Monthly "Best of the Best"
Every month "MacWorld" magazine features several top-ranked products for the Mac platform. Listed below are their suggestions.
November 2007
Color Laser Printer: Oki Data C6100dn ($749.00) Color with built-in duplexing!
Ink-Jet Photo Printer: Canon Pixma iP6700D ($115.00)
Desktop Firewire Drive: G-Drive Q 500GB ($245.00) FireWire 400/800, USB 2.0, and eSATA
Portable Drives: Rocbit 2B ($230.00) Built-in 40-bit encryption.
Flatbed Scanner: Epson Perfection V700 Photo ($500.00)
LCD Monitors:
24 inch: HP LP2465 ($599.00) 24" LCD for under a grand...
21 inch: NEC Multisync 2190UXi ($1500.00) The best color reproduction in it's class.
17 inch: Dell Ultrasharp 1707FP ($279.00) This one is a "no-brainer", it even has a built-in USB hub!
Dual-Layer DVD Burner (External): Sony DRX-830UL-T ($120.00) Burns everything except HD-DVD and Blu-Ray
The magazine "Maximum PC" publishes a small list every month, detailing the best rated PC hardware and accessories.
November 2007
High-end Video Card: XFX GeForce 880 Ultra ($659.99) DirectX 10 card, built for Vista.
Midrange Video Card: PowerColor HD2900 XT (512MB) ($399.99)
Soundcard: Creative Labs X-Fi XtremeGamer Fatal1ty Pro ($145.99)
Hard Drive: Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000 ($319.99) Hello, a terabyte (1TB) drive!!!
External Backup Drive: Western Digital My Book Pro II ($449.99) 1TB, 1.5TB, and 2TB versions available .
Portable USB Drive: Maxtor One Touch III 100GB ($139.99) USB 2.0, PC Only...
DVD Burner: Samsung SH-203B ($29.99) Plextor is off of the top, for now...
Hi-End LCD Monitor: Dell 2707FPW ($999.00) 27" wide-screen for a $1,000.00!
Budget LCD Monitor: Samsung SyncMaster 206BW ($299.99) 19" LCD, a little pricy but not bad at all.
Socket AM2 Athlon 64 Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-M59SLI-S5 ($174.99) Who wouldn't want a backup BIOS?
Socket 775 Core 2 Duo Motherboard: Asus Striker Extreme ($349.99) Kind of pricy for a mobo!
HD-Based MP3 Player: Apple iPod ($249.00 for the 80GB model, $349.00 for the 160GB model)
Flash-Based MP3 Player: SanDisk Sansa Connect 4GB ($149.99) This thing does stuff you wish your iPod could!
7.1 Speakers: Gigaworks S750 ($299.95) If you must... I can't see spending three hundred bucks on speakers.
2.0 Speakers: Audioengine 5 ($349.99) Whatever...
Mid-tower case: Antec Nine Hundred ($119.99) Nice case! Top-side USB ports...
Full-tower case: Cooler Master Cosmos ($199.99)
Page last updated on October 23, 2007