Macworld 20th annual Editors’ Choice Awards: Hardware of the Year

By Barb Dybwad

Macworld has published this year's
Editors' Choice Awards.
In the Hardware of the Year category, we have a slew of winners:

  • Best Old School Keyboard: Matias's Tactile Pro Keyboard
  • Best Color Laserjet under $1000: HP's network-ready Color LaserJet 2550Ln
  • Best way to watch TV on your Mac: Elgato Systems' EyeTV 200
  • Best server hardware: Xserve G5

Not a huge surprise on that last one. It is worth noting Apple is
increasing its Xserve sales by leaps and bounds, as well as making some architecture leaps:

While its forays into consumer electronics have been getting all the headlines, Apple's moves in another
direction—the enterprise-level server business—are plaudit-worthy, too. This year, the company managed to cram the
high-heat G5 chip into its skinny Xserve rack-mounted server, and it expanded the capacity of its 3U Xserve RAID to
5.6 terabytes—upgrades that allow the Xserve to compete with Intel boxes in high-end markets.

Any of these winners bunk? Anybody have any favorite hardware that coulda been a contenda?

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