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SPECIAL
FEATURE JANUARY
18, 2001 by
David Nagel This year's Macworld Expo in San Francisco saw a number of innovative, new products for creative professionals, ranging from animation packages to video hardware to ... well, everything. Literally. This was probably the most pro-oriented Macworld in history, and no segment of the market was excluded. Audio, video, print and the Web were all represented by vendors showing off their latest goods. So how do you pick out the best stuff out of such a large and diverse crowd? Well, if you work for Creative Mac, you take your accumulated experience from the show, enter it into your TR3XJZ Computinating Analyzitron, insert the proper punch cards and emerge with a perfectly scientific, infallible matrix of products ranked in order and categorized for award presentation. We've also added a bit of multimedia to this year's awards, so do play along by clicking play on each of the audio clips below as you read along. And so, without further ado, the first winner is ... or appears to be ... Windows NT for Best Operating System. Wait a minute.... That can't be right! I think some of my peecee-using coworkers have been messing with my TR3XJZ! Oh, all that data entry time wasted! Somebody's going to get the Blue Screen of Death for this! Well, at any rate, I admit that I peaked at the list of winners a bit earlier todayprior to this malfeasanceand I think I can do this from memory. So, without much further ado, I present the winners of the Creative Mac Best of Show Awards for the Macworld SF Expo 2001. These winners were selected from the vendors at the show demonstrating NEW products, either released at the show or shipping soon after, but certainly nothing we've seen at previous showsall selected because of their innovation, excellence and potential contributions to the various creative fields they serve. We have but eight awards to give because, although there were dozens of great hardware and software offerings at the show, many had been shown elsewhere in various stages of development (with some having been promised since last April) and are not all that new. So here are the winners.
Apple
receives an Apple's
final award goes to DVD Studio Pro Post a comment or question on the Creative Mac World Wide User Forum!
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