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PC World's 100 Best Products of 2005

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i'll-take-three-of-each dept.

insensitive clod writes "PC World published its top 100 best products of 2005. These include Firefox(1), GMail(2), OSX 10.4(3), Alienware Aurora 5500(6), Seagate USB 2.0 Pocket Drive(7), Skype(8), PalmOne Treo 650(10), Google(16), PSP(19), GeForce6600GT(20), Ubuntu(26), iTunes(34), Half-Life 2(38), Wikipedia(60), ThinkPad X41(67), Mac Mini(75), Acronis True Image(83), Opera(88). Surprisingly, iPod only has IPod Photo at 78."

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  1. surprisingly? by cryptoz · · Score: 5, Insightful

    There *are* better things out there than the iPod. How is this surprising? And when you have such a generalized list...well, you will always get strange results. What was the criteria for determining a product that would make the list?

    1. Re:surprisingly? by 1u3hr · · Score: 4, Insightful
      There *are* better things out there than the iPod. How is this surprising?

      Especially since it's about products of 2005; the iPod debuted in 2001.

  2. I'm suprised at the wide variety of products. by keeleysam · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Over the years, PC World has becaome very toned down, and I see them only reviewing full PC's, never individual components.

    To see products like:
    NVidia GeForce 6600 GT Graphics Board
    Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 SATA NCQ Internal Hard Drive
    Plextor PX-716UF Rewritable DVD Drive
    Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe Motherboard

    That was a nice suprise, and even though I may not agree with the list, it was still interesting to see what they picked.

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  3. 2005, really? by Thantos_42 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Are we to believe that all those things came about in 2005? The wikipedia article on wikipedia, for instance, mentions that "Wikipedia began as a complement to the expert-written Nupedia on January 15, 2001. "

  4. ads by minus_273 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    why do some of these products just seem like ads? Its hard not to laugh when you come up on something like this :

    "Microsoft Windows Media Player 10 Media Player" . I have no idea how media player is the best media player. The article cant explain it either. hmmm

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    1. Re:ads by Dylan+Zimmerman · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Please note that iTunes at number 34 is also marked as a Media Player. Thus, the words after the link just describe what the product is rather than saying "This is the best _______".

      Also, Windows Media Player 10 is much better than some of the previous ones with respect to interface. And compatibility, too.

      Goodness it's hard to say that with a straight face. I mean, come on. QuickTime 7 beats it hands down in quite a few respects (Mmm. Decent H.264), and even then, QT7 isn't the best media player out there for everything.

  5. Product Inflation by Mulletproof · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Um, GMail? Now I know we love google and all, but its web-based email. Admittedly, it has more storage than its competitor, but I'm still missing the part that makes it thesecond best product of 2005. Are we that hard up for products? Of course when it comes to "Top Ten" lists such as these opinions are like armpits, but web-based email? I wouldn't have put it in the top 20, to be honest with you, but that's just IMFreakinO. Number two???? Sigh.

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    1. Re:Product Inflation by David+Horn · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Sorry, I agree with the article. Gmail is the best web-based mail package hands down. I forward all my email to my Gmail account now.

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  6. Raw list?? by backslashdot · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I actually clicked the link to RTFA for once. And then all I see is a list! Surely they should specify what the ranking is based on? For me, security and reliability is important. For some people, it's ease of use. And for others, it's whether the icons use cartoon characters. Free advice to PC World: put some context as to what the ranking is based on! What were the criteria? And, if the criterias didnt weigh equally let us know that too?