A TALE OF TWO SYSTEMS

WHEN I JOINED Maximum PC last month,

Intel’s ambitious investment plans

Team Blue is back with a bang

BYE-BYE BALLISTIX

NO MORE ENTHUSIAST MODULES FROM CRUCIAL

NO ACCOUNT, NO WINDOWS PRO

Microsoft to insist on authentication

DUFF MEMORY INCREASES PRICES

Contamination hits fabs, production binned

NEW BUDGET RTX CARDS

Nvidia follows AMD to 4GB

Is HoloLens 3 dead?

Microsoft HoloLens looks epic, but securing orders is

Monster board, monster price

MSI has released its MEG Z690 Godlike motherboards.

AMD bigger than Intel, briefly

For the first time in its history, AMD

Big Fish Intel Enters the Mining Pool

PERHAPS A SIGN of the coming cryptapocalypse, Intel

THE LIST

THE TOP FIVE TKL GAMING KEYBOARDS

18 months of awesomeness

NOT LONG AGO, it was fashionable to write

DOCTOR

THIS MONTH THE DOCTOR TACKLES

$1300 12TH-GEN DELIGHT

What can we get from Intel’s 12th-gen mid-range chip?

12TH-GEN DELIGHT BUILD

Can this 12th-gen rig power you to 1080p gaming joy?

LETTERS

WE TACKLE TOUGH READER QUESTIONS ON

THE BUILDS

THIS MONTH’S STREET PRICES

RISE OF THE CHROMEBOOK

Are Chromebooks the revolution the laptop space needs or will Windows emerge triumphant? Christian Guyton explores

GETTING CONNECTED

Before there was the internet, there was the ARPANET. Ian Evenden speaks to some of those who were there, and discovers how they set about building something that had barely been imagined

CENTERFOLD

PERFORMANCE GEAR LAID BARE

FOREVER FRENEMIES

The PC and Mac have been rivals for nearly 40 years, yet the Mac has never had the measure of the PC. Could the arrival of Apple silicon finally give the Mac the edge?

LATE TO THE PARTY

This month, I decided to try out Xbox

The key stage: Add notes in FL Studio 20

YOU’LL NEED THIS FL STUDIO 20 www.image-line.com LAST

Machine of the Month: SAM Coupé (1989)

YOU’LL NEED THIS A COPY OF SIMCOUPE Windows

AI-powered Image Editing

YOU’LL NEED THIS LUMINAR NEO (OUT LATE 2022)

Frankenbuild! Turn Old Into New

It’s alive! Raiding the Maximum PC stock room

Gaming laptops DON’T suck

A riposte to Jeremy Laird’s recent column

Editor’s Pick: McLaren, Dell and eSports in education

Could gaming help with essential life skills?

EVGA GeForce RTX 3050

RTX goes mainstream, sort of

Corsair One i300

Updated for 2022 and still incredible

HP Chromebase 22

Rotation before procrastination

XFX Radeon RX 6500 XT

Trimming the fat, and then some

Acer Aspire Vero

Mean, green, eco machine

Ausdom AW651 HDR 2K Webcam

Conferencing communication companion?

MSI Immerse GV60 Streaming Mic

Is this streaming mic a crystal-clear winner?

SteelSeries Arctis 7+ Wireless Headset

Another impressive Arctis headset?

Vissles V84 Pro

A challenger approaches

Expeditions: Rome

Clearly not built in a day

Zoom vs. Google Meet

Two video conferencing services, which is better?