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PC World 's Best 100 Products of 2007
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?"
Save it for December already!
If X is the new Y, and Y is "X is the new Y", solve for X.
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http://www.pcworld.com/printable/article/id,13193
Reads like a who's-who of PC World Advertisers...
Did they rate them by number of ads, or total dollars spent?
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 !
Ceci n'est pas une Signature !
Google's terms of service for Google Apps has some alarming boilerplate about the company not being responsible for lost data.
I think a lot of organizations will have qualms about sensitive files living on some Google server somewhere.
How can you do a Best of 2007 when we aren't even half way through 2007?????
It's like how I get my May issue in April, or my May 6 issue on April 29, or do my 45-minute hour with my consultant, or buy my 1.5'' x 3.5'' two-by-four, or buy my 1080p PS3 that downscales to 720p, or have a mortgage rate of 5.9% that really means a 6.1% annual interest rate, or learn about an inflation rate of 2.5% that jumps to 3.5% if I have to do anything crazy like buy food or energy.
(Btw, anyone know how to get Canon's powershot to upload to YouTube without making the sound out-of-sync?)
Apology to Ubuntu forum.
...just scrolled through the list to make sure vista wasnt there?
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.
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Don't forget that most of the articles in the May edition of Magazine were written back in March.
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The awards list reminds of a manure spreader: Not much accuracy but lots of coverage.
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I'm not saying that it's good or bad; I haven't used Vista at all so I have no basis to judge. I'm just kinda shocked that PCWorld didn't include the latest PC operating system in a top 100 list.
That's a conspicuous silence which speaks volumes about Vista.
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Well I'm not sure about the integrity of the article but there are a couple of things that stand out
Games:
Wii at no 3
XBox 360 elite at 18
PS3 nowhere to be seen.
The 360 has been out for over a year and I'm not sure how much 1080p and a bigger HDD make now, I guess in a couple of years when HD downloads become the norm this will make a difference. 1080p TVs have been quite rare in the UK until recently but I saw a very nice looking 40" Samsung the other day for about £1000 so I might treat myself at the end of the year.
(for the record I've got a 360 premium and a wii, I'll probably end up with a PS3 if FFXIII is exclusive but not before, too expensive at the moment!)
OSX Tiger at 9
Apple TV at 11
80GB iPod at 26
Macbook Pro at 82
No Zune
No Vista
I'm assuming that the HP DV900t 17" laptop runs Windows Media Center
iTunes at 61
WMP 11 at 91
So it looks like Apple "wins" over MS in the home media dept
Strangely on my XP box I use iTunes for music and WMP / VLC for Video. I just don't like Quicktime. No rational reason (now it plays video at full screen) but I just can't get on with it. It seems slow and unresponsive.
Still it looks like Apple were right to drop the computer from their name and go for the media market. I get the impression that they've always had the Pro market and so the move to consumer seems to be quite easy for them. (now if they'd just drop the phone bit from the iPhone and sell me a widescreen touch sensitive iPod I'd be a happy man)