Posted 07/07/2009 at 11:03:04pm

This should not be the main feature of the latest MaximumPC magazine. These tips are for noobs that have no idea what they are doing and do not deserve to either build or operate a computer. Make sure to have anti-virus installed....really... thanks for the tip guy. 

MaximumPC has not been really Maximum at all these past few months. You guys seem to be catering more to the oblivious PC enthusiasts.

BTW Microsoft Virtual PC is horrible compared to VMWare Workstation. Sure it is free and that is why it sucks. Nothing but a headache, with VMWare Workstation I was ready to go in about 15 minutes without any previous experience.

Im seriously considering abandoning ship and heading over to Anandtech for my hardware reviews and using Dailytech for my daily news updates were the discussions are between IT professionals and not basement dwelling trolls.

Posted 06/10/2009 at 09:43:25pm

Your going to shoot yourself in the foot following this advice. Your basically saying a non-savy computer user can follow your advice and fix his own computer by using your troubleshooting methods. Wrong, to troubleshoot effectively there is one thing needed and that is experience. With experience all this comes as second nature. You can document all you want, but as soon as someone who doesnt know what they are doing makes a mistake editting the registry and now cannot get into their OS, he has just made the problem worse. Although i do agree with experimentation but you need more knowledge then just hardware, you need to know the ramifications of your actions to experiment effectively not just "oh this did not work, but what do I do now since I can't get back into my OS."

This is like saying oh you can fix your own car if you follow these steps but how to take apart your car and put it back together is none of my concern and if something happens that is out of the ordinary then nothing will help you but someone who is experienced....i want my 2 minutes back.

Posted 05/27/2009 at 11:42:14am

People clueless to the server market will obviously say it is pointless to have more cores because applications are not coded for multiple cores...please educate yourself

These server are not meant to run single threaded applications, they are going to be used for virtualization using VMWare ESXi or VSphere where entire servers will be virtualized and paritioned using the servers bare metal resources. Standalone servers can then be decomissioned and save the company on cooling and energy costs. 

You are able to host all the server of a small company on one of these servers when virtualized.

Posted 05/27/2009 at 11:07:11am

Please revise this article.

What is mentioned is a malicious script, not a virus.

I would go into what consititutes a virus but you can just google it and educate yourself.

Posted 05/13/2009 at 04:41:55pm

Who keeps their media files in their user profile anymore? Not I, this article is pointless, sure you will get a nice fast boot time and save space but almost everyone keeps their media on a backup harddrive where storage is valued more then speed. Space is not of concern. People are worried about failure of the flash memory, I believe that most MLC SSD's can have 10gigs written to it each day for 5 years and still be okay.

This article kills the whole notion of speeding up applications. Sure you save space by putting your games on a mechanical harddrive, but guess what, when you load up that game, it's going to be loading from the traditional harddrive, enjoy the longer wait of the loading screen.

Posted 03/10/2009 at 05:10:27pm

This feature is straight garbage, for a much better, indepth feature check out Anandtech's Phenom II System Buyers' Guide.

http://anandtech.com/guides/showdoc.aspx?i=3521

Parts are compared and evaluated and enitre systems are built in three catergories.

Please do not post these amateur reviews anymore.