Table of contents for October 2015 in Maximum PC

AFTER AN ILLUSTRIOUS KICKSTARTER CAMPAIGN IN 2012, in which it raised more than $8 million, Ouya, the company behind the $99 Android gaming console, fell into a well. The hackable-console firm lurched from setback to setback, with the situation seemingly coming to a head in April. A leaked memo from Ouya CEO Julie Uhrman reportedly suggested the company was struggling to restructure its debt. Put simply, it was in desperate need of a buyout. But now, it seems, there may well be hope. Well, maybe. Investment bank Mesa Global announced, but then swiftly retracted,news that it had brokered a deal with Razer. No details were given, and noconfirmation has been forthcoming from Razer, which has its own Androidconsole, Forge TV, despite no shortage of opportunity at E3.…

> Laptop CPU Choices > Malware Removal > Case Issues Santa Has Questions I’ll be purchasing a new Dell laptop for (wife’s) Christmas. It will most likely be a 14-inch Latitude E7000 series. It will run Windows 10 Pro and Office 2013. Our IT department supports all Dell products, we have special pricing as well as a dedicated sales rep. That being said, I enjoyed the August article “Intel vs. AMD Chip Wars” that covered desktops. (I’m running the AMD FX-8350 on my home desktop.) I prefer a dedicated GPU versus integrated graphics with all my computers. My question is, which CPU should I choose for her custom-build laptop? Dell’s options are usually limited to “fourth-gen i5 or i7, fifthgen i5 or i7.” Rather than defaulting to the fifth-gen i7,…