The 100 Best Products of 2005 from PC World magazine

When you’re buying hardware, software, and services, you want the top combination of power, features, reliability, and value. That’s what you’ll find in these World Class Award winners–starting with the Product of the Year.

What makes a product great? For 22 years, we’ve answered that question in the form of our World Class Awards. The products, technologies, and categories keep changing. But in 2005, as in 1983, great products meld practical features with innovation. They help you rather than annoy you. And they do it at a fair price. This year we chose 100 tools–the most in years–for work, home, and everywhere in between. Then we ranked them from 1 to 100, scrutinizing each product’s design, features, performance, innovation, and price. The resulting honor roll is as wide-ranging as today’s world of personal technology. (And 23 of our 100 winners have the best price of all: They’re free.)

In the following pages you’ll find our top picks grouped by category (for example, Security on page 4 and Digital Photography on page 8), as well as in ranked order from 1 to 100 on page 12. Here, we begin with our Product of the Year.

The Editors of PC World
From the July 2005 issue of PC World magazine

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