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January 2007 - Next-Gen PC Gaming!

Maximum PC Staff — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 08:18:11 -0500

The complete PDF archive of the January 2007 edition of Maximum PC, every article included, every page posted! Download it now!

How To: Host Your Blog at Home

David Murphy — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 13:38:44 -0600

Always wanted to be able to run your own blog from your home? Here's your chance to find out just what it takes.

Sid Meier's Railroads!

Cameron Lewis — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 13:38:44 -0600

Like most games bearing his name, Sid Meier's Railroads! is wonderfully simple to learn, but extraordinarily difficult to master.

Reservoir Dogs

Norman Chan — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 13:38:44 -0600

We don't know who owns the rights to Quentin Tarantino's classic jewel-heist-gone-awry film, but licensing the gaming rights to Reservoir Dogs is probably the worst decision that studio executive ever made.

Splinter Cell: Double Agent

Will Smith — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 13:38:44 -0600

Longtime readers will know that we're big fans of the adventures of Sam Fisher. There's something eminently satisfying about using a combination of stealthy moves, acrobatics, and super-spy gadgets to get into places where you're not supposed to be and take things you're not supposed to have.

Patriot Xporter XT 4GB

Gordon Mah Ung — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 13:38:44 -0600

The Patriot Xporter XT offers the same capacity at less than half the price of Kingston’s drive (reviewed next). Unfortunately, that’s the only stand-out feature we could find.

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Kingston Datatraveler Secure 4GB

Gordon Mah Ung — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 13:38:44 -0600

Kingston’s DataTraveler Secure is billed as an “enterprise-grade” flash drive. Translated for civvies, that means 256-bit AES hardware encryption, an IPX8 waterproof rating, and a titanium shell. Oh yeah, and optimization for small files. While almost every key we’ve tested in the last few months choked on the 10,000 Word docs we feed them during testing, the DataTraveler Secure was able to write that onslaught of files in three minutes instead of the usual 20 minutes.

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Corsair Flash Voyager 8GB

Gordon Mah Ung — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 13:35:05 -0600

Corsair’s Flash Voyager isn’t the largest thumb drive around, but it sure is affordable, as well as speedy. In our tests, the Voyager ran away from all the others here in large-file transfers, and only Kingston’s drive could match it in medium-size JPG file copies.

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