Best electronics/software of 2005

[Gokul43201]

This list was compiled by PC World, way back in July. Now that it's near the end of the year and new products have come out since, would anyone like to make changes to the top ten (even if it's a little hard to judge reliability over a short time-scale) ? In any case, which of the top products are you really happy with and deserve to belong there ? Also, which ones do you think do not deserve their spots ?

http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/article/0,aid,120763,pg,12,00.asp

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All Products Listed by Ranking

1. Mozilla Firefox Web Browser
2. Google Gmail Web Mail
3. Apple Mac OS X Version 10.4 (Tiger) Operating System
4. Belkin Wireless Pre-N Router and Notebook Network Card Wireless Networking
5. Dell Ultrasharp 2405FPW 24-Inch Wide-Screen LCD
6. Alienware Aurora 5500 Performance PC
7. Seagate USB 2.0 Pocket Drive Portable Hard Drive
8. Skype VoIP Service
9. Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT Digital SLR Camera
10. PalmOne Treo 650 PDA Phone
11. Zone Labs ZoneAlarm Antivirus Antivirus and Firewall Software
12. Mysoft Technology Maxthon Browser Plug-In
13. Rio Carbon Midcapacity MP3 Player
14. Webroot Window Washer 5.5 Utility
15. Maxtor H01R300 Shared Storage Drive Network Hard Drive
16. Google Search Engine
17. Netgear 54 Mbps Cable/DSL Wireless Travel Router Model WGR101 Travel Router
18. OnlyMyEmail Pro Spam Filter
19. Sony PlayStation Portable Handheld Gaming Device
20. NVidia GeForce 6600 GT Graphics Board
21. APC Back-UPS RS 800VA 120V Uninterruptible Power Supply
22. 2BrightSparks SyncBackSE Utility
23. Moon Software Password Agent Password Manager
24. HP Officejet 7210 All-in-One Multifunction Printer
25. Winternals Software ERD Commander Data Recovery Software
26. Ubuntu Linux 5.04 Linux Distribution
27. Epson PictureMate Photo Printer
28. Mozilla Thunderbird E-Mail Program
29. Cloudmark Anti-Fraud Toolbar Browser Security Plug-In
30. Vonage VoIP Service
31. Cloudmark SafetyBar Spam Filter
32. Adobe Photoshop CS2 Image Editor
33. The New York Times on the Web Web Site
34. Apple ITunes Media Player
35. Seagate USB/FireWire Hard Drive External Hard Drive

The new Xbox, perhaps ?

 

[chound]

I wouldn't want Skype to be there, it takes too much of resources and uses up a lot of bandwith. I voice chat for 1 hr the bandwith usage is 45 MB compared to yahoo's just 6 MB

 

[siddharth]

Google search engine at 16 is suprising. I would have thought that it should be at 1.
Under what criteria do they rate the products? I would think that Google search would blow away competetion for it's sheer usefulness.

 

[moose]

what the hell is an alienware pc on there for?
Why is Mac OS X on there? Because it doesn't suck AS BAD as the last ones?Firefox and Gmail definitely do deserve number 1 and 2 spots though. Google search isn't new, so I'm not sure if it could be as number 1. If google search is on there, why isn't wikipedia on there? :(

 

[ranger]

Was expecting to see SuSe Linux up there. Hey the fox is a #1, cool!

 

[moose]

Was expecting to see SuSe Linux up there. Hey the fox is a #1, cool!

So was I, it is way better than Mac OS X IMHO

 

[Gokul43201]

If google search is on there, why isn't wikipedia on there? :(

Wiki is at #60. How many people do think want to learn stuff ?