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?"

Comments

Rubbish

[Edie O'Teditor]

Save it for December already!

Top 100 advertisers?

[lintocs]

Reads like a who's-who of PC World Advertisers...

Did they rate them by number of ads, or total dollars spent?

Re:Top 100 advertisers?

[thetable123]

Both you and Nikon are missing the point of the Nikon lens mount. The beauty of it is (or at least should be that you can take any lens of any Nikon and put it on any other Nikon. I have a 40 year old lens I can still shoot with it on my brand new Nikon. When you buy into a camera, you are buying into a lens system too. (That is unless the lenses are nothing to write home about.) The lens puts the picture on the film (or sensor), the body just holds everything else in place. Nikon lately has started missing the boat on the low to mid level cameras with compatibility. If I can't use my old Nikon lenses with a new Nikon camera, then I have no real reason to stick with Nikon.

As to TFA, I can't be the only one is is sick of "Top XX" articles from an (at best) mediocre advertising supplement.

Nikon D40X in 23rd

[denisbergeron]

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 !

how many people...

[brunascle]

...just scrolled through the list to make sure vista wasnt there?

Re:Where's Vista?

[peacefinder]

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.

Hmm

[satellite17]

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)