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IT ALL STARTED WITH “Dream Machine”, on both the cover of the first issue of Maximum PC and its progenitor, Boot magazine. Over the years, megabucks Dream Machines have been just one of several signature cover features. Other regulars include “Gear of the Year’, “Tech Preview” and “Speed up Your PC”. Head-to-heads pitching Intel against its rival AMD have been popular down the years, as have features celebrating or denigrating the arrival of a new version of the 800lb gorilla of operating systems, Microsoft Windows. We’ve enjoyed giving Microsoft a kicking now and then.

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