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PC World 's Best 100 Products of 2007

Posted by Zonk on from the have-to-love-those-product-lists dept.

javipas writes "The popular PC World magazine has published its annual list of the 100 best products of the year, with a few surprises on it. Google Apps Premiere Edition ranks first, with 4 other service products on the list. Apple has six products on it, with Tiger — a two-year old OS — on the ninth position. Microsoft and Dell have four each, and Canon and Nikon, three. Ubuntu 7.04 has made it, and has entered on the 16th position. That makes you think about the kind of ranking process, doesn't it?"

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  1. Nikon D40X in 23rd by denisbergeron · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Wow ! I realy don't know why this on was there, but, every photographer out there think that a bad camera because the lack of AF-motor and the impossibility to use half the lenses of Nikon !

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  2. Re:Um? Time Warp? by mabu · · Score: 1, Interesting

    The whole story is basically one long advertisement.

    These days there is no distinction between editorial and advertising, thanks to the Fairness Doctrine being eliminated. While the FD never affected specialty print publications like PC World, the fact that for the most part, all mainstream media shamelessly panders to their advertisers has made the notion of objective reviewing almost nonexistent.

  3. OS X Tiger by sootman · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If you want to be generous in your interpretation, maybe you could say they included it to make the point that, even at two years old, it's still better than most of what's out there. (Reference: see almost every Vista review out there. Their quip: "Name a good Vista feature that goes beyond what's in Tiger. Yeah, we can't either.") Speaking of Vista, it didn't make the list at all. Not 1st, not 99th, nowhere.

    Craigslist also made the list, and that's what, 10 years old now? I guess the list means "100 best tech products that you can still get this year"--in which case OS X and CL definitely belong. It's "The 100 Best Products of 2007," not "The 100 Best NEW Products of 2007." (CL just gets better and better, though I wish they'd make the jump from plain text to a database so I could RELIABLY find Macintoshes without having to look for Apple and Mac and Macintosh and IMAC (OMG CAPS!!!!!11) They don't have to go all the way and make people specify VRAM and 10/100 vs. gigabit, but mfg-make-model-speed would be nice. It could all be optional, so retards who don't want to mess with dropdowns can just accept that they'll get fewer views.)

    More than anything, any "best of" list that includes Adobe Premier is immediately suspect. :-)

    If you want to get really picky, you could point out that 2007 is not over yet. You know what it is? I think it's "We Felt Like Making a List of a Bunch of Things We Like." Thank you, Slashdot, for slavishly supplying them with pageviews.

    Suggested tag: slownewsday

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  4. Re:Um? Time Warp? by WhatAmIDoingHere · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Don't forget that most of the articles in the May edition of Magazine were written back in March.

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  5. Say what now? by mcmonkey · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Considering the whole list is one giant opinion, and your only real argument in favor of your position is that you personally disagree, I'd say troll is appropriate.

    So a whole article of opinion is worthy of the front page, but expressing an opinion on those opinions is troll?