Wow, Xbox One at #7 and Playstation 4 doesn't even make the list. At least PC World knows who pays them.
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.
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I guess the Higgs Boson doesn’t count.
I hate webpages you have to click 50 times in order to read a stupid list.
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.
Wow, Xbox One at #7 and Playstation 4 doesn't even make the list. At least PC World knows who pays them.
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.
After 25 years using windows systems, I am sold on the new macbook pro and air.
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.
Actually the list looks pretty balanced to me...plenty of android windows and apple crap in the mix
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?
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.
To the know-it-alls, if Linux or Apple is not listed 50 times, then the magazine must be paid off.
Which creates hundreds of "accidental" clicks, meaning the ads are effective!
The lie of marketing and advertising is clearer than ever.
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.
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.
You might try Open DNS (if you aren’t already). Some of this stuff seeps in from the provider.
I still put my 20 year old mechanical pencil and graph pad scratchbook on the list.
HA! It wouldn’t take much to retitle that cartoon as “The Birth of Politicians”.
I second the motion to change wording to Politician.
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