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Interview: Maingear's CEO talks about their revamped gaming PC lineup

by John Callaham Nov 2nd 2009 @ 9:00AM

Much like Dell's Alienware gaming PC division revamped their entire lineup of desktops last month, other gaming PC makers are doing the same with their products. Today Maingear announced a major revamp of their own desktop line which they have named Shift. Along with the new desktop line comes a new logo for the company and a new case design made specifically for the Shift brand. Inside the case Maingear plans to allow for a ton of high end hardware choices and with prices starting at $2.199.

Big Download got the skinny from Maingear founder and CEO Wallace Santos about Maingear's "shift" in direction, along with what he thinks about the newly launched Windows 7 and the future of gaming PCs.

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Filed under: Features, Hardware, Interviews

Maingear prepping for big announcement?

by John Callaham Nov 1st 2009 @ 7:00AM

Remember how Alienware sometimes launches a teaser site when they have a major product announcement? Well it looks like fellow PC gaming maker Maingear is doing something similar. The company's main site has been changed with a countdown clock that is pointing to an announcement on Monday morning.

So what is it? We have no idea although the weird animation of a red cloud sky thingie and the "Something Wicked This Way Comes" on the teaser site makes us thing that something downright sinister is going to launch. And we are all about sinister here. In any case we should know Monday morning if Maingear will launch a new PC or if the apocalypse is due.

Filed under: Hardware