MAXIMUM PC’S FAVORITE PERIPHERALS OF ALL TIME

LOOKING FORWARD

a thing or two about a thing or two

Apple’s M1 Generation

Do we have a serious rival to the x86 architecture?

GOOGLE PHOTO ENDS UNLIMITED STORAGE

You’ll have to start paying from next June

FEDS SEIZE BITCOIN

GOVERNMENT RECOVERS STOLEN SILK ROAD PROCEEDS

FIRST DISCRETE INTEL XE GPUS

Intel prepares to be the third graphics player

POLICE AT THE DOOR

Can we live-stream from your house?

Western Digital Marketing Woes

Earlier this year customers of Western Digital uncovered

New Consoles, New War

HERE WE GO AGAIN, Sony and Microsoft go

Apple Cuts

If you sell through Apple’s App Store the

TECH TALK

The Race to 5nm

DOCTOR

THIS MONTH THE DOCTOR TACKLES

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WE TACKLE TOUGH READER QUESTIONS ON

THE MAXIMUM PC TEAM AND CO. PREDICT WHAT THE COMING YEAR HAS IN STORE FOR THE WORLD OF TECH

© PAUL BLACHFORD IT FEELS LIKE an old

GEEK QUIZ

HAVE YOU BEEN PAYING ATTENTION? TIME TO PROVE IT

THE INS & OUTS OF CODING AN OS

Neil Mohr takes us on an adventure into the wild and whacky world of operating systems, and figures out if you could write one too

I’M A WINDOWS USER GET ME OUT OF HERE!

IT’S HARD TO KNOW just how much we’re

LET’S BUILD AN OS!

Kicking off an Arch Linux install. © LINUX

INSTALLING ARCH LINUX

BEFORE YOU CAN DO ANYTHING you’ll want to

BUILD A SMART HOME OFFICE

Wiseguy Jonni Bidwell has some tips on making our homes and home offices smarter, with the latest FOSS offerings

A SMART HOME OFFICE?

Take a look at some great tools that can make a smart home smart, and a home office, er, official

OPENHAB AND MYCROFT

Use the power of Ubuntu’s openHAB appliance and the Mycroft Voice Assistant to voice-enable your home

JITSI MEET

Set up, secure, and self-host your way to video-conferencing nirvana, and you’ll never have to use Zoom again

NEXTCLOUD

We’ve been relying on Nextcloud to keep our files in sync for ages, and we think you should too

PORTAINER & DOCKER

Contain your sprawling smart home office with Portainer, then ruminate on a fully featured email server with Mailcow

TIP OF THE MONTH

HOW TO

Xbox Series X

THIS MONTH WE DISSECT

Cable Sleeving Part 3: Y Cables

YOU’LL NEED THIS TOOLS OUTLINED IN PREVIOUS ISSUES

Make Security Cameras With motionEyeOS

YOU’LL NEED THIS A SINGLE-BOARD COMPUTER Compatible camera(s).

Machine of the Month: Apple II (1977)

YOU’LL NEED THIS APPLEWIN We couldn’t find any

Super Storage Station

Building our own full-tower storage house

Historical Accuracy

My frustrations with Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla

AMD Ryzen 9 5900X

The underdog takes the lead

AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT

Memory, cache, and killer clocks, but it falls short

Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 Founders Edition

RTX 2080 Ti performance at half the price?

HP EliteOne 800 G5

All for one and one for all

Philips 279C9

A precision productivity package

be quiet! Silent Base 802

Taking modular customization to the extreme

HyperX Cloud Stinger S

Sting like a bee

SteelSeries Aerox 3 Mouse

SteelSeries enters the ultra-light scene with the Aerox 3, but is it a hit or a miss?

Happy Hacking Pro Hybrid Type-S Keyboard

$337 for this beauty, but why?

Ubuntu Desktop 20.10 for Raspberry Pi

The grooviest gorilla since Donkey Kong

Watch Dogs: Legion

Hacking on the streets of London

Google Chrome vs Mozilla Firefox

Who browses the browsers?

THE BUILD

BUDGET WE’RE IN A BIT OF AN