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PC Pro Awards finalists 2008
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Around 15,000 people voted this year, giving the PC Pro Awards an unmatched insight into the level of customer service UK technology buyers receive.
Reliability & Service Awards
The Reliability & Service Awards tap our readers' experiences with manufacturers, giving an unbiased account of the reliability of the products they bought, the customer support they received and whether they would buy from that company again. Read on for the shortlisted companies in each product category.
Laptop Award: Acer, Apple, Asus, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Samsung, Sony, Toshiba
Desktop PC Award: Acer, Dell, HP, Medion, Novatech, PC Specialist
Digital Camera Award: Canon, Casio, Fujifilm, Nikon, Olympus, Panasonic, Pentax, Samsung, Sony
Printer Award: Brother, Canon, Epson, HP, Konica, Minolta, Lexmark, Samsung
Monitor Award: BenQ, Dell, Hanns G, Iiyama, LG, NEC, Philips, Samsung, Sony, ViewSonic
Smartphone Award: Apple, HTC, LG, Nokia, RIM, Samsung, Sony Ericsson
Wireless Router Award: 3Com, Buffalo, D-Link, Draytek, Linksys, Netgear, Zyxel
Motherboard Award: Abit, AOpen, Asus, Gigabyte, MSI
Graphics Card Award: Asus, BFG, EVGA, Gigabyte, MSI, PNY, Sparkle, XFX
Best ISP: Be Internet, Demon Internet, Eclipse, Freedom 2Surf, Madasafish, Nildram, O2, PlusNet, Sky, Virgin Media, Zen Internet
Best Web Host: 1and1.co.uk, Fast2host,
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Best Online Retailer: 7dayshop, Amazon, Apple, CCL, Misco, Morecomputers.com, Novatech, Play.com, Printerbase, Quiet PC, Scan, SVP
Software of the Year: The ten pieces of software that have most impressed PC Pro's readers during 2008 (note that Firefox 3 was released too late to make the voting). The shortlist is:
Acronis True Image, Adobe Creative Suite, Adobe Photoshop Elements, AVG Free Edition, CCleaner, Diskeeper, Google Earth, Kaspersky Internet Security, Mozilla Thunderbird, Serif PagePlus
Hardware of the Year: The hardware that has most impressed PC Pro's experts this year. The shortlist follows:
Apple iPhone 3G, Apple MacBook Air, Asus Eee PC, Chillblast Fusion Juggernaut, Dell XPS One, Intel Atom, Lenovo X300, Logitech Squeezebox Duet, Nokia E71, Sony VAIO SR-Series
Editorial Awards:
There are three editorial awards, which are decided on purely by the PC Pro editorial team (including the Real World Contributing Editors): the Real World Business award goes to the company which has made the biggest impact on business computing in the last year; the Technology Innovator award seeks to find the company which has introduced the most groundbreaking technology in 2008; and the Environmental Innovator of the Year, which rewards companies that make innovative "green" systems or have significantly reduced their own or their customers' carbon dioxide output. Read on for this year's shortlists.
Technology Innovator: AMD, Apple, Asus, DisplayLink, Draytek, Gigabyte, Intel, Microsoft, RIM, Symantec
Environmental Innovator: BT Global Services, Dell, D-Link, Gigabyte, Google, gm2 Logistics, Memset, Tranquil PC, Very PC, VMware
Real World Business: Draytek, HP, Intel, Lenovo, Microsoft, NetSupport, RIM, Sophos, Very PC, VMware
