I bought a TV from Amazon last year, but I have a feeling I'm in the minority on this. In other words, the reason Amazon's sales held pretty steady is that they make bank on "small ticket" i ...

Will - thanks for making the effort to expand Maximum PCs reach by improving your very own branded web site. Happy you didn't take the path of a sister mag which shall remain nameless.   ...

Only if, as the picture sagely suggests, half of that $44 billion goes toward deploying tacos around the country. No child should be without affordable high-quality Mexican cuisine.  ...

Yah. As long as you can buy blank tapes, it's still alive. Some people are oddly stubborn.   ...

What a silly question. You can't "trust" companies, because companies aren't people. Corporate culture changes as personell change. The only consistency in any corporation's culture is the n ...

Anybody who's been paying attention should be getting increasingly nervous about Google. I suspect in five years, we'll be looking back on the "evil empire" Microsoft with nostalgia.  ...

Windows admins are a dime a dozen, so it's hardly surprising that the short-term costs of using Windows rather than open source are lower. Once you've made the commitment to hire competant admins, how ...

have added turning off Windows Search in Vista. It generates a ton of disk activity, and isn't useful enough to be worthwhile. Personally, I also turn off system restore. Max PC may consider the extra ...

Hardware RAID support would have been nice, but for $300 I suppose you can't complain too much.  ...

He's a jackass for stealing games, but I'd have to agree with his assessment of Spore. And I paid for it.  ...

When's the last time you looked at a Linux distro? I use Kubuntu on both my work desktop and a personal laptop daily, and it really has become pretty brainless. Granted, I know what I'm doing, but I c ...

No, thanks. I'd much rather pay a set monthly fee for access to all possible game content than be held up for a few bucks every time I want to do something interesting.  ...

you can't have an OS "that runs Windows programs right out of the box" with like-for-like performance and compatibility without using (or at least emulating REALLY convincingly) a significan ...

On the surface, this seems like an ignorant screed...but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt.Please explain your issue in clear English. What company? What employees? "Kids" you can't tak ...

Let me know when you find a Linux app that:a) does transcodingb) is DLNA compatible c) is free  ...

Urban hipsters wearing t-shirts with corporate logos from the 70s is annoying. Geeks with old M$ marketing spew would be almost as bad..   ...

$500 does get you the top of the line netbook. The 1002HA is it. Same for the best netbooks from Lenovo, etc. All around $500.    ...

I've never owned a computer for five years much less kept a single installation of Windows around for that long. If it makes you feel better, my current Vista install has been in place since August 20 ...

Celeron, it weighs 6 lbs, and much worse battery life.We're talking about two different markets here. A full-size laptop should be a good machine (dual-core, 7200 RPM drive, etc.) With an ultra-portab ...

Hehehe...  ...

$500 is expensive? A good laptop (i.e., one I'd actually take seriously and use for business) runs around $1600.  $500 sounds about right for a decent ultra-portable.  ...

Good idea, but put in your back pocket for 18 months or so. I don't see much point in trying to save the public perception of Vista at this point, M$ lost the media war long ago. When Windows 7 launch ...

I can definitely see the use of netbooks for in-class note taking and travel if you don't need to run anything resource-intensive. Using it as a primary PC? Hell no. Considering how cheap they are, wh ...

" I had to go get a plug-in for everything I wanted to view..." Huh? Examples, please.  ...

"And ghot: Linux is nothing more than an elitist toy for nerd snobs. Even the distros that are almost as user friendly as Windows are just as bloated (or more so) as Windows, and you still can ...