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LOOKING FORWARD

Apple’s M1 Generation • Do we have a serious rival to the x86 architecture?

FEDS SEIZE BITCOIN • GOVERNMENT RECOVERS STOLEN SILK ROAD PROCEEDS

FIRST DISCRETE INTEL XE GPUS • Intel prepares to be the third graphics player

Tech Triumphs and Tragedies • A monthly snapshot of what’s good and bad in tech

GOOGLE PHOTO ENDS UNLIMITED STORAGE • You’ll have to start paying from next June

POLICE AT THE DOOR

New Consoles, New War

Western Digital Marketing Woes

Apple Cuts

The Race to 5nm

THE LIST • MAXIMUM PC’S FAVORITE PERIPHERALS OF ALL TIME

DOCTOR • THIS MONTH THE DOCTOR TACKLES…

TECH PREVIEW 2021 • THE MAXIMUM PC TEAM AND CO. PREDICT WHAT THE COMING YEAR HAS IN STORE FOR THE WORLD OF TECH

THE CONSOLE CONNECTION

NANO COOLANT AIOs

THE LIGHT FANTASTIC

GEEK QUIZ • HAVE YOU BEEN PAYING ATTENTION? TIME TO PROVE IT

SUBSCRIBE TO MAXIMUM PC • THE GO-TO RESOURCE FOR PC ENTHUSIASTS…

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!

LET’S BUILD AN OS!

THE WEIRD ALT OS WORLD

BLESS GNU

INSTALLING ARCH LINUX

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

HOW TO • STEP-BY-STEP GUIDES TO IMPROVING YOUR PC

Xbox Series X

Cable Sleeving Part 3: Y Cables

Make Security Cameras With motionEyeOS

Machine of the Month: Apple II (1977)

Super Storage Station • Building our own full-tower storage house

Historical Accuracy • My frustrations with Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla

Editors’ Picks: Corsair Katar Pro Wireless Mouse • Corsair’s plucky little wireless mouse packs in lightning-fast connectivity across Bluetooth and 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi

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 ultralight scene with the Aerox 3,...