Maximum PC March 2005 RSS Feed

Sonos Digital Music System

Will Smith — Tue, 15 Mar 2005 20:41:56 -0600

Sonos's Kick Ass MP3 streaming system delivers almost-magical ease of use with it's beautiful remote, but it's not cheap!

M-Audio StudioPro 4

Maximum PC — Tue, 15 Mar 2005 20:19:12 -0600

Audio accuracy on a budget

Month Reviewed: April 2005
Verdict: 8
URL: www.m-audio.com

If you have a home recording studio, you shouldn’t use a subwoofer-based speaker system because it will present an inaccurate representation of what you’re creating.

Klipsch ProMedia Ultra 2.0

Michael Brown — Tue, 15 Mar 2005 20:15:24 -0600

They’re Klipsch. They must be good, right?

Deck BL82 Illuminated Keyboard

Maximum PC — Tue, 15 Mar 2005 19:23:17 -0600

A little-bit pretty, a whole-lot uncomfortable

Month Reviewed: April 2005
Verdict:
URL: www.deckkeyboards.com

We love a good illuminated keyboard.

m:robe MR-500i Music Player

Maximum PC — Tue, 15 Mar 2005 18:02:23 -0600

All dressed up with little to show

Month Reviewed: April 2005
Verdict: 4
URL: www.olympusamerica.com

The Olympus m:robe MR-500i appeals to your biological instincts so brazenly that it’s downright smutty.

Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 400GB

Maximum PC — Tue, 15 Mar 2005 17:13:40 -0600

It draws blood but misses the takedown

Month Reviewed: April 2005
Verdict: 8
URL: www.seagate.com

It’s been all quiet on the Seagate front for more than a year, but the world’s largest hard drive manufacturer is back on the offensive with its new, eighth-generation Barracuda.

Kaos Extreme Game36

Maximum PC — Tue, 15 Mar 2005 16:13:20 -0600

Extreme machine packs some unextreme components

Month Reviewed: April 2005
Verdict: 6
URL: www.kaospc.com/

It seems as though an eternity has passed since we last reviewed a PC with an Intel badge on it.

Abit Fatal1ty AA8XE

Maximum PC — Tue, 15 Mar 2005 14:51:25 -0600

A gamer's dream come true

Month Reviewed: April 2005
Verdict: 8
URL: www.abit.com

If it’s possible for George Foreman to devise a mean, lean, fat-burning machine, than it shouldn’t be much of a stretch for the world’s greatest videogame player to design a mean, lean gaming mobo, should it? We can’t picture Jonathan "Fatal1ty" Wendel standing over a PCB and popping in TSOPs by hand, but Wendel says he did have a lot of input in the design of the AA8XE board.

Some of the features are classic Abit, including the dual outside thermal-exhaust system (OTES).