PC Pro announces Awards 2010 finalists

 

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By Tim Danton

Posted on 18 Aug 2010 at 07:30

PC Pro today announced the finalists in its reader-voted Reliability & Service Awards.

The Reliability & Service Awards are the most prestigious in the IT industry for good reason: they’re based entirely on our readers’ experience. These awards aren’t judged by the number of “votes” (all that rewards is the company with the largest client base) but on the quality of service and products our readers have received.

In each category, we ask our readers to rate the reliability of the products they have bought, customer support (if applicable), and how satisfied they are – in particular, if they would buy from that company again.

We combine all this information to produce a numeric rating, and the company with the highest rating wins. If any companies are hot on their heels, they win a Highly Commended award.

The companies who make our list of finalists have performed above the industry average, so to even make the final list in any of these categories is a fine achievement.

This year sees five new categories: Netbook Award, Storage Award, Best Mobile Broadband ISP, Education Product of the Year and Business Product of the Year.

Printer Award

• Brother, Canon, Epson, HP, OKI, Samsung

Monitor Award

• Acer, Asus, BenQ, Digimate, Eizo, Hanns.G, Iiyama, LG, Philips, Samsung

Smartphone Award

• Apple, HTC, Nokia, Research in Motion, Samsung, Sony Ericsson

Digital Camera Award

• Canon, Nikon, Panasonic, Pentax, Samsung, Sony

Wireless Router Award

• Apple, Belkin, Buffalo, Cisco, D-Link, DrayTek, Edimax, Linksys, Netgear, TP-Link

Storage Award

• Corsair, Crucial, Freecom, Fujitsu, HP, Kingston, QNAP, Samsung, Synology, Western Digital

Motherboard Award

• ASRock, Asus, Biostar, EVGA, Gigabyte, MSI

Graphics Card Award

• Asus, BFG, EVGA, Gainward, Gigabyte, HIS, PNY, Sapphire, XFX, Zotac

Desktop Computer Award

• Acer, Apple, CCL, Chillblast, CyberPower, Lenovo, Medion, Packard Bell, PC Specialist, Scan

Netbook Award

• Acer, Asus, HP, MSI, Samsung, Toshiba

Laptop Award

• Acer, Apple, Asus, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Packard Bell, Samsung, Sony, Toshiba

Best Online Retailer

• 7dayshop, Amazon, Broadband Buyer, CCL Online, John Lewis, More Computers, Novatech, Oyyy, Printerbase, Quiet PC, Scan

Best Web Host

• 1and1.co.uk, Easyspace, Fasthosts, Go Daddy, Heart Internet, Memset, Zen Internet

Best Broadband ISP

• BE Broadband, Eclipse Internet, Freedom2surf, O2, Plusnet, Post Office Broadband, Sky Broadband, Virgin Media, Zen Internet

Best Mobile Broadband ISP

• BT, O2, Orange, Virgin Mobile, Vodafone

Software of the Year

• Acronis True Image 2010, Adobe Creative Suite 5, Adobe Photoshop CS5, Adobe Photoshop Elements, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3, Google Android, Microsoft Office 2010, Microsoft Windows 7, Mozilla Firefox, Ubuntu 10

Education Product of the Year
Voted for by education professionals

• BBC Bitesize, Encyclopedia Britannica, Google Earth, Microsoft Office 2010, Moodle, OpenOffice

Business Product of the Year
Voted for by IT professionals

• Adobe Creative Suite 5, AutoCAD 2011, Dell Latitude E6400, DrayTek 2820n, HP ProLiant G6 servers, LogMeIn Pro, Microsoft Office 2010, Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, RIM BlackBerry Bold 9700, VMware ESX

In addition, there are two awards to recognise innovation in the past 12 months: one for environmental reasons, the other technological.

Environmental Innovator of the Year

• AMD, Google, Intel, Lenovo, Memset, Samsung, Scan, SoThin, VeryPC, VMware

Technology Innovator of the Year

• Adobe, AMD, Apple, Google, HTC, Intel, Kaspersky, Ruckus Wireless, Samsung, Swype

The winners for all these awards will be announced on the PC Pro website on Thursday 30 September.