Maximum PC

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Maximum PC

Holiday 2018 cover
Editor	Zak Storey
Categories	Computing
Frequency	Monthly
Total circulation (2011[1])	192,611
First issue	August 1996 (as boot) September 1998 (as Maximum PC)
Company	Future US
Country	USA
Based in	San Francisco
Language	English
Website	www.maximumpc.com
ISSN	1522-4279

Maximum PC, formerly known as boot, is an American magazine and website published by Future US. It focuses on cutting-edge PC hardware, with an emphasis on product reviews, step-by-step tutorials, and in-depth technical briefs. Component coverage areas include 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 is directed at smartphones, tablet computers, cameras and other consumer electronic devices that interface with consumer PCs. Software coverage focuses on games, anti-virus suites, content-editing programs, and other consumer-level applications.

Prior to September 1998, the magazine was called boot. boot and sister magazine MacAddict (now Mac|Life) launched in September 1996, when Future US shut down CD-ROM Today.

In March 2016, Future US announced that the Maximum PC website would be merged with PCGamer.com, appearing as the hardware section of the website from that point forward. The magazine was not affected by this change. Browsing to the http://MaximumPC.com/forum site no longer forwards to the forums and instead forwards to the Hardware section of PCGamer.com.^[2]

The final shipped print issue of Maximum PC was the April 2023 edition.^[3] New issues will continue being distributed through digital magazine formats.