dimanche 11 novembre 2012

The Best Products of 2012

A lire sur:  http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2411779,00.asp

These are the 99 products and services that we deemed the best of the best this year. Before you start your holiday shopping, consult this list.
Best Products of the Year 2012 We take the word "best" very seriously at PCMag. Over the course of a year, we review and rate over 2,000 products in PC Labs. We look at countless systems, peripherals, cameras, phones, mobile devices, gadgets, websites, software titles, games, mobile apps, networking products, and more. A lot of them don't score that well, but many do. And, of course, we share all of that information with you.
Typically, you'll find the techie wheat among the digital chaff by looking for our Editors' Choice award, given only to what we consider the best-in-class products. Even that seal of approval can't tell the entire tale, though. Because, really, there can be only one product (maybe two) that is truly best in its category. So, at this time every year, our editors and analysts lock themselves away in a conference room to discuss (and sometimes bicker about) those thousands of products. The goal is to determine which, among quite a few worthy candidates, are actually best in every category. And there are a lot of categories.
The results of that cage match are below. We chose 99 products and services. Eighty seven of them earned our Editors' Choice Award. Four of the products in this list (LastPass 2.0, the Olympus OM-D E-M5 high-end CILC camera, Adobe Photoshop CS6, and the Synology DiskStation DS1812+ NAS device) earned five stars. That's a perfect score, a rare accomplishment. This rating is not given lightly: It means our analysts deem the product bulletproof. A large number (48) of the rest earned a highly-respectable rating of 4.5 stars.
To be eligible for consideration in this story, a product had to be reviewed by the analysts in PC Labs between November 1, 2011 and October 26, 2012. Our experts use industry-standard benchmarks and several in-home tests to get quantifiable, reliable, and reproducible results. The only way for a product to make it into The Best Products of 2012 was to have been put through its paces and chosen as the best of the best.
With the holidays just around the corner, it's safe to say that any of the products included here would make an excellent gift. So, make sure you have this at hand as you begin your holiday preparations.
And now, we present PCMag's Best Products of 2012...
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