Maximum PC October 2007

Maximum PC, formerly known as boot, is an American magazine published by Future US, and focuses on modern day PC hardware. Most content in the magazine is projected to a less business-oriented audience than many other magazines. The magazine is focused more so on home-related computing, and the relation of modern hardware toward modern software and gaming.

Maximum PC's use of humor, sometimes vulgar language, and suggestive images (two of the issues featured a female nurse fixing a computer on the cover) gave it a distinct populist feeling, and also resulted in some controversy. In particular, the 'nurse cover' of February 2003 generated a large amount of reader feedback and letters.