PC Pro Reliability and Service Awards 2003

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By Alun Williams

Posted on 2 Oct 2003 at 16:18

You made your choice and you cast your vote - and a big thank you once again to all the readers that completed the PC Pro Reliability and Service survey for 2003. It's your feedback that makes the awards possible.

Following the awards ceremony last night at the Dorchester Hotel on Park Lane, we can now announce the results. (You can also see pics from evening.)

And as well as the Reliability and Service Awards, determined by you the readers, there are also the Editorial Awards, decided by the PC Pro editorial team.

Without further ado, here are the categories (winners and nominees)

Reliability and Service Awards

PC
Evesham Technology (Joint winner)
IBM (Joint winner)
Dell, Fujitsu Siemens, Hewlett-Packard, Mesh (Finalists)

Notebook
IBM (Winner)
Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Sony, Toshiba (Finalists)

Monitor
NEC-Mitsubishi (Winner)
Iiyama, LG Electronics, Philips, Samsung, Sony (Finalists)

Printer
Hewlett-Packard (Winner)
Brother, Canon, Epson, Lexmark, Samsung (Finalists)

PDA
Palm (Winner)
Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Sony (Finalists)

Online Vendor
Crucial (Winner)
Amazon, Dabs.com, Play, Scan, Tesco (Finalists)

ISP Dial-up
Virgin (Winner)
AOL, FreeUK, NTL, Telewest Blueyonder, Tiscali (Finalists)

ISP Broadband
PlusNet (Winner)
AOL, BT Openworld, NTL, Pipex, Telewest Blueyonder (Finalists)

Editorial Awards

Most Wanted Hardware
Toshiba Portégé R100 (Winner)
LG Flatron L2320A, iPAQ 2210 Pocket PC, Linksys Wireless-G Broadband Router, Shuttle XPCs, Sony TRV950 Camcorder (Finalists)

Most Wanted Software
PowerQuest Drive Image 7 (Winner)
Adobe Acrobat 6, Agnitum Outpost Personal Firewall Pro 2, Macromedia Studio MX 2004, Microsoft Office 2003, Pinnacle Edition 5 (Finalists)

Extreme
Asetek Waterchill Water Cooling System (Winner)
Antec Sonata Case, Lian Li Aquarium Case, Prometeia Mach 2 Cooling System, QuietPC Hush Kit, Zalman CNPS7000-Cu Heatsink (Finalists)

Real World
Google (Winner)
Copernic Agent Professional 6, Infragistics Net Advantage, Intel Centrino Mobile Technology, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition (Finalists)

Enterprise
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (Winner)
AMD Opteron, HP StorageWorks Ultrium 460e, Microsoft Exchange Server 2003, RIM BlackBerry, SonicWALL PRO 330 (Finalists)

Labs
Gigabyte (Winner)
Carrera SSC, Eizo, JAL, Mesh, NEC-Mitsubishi (Finalists)

Technology Innovator
AMD (Winner)
ATI, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Nvidia (Finalists)

Sponsors of the event at the Dorchester were HP, Iiyama and Sony.

See also

Pictures from the evening