Maximum PC
US magazine
Maximum PC, formerly known as boot, was an American magazine and website published by Future US. It focused on cutting-edge PC hardware, with an emphasis on product reviews, step-by-step tutorials, and in-depth technical briefs. Component coverage areas included CPUs, motherboards, core-logic chipsets, memory, videocards, mechanical hard drives, solid-state drives, optical drives, cases, component cooling, and anything else to do with recent tech news. Additional hardware coverage was directed at smartphones, tablet computers, cameras and other consumer electronic devices that interface with consumer PCs. Software coverage focused on games, anti-virus suites, content-editing programs, and other consumer-level applications.
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This entry incorporates text from “Maximum PC” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.