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The 100 Best Tech Products of 2006

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the but-it-is-only-halfway-over dept.

prostoalex writes "You've read about the 25 worst tech products, now it's time to check out a list of the 100 best tech products of 2006 from the same publication. PC World named Intel Core Duo, AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core, Craigslist.org, Apple iPod Nano and Seagate 160GB Portable Hard Drive the best tech products of this year."

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  1. Sad for MS by grub · · Score: 5, Interesting


    They have two products listed: a keyboard (#54) and the Xbox 360 (#89). Odd for a company that focuses mainly on software. Apple has a decent showing, even Ubuntu Linux shows up at #27.

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  2. Dual Core Processors by bwave · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Can't believe they feel Intel Dual Core 2 Duo X2 Dual-Processor CPU2 better than the Athlon 64 X2?

  3. Re:New layout? by Osty · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Am I just hallucinating, or did slashdot just switch over to that new CSS layout like they were threatening to last week?

    (Yeah, yeah, this is off-topic)

    Looks like you're not hallucinating. However, it also looks like they didn't really bother testing it, either.

    • Loading pages spikes my IE7 process to 100% CPU for a minute or so, even on short pages like this one.
    • The subject and comment box I'm typing in right now extend too far to the right (or more precisely, they're not lining up on the left correctly, pushing the boxes out to the right).
    • A number of the collapsible arrows on the main page to hide sections and such simply don't work
    • Speaking of the left-hand section headers, don't click on them. If you do, you'll waste a couple minutes while Slashdot AJAXly tries to load configuration information.
    • The "Meta Moderated" link in the "Have you Meta Moderated recently?" block is unreadable (dark green on dark gray)
    • Bulleted lists in comments don't display correctly, at least in the preview. For those that can't tell, this indented section here is supposed to be a bulleted list. (This one is also broken in FF)
    Interestingly enough, most of the above issues are fine in Firefox. While I realize Slashdot is Firefox-friendly and anti-Microsoft, I wouldn't be surprised if 50%+ of their traffic is still on Internet Explorer. I don't have IE6 installed on this machine so I can't veriify that the site works correctly there, but it's horribly broken with IE7. Way to go, guys.
  4. Re:Thank you for your opinion - now here's mine. by geminidomino · · Score: 4, Interesting

    if you don't like it then tell us some specifics on why you don't like it!

    Took me a few minutes to put my finger on it, but I finally figured out why I hate it:

    Too much negative space. (Read: blinding fscking WHITE). Sure, it's cleaner, with all that space, but now its little bits of black on white. Too hard on the eyes.

    How about a green-on-black CSS option, CmdrTaco?