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October 2006 - Build the Ultimate Media Center PC!

The Maximum PC Staff — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 08:10:01 -0500

The complete PDF archive of the October 2006 edition of Maximum PC, every article included, every page posted! Download it now!

Etymotic ER-6 Isolator

Michael Brown — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 14:26:30 -0500

The relentless snare drum crack on “Jack of Speed” was enough to make some of the lesser earbuds beg for mercy, but the Etymotic ER-6 Isolators delivered it nearly perfectly. More importantly, they served up Beck’s bass with equal authority.

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Seagate 160GB Portable External

Josh Norem — Sat, 07 Oct 2006 16:56:05 -0500

Seagate’s portable external drive sports the highest capacity in its class, by 40GB, thanks to its perpendicular recording technology, which packs more data on every platter of the hard drive. It comes in a rough-and-ready aluminum enclosure that keeps the drive both safe and cool.

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Digital Storm Twister Ultra 4

Gordon Mah Ung — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 10:35:55 -0500

When we looked at Digital Storm’s Twister Ultra 4, we thought of it as Every Dude’s Machine. You know, it’s just how the average person would build it. There’s no fancy-pants paint or custom wiring. But there is a gratuitous use of drive bay doodads like an LED screen, removable hard drive adapter, and Creative Labs Live drive. The upshot? The already-macho-looking Cooler Master CM Stacker case looks even more, well, macho. Yup, this rig will make you hitch up your pants, snort, and say, “Oh yeah, this is just how I’d build it—none of that sissy stuff!”

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Asus P5W DH Deluxe

Gordon Mah Ung — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 12:34:39 -0500

Oh, how the world turns. Last month you marched past the Intel 975X chipset motherboards holding your nose, but with the release of the Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Extreme CPUs you’ve made a U-turn to give this chipset a second look.

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ExtremeMac FS1

Michael Brown — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 14:35:29 -0500

It’s been our experience that you get what you pay for, more often than not. The ExtremeMac FS1 earbuds, however, fall into the “not” territory. The $150 for-sale sign hanging on these little buggers easily qualifies them as the most expensive earphones of the group, but they certainly didn’t sound like it.

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Zyxel PL-100 Powerline Adapter

Will Smith — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 17:54:16 -0500

The Zyxel PL-100 uses the same Intellon INT 5500CS chipset that Netgear’s XE104 uses (reviewed May 2006), and the results are predictable: In our bandwidth tests, we managed a mere 1.2Mb/s—slower than our DSL line.

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Maxtor One Touch III 100GB

Josh Norem — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 17:40:37 -0500

Maxtor has downsized its awesome One Touch Turbo desktop backup drive into this 100GB Mini model. It looks exactly the same as the Turbo, and it comes with the same excellent software.

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