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Revealed! The 50 best tech products of 2013
pcworld ^ | December 29 2013 | Staff

Posted on 12/29/2013 9:14:21 PM PST by gooblah

What a year 2013 turned out to be. We saw all-new PC form factors, interesting innovations in mobile hardware, and an explosion of gadgets in the home tech and entertainment spaces. And after testing, beating on, and writing about hundreds of products, the editors at PCWorld and TechHive have carefully compiled a list of our 50 favorites.

(Excerpt) Read more at pcworld.com ...


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KEYWORDS: tech; techproducts

1 posted on 12/29/2013 9:14:21 PM PST by gooblah
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To: gooblah

I guess the Higgs Boson doesn’t count.


2 posted on 12/29/2013 9:19:10 PM PST by SpaceBar
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To: gooblah

I hate webpages you have to click 50 times in order to read a stupid list.


3 posted on 12/29/2013 9:21:34 PM PST by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: gooblah

Wow, as soon as saw Windows 8.1 included in this list I quit reading any further because I knew right then that the entire list was a meaningless joke.


4 posted on 12/29/2013 9:31:42 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: gooblah
bill gates photo: Bill Gates image0218.jpg

Wow, Xbox One at #7 and Playstation 4 doesn't even make the list. At least PC World knows who pays them.

5 posted on 12/29/2013 9:33:30 PM PST by Snickering Hound
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To: SpaceBar

Right on! The true innovators and creatives have been figuring out ways to get more mouse clicks on their web pages while the boring old engineers just make bigger and longer bridges and other useless junk.


6 posted on 12/29/2013 9:50:22 PM PST by Psiman (PS I am not a crackpot)
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To: gooblah

After 25 years using windows systems, I am sold on the new macbook pro and air.


7 posted on 12/29/2013 10:38:41 PM PST by Zathras
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To: Snickering Hound

Ps4 didn’t innovate one bit. Its a great console but no real innovation. XB1 however ties in with TV like no other console before it. Plus the voice commands are great.


8 posted on 12/29/2013 10:42:49 PM PST by for-q-clinton (If at first you don't succeed keep on sucking until you do succeed)
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To: catnipman

Actually the list looks pretty balanced to me...plenty of android windows and apple crap in the mix


9 posted on 12/29/2013 10:54:41 PM PST by for-q-clinton (If at first you don't succeed keep on sucking until you do succeed)
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To: gitmo
I hate webpages you have to click 50 times in order to read a stupid list.

Hear, hear! You know what would be a great innovation? It would be to get websites out of the cutesy sizzle business and back into presenting data in a clean, spare, digestible format. Slideshows are for people who are too stupid to read text. And presenting the same list of idiot advertisers fifty times instead of one only makes me fifty times more eager to never buy a thing they're selling.

Don't even start me on embedded video. I'm trying to read the sports scores and some jackass three screens down starts bleating about feminine hygiene products with the speakers at full blast. WTH?

10 posted on 12/29/2013 11:07:30 PM PST by Billthedrill
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And one that has to constantly resize and reposition because of the stupid ads that it has to insert alongside the content you’re looking at.


11 posted on 12/30/2013 3:24:43 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: for-q-clinton
Actually the list looks pretty balanced to me...plenty of android windows and apple crap in the mix

To the know-it-alls, if Linux or Apple is not listed 50 times, then the magazine must be paid off.

12 posted on 12/30/2013 4:50:13 AM PST by Erik Latranyi (When religions have to beg the gov't for a waiver, we are already under socialism.)
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To: Gaffer
And one that has to constantly resize and reposition because of the stupid ads that it has to insert alongside the content you’re looking at.

Which creates hundreds of "accidental" clicks, meaning the ads are effective!

The lie of marketing and advertising is clearer than ever.

13 posted on 12/30/2013 4:52:51 AM PST by Erik Latranyi (When religions have to beg the gov't for a waiver, we are already under socialism.)
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To: Erik Latranyi
Which creates hundreds of "accidental" clicks, meaning the ads are effective!

They aren't even 'clicks'. They are largely 'mouse-overs' now, and you only need pass the mouse pointer over them. Insidious a$$wipes if you ask me.

14 posted on 12/30/2013 6:00:56 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: Billthedrill

The CPU overhead on my Linux box dropped dramatically after installing a current HOSTS file. There is not a single solution to filter all the adware garbage that seeps into the browser, but the HOSTS file is a great start and improves security too. For those that don’t know, the HOSTS file works for Windows and Mac too.


15 posted on 12/30/2013 11:12:25 AM PST by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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To: TexasRepublic

You might try Open DNS (if you aren’t already). Some of this stuff seeps in from the provider.


16 posted on 12/30/2013 2:40:18 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: gooblah

I still put my 20 year old mechanical pencil and graph pad scratchbook on the list.


17 posted on 12/30/2013 2:48:09 PM PST by Organic Panic
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To: Erik Latranyi; Gaffer
Cartoonist Kliban penned this many years before the Internet got big. He was ahead of his time.


18 posted on 12/30/2013 2:57:46 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: FreedomPoster

HA! It wouldn’t take much to retitle that cartoon as “The Birth of Politicians”.


19 posted on 12/31/2013 7:52:20 AM PST by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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To: TexasRepublic

I second the motion to change wording to Politician.


20 posted on 12/31/2013 8:17:52 AM PST by MaxMax (Pay Attention and you'll be pissed off too! FIRE BOEHNER, NOW!)
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