Maximum PC

Editor-in-Chief: Guy Cocker Contributing Writers: Tyler Colp, Nate Drake, Ian Evenden, Darien Graham-Smith, Jeremy Laird, Chris Lloyd, Nick Peers, Zak Storey, Mollie Taylor, Jarred Walton Production Editor: Steve Wright Editor Emeritus: Andrew Sanche

AS I WRITE THIS, I’ve just returned from this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, where I saw enough laptops, desktops, and monitors to easily fill these pages for the next 12 issues. Coming away knowing a bit more about the lay of the lan

THE NEW YORK TIMES has become the first big media organization to sue OpenAI over copyright infringement. The lawsuit claims OpenAI has been trained on content it produced, and now competes with them using the results. It claims OpenAI should be liab

✔ COPILOT GETS OWN KEY Microsoft wants AI on the laptop keyboard via a dedicated Copilot key—the first change since 1994’s Start key. ✔ GAME OVER NES classic Tetris‘s kill screen is somewhere above level 155. One player hit it at level 157. ✔ WI-FI 7

A Windows installation can get bloated. Wouldn’t you like a fresh OS without losing your stuff? Microsoft’s latest beta has an option dubbed ‘Fix Problems Using Windows Update’. It installs a new copy of the version you are running without removing y

Apple has confirmed a launch date of February 2 for the Vision Pro headset. For $3,499, you get an M2 processor, 4K OLED displays, and plenty of cameras. It’s a unique blend of augmented reality and virtual reality. Apple arrived late to the VR party

NVIDIA’S RTX 40-SERIES Ada Lovelace GPUs have had a rocky reception, mostly on account of their significantly higher generational prices, reduced memory interface widths, and reliance on DLSS 3 frame generation to make performance look better. It’s a

BY THE TIME you read this, Intel will have rolled out a whole new roadmap, the next waypoint on its journey to renewed technological dominance. Except I can’t help but notice that the company hasn’t come close to delivering on its existing roadmap. Y

> N100 conundrum > Fix corrupt Office > Turn back time I’m looking to upgrade my J4125-ITX NAS server, and have settled on Intel’s newest chip—the N100 processor, which benchmarks tell me represents a huge leap forward over the previous board, even t

The free LibreOffice suite interoperates very cleanly with Microsoft Office, but if you’re sharing files with Office users, you may hit formatting issues, because the Raspberry Pi OS doesn’t include Microsoft’s proprietary fonts. You can improve matt

The first ARM-based version of Windows was Windows RT, created in 2012 for the original Microsoft Surface tablet. It looked almost identical to Windows 8, but it only supported ARM-native code, and couldn’t run existing Windows desktop apps. Unsurpri

The VeraCrypt website is quite clear about situations in which the program’s encryption can’t help you. If, for instance, you unlock an encrypted system partition containing malware, your data is still at risk. If an adversary has physical access to

Unless you were looking for a replacement email client and calendar tool, chances are you skipped the opportunity to set them up during the initial wizard. Should you want to add these back in—plus access Vivaldi’s RSS feed editor—navigate to Setting

BIT OF A left field pick this, I’ll admit, but it’s one of the best things I’ve ever owned. For context, I come from a very musical family. The young ’uns, particularly big into metal and rock in general, are often gifted with guitar lessons, drum tu

THERE’S PROBABLY a reason for the explosion in popularity of YouTube and the rise of multi-core PCs with GPUs happening at around the same time. Sure, you can shoot and edit video on a smartphone, but for a really professional looking job, nothing be