery - if you could click next in the overlay to get to the next pic instead of having to click out of the gallery, click to the next pic and click it again to even see the image (which are too small as well to read). You guys could use my services in User Interface Design.