Readers' Choice Awards 2012 - Time to Vote
Voting has ended, and the Readers' Choice Awards 2012 Winners have been announced.
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It's that time of year again; time for the annual Readers' Choice Awards. The nomination process is complete, and you, the readers of About: Macs, have selected the top contenders in each of the 8 Mac Readers' Choice Awards categories.
We went through each category and ensured that each nominee was appropriate for the category it was nominated in.
After weeding out a few nominees that didn't belong in any of the Mac categories, we set about picking the top nominees to move forward. We prefer to have up to five contenders in each category for the voting round. When there were ties (the same number of nominations), then we made the final decision.
With the finalists selected, it's time for you to vote for your favorites. Voting will continue until March 21, 2012, at which time the polls will close and we'll tally the results. The winners will be announced on March 30.
There will be a single winner in each of the 8 Mac Readers' Choice Awards categories. Each category has its own page, so you can see who the finalists are and vote for the one you think is the best. You can start voting with the next page, which is the Best Mac System Utility category, and then click through each page to vote. Or if you prefer, you can use the jump list below and vote in any order you choose.
You can vote once per day.
Remember, the winner takes all in each category, so vote early and often for the application or service you like the best. Be sure to ask your friends and family to vote as well; their vote can make the difference between winner and runner-up.
Readers' Choice Awards 2012 - Best Mac System Utility
The Best Mac System Utility category is open for voting. This category looks for utilities that enhance the features of OS X or provide features or services that are missing from the OS. System utilities can also provide easier access to existing features of OS X that may be hidden from the general user.
Which Mac system utility deserves to be called the best?
1Password is a password manager and strong password generator.
1Password can operate in two distinct ways: as a stand-alone application or as a password manager that's integrated with your browser. You can also use it in both forms at the same time. 1Password also offers versions for iOS, Android, and Windows devices that allow you to sync your password data across your devices.
1Password web site
DiskWarrior is a disk utility that can repair and recover files from a Mac drive that is failing. DiskWarrior uses a special process to repair a Mac's hard drive. It builds a new replacement directory structure on the drive, instead of trying to rebuild or patch the existing one.
DiskWarrior web site
TechTool Pro is a disk utility that can diagnose problems with your Mac's drives, perform repairs, clone drives, and test your Mac's hardware. TechTool Pro can also recover lost files, optimize your drive for performance, and monitor your local network performance.
TechTool Pro web site
CleanMyMac is an easy-to-use application that can find all of the leftover stuff that's clogging up your Mac and taking up precious drive space.
Once it finds them, CleanMyMac can remove these items and give both your Mac and your hard drive a little breathing room.
CleanMyMac web site
Little Snitch monitors your outgoing Internet connections and blows the whistle on any application that attempts to make a connection to the Internet behind your back. Little Snitch gives you the option of allowing the connection once, blocking the connection, or setting up the app to always allow connections to the Internet.
Little Snitch web site
Readers' Choice Awards 2012 - Best Mac Backup Application
The Best Mac Backup Application category is open for voting. This category looks for utilities that can be used to back up data from a Mac. It's a wide-open field, with utilities that can clone startup drives, applications that can perform complete backups, and everything in-between.
Which Mac backup application deserves to be called the best?
The Best Mac Backup Application contenders:
Carbon Copy Cloner provides just about all the tools you need to perform a backup of your Mac. It can perform full and incremental backups, create bootable clones of your startup drive, sync files, and schedule backups.
Carbon Copy Cloner web site
SuperDuper can back up your Mac's data in numerous ways, create bootable clones, and create full and incremental backups. Its Smart Update feature can incrementally update the clones you create.
SuperDuper web site
CopyCatX is a drive duplication application. It can quickly create bootable clones of your Mac's startup drive, or clones of any drive attached to your Mac, including those formatted for other file systems, such as Windows or Linux.
CopyCatX web site
Tri-Backup can create and incrementally update bootable clones of your Mac's drives. Tri-Backup also supports full and incremental backups that can be saved to any drive, even those located remotely on a network. Additionally, Tri-Backup can be used to sync files across multiple Macs.
Tri-Backup web site
Time Machine, built-in to every Mac since OS X Leopard, offers an easy-to-use interface to back up your Mac's data. Time Machine lacks many of the standard capabilities of other backup apps, such as the ability to create bootable clones, but its user interface, and the ease of restoring and finding a file in its backup archives, can't be beat.
Time Machine web site
Readers' Choice Awards 2012 - Best Mac Browser
The Best Mac Browser category is open for voting. This category asks a simple question: which web browser do you like to use or think is best? The Best Mac Browser category is the place where your favorite browser can earn bragging rights, at least for this year; next year may be another story.
Which Mac browser deserves to be called the best?
The Best Mac Browser contenders:
Safari is Apple's default browser and ships with every copy of OS X. Safari is generally fast and reliable, and has some unique features.
Safari web site
Firefox from Mozilla is one of the most popular web browsers on the market. It offers a great deal of capabilities, plus the ability to be customized through add-ons and extensions.
Firefox web site
Chrome from Google is one of the newer browsers on the market, and has already earned a following for being fast and offering a bit of a different take on what a browser should look like.
Chrome web site
Camino is an open source project based on Mozilla technology. Designed for OS X, it offers some of the best security and protection against malware.
Camino web site
Stainless is unique in supporting multi-process browsing, allowing you to have concurrent browsing sessions, each running independently of the other. This includes independent cookies, history, etc.
Readers' Choice Awards 2012 - Best Mac Application for Running Windows
The Best Mac Application for Running Windows category is open for voting. This category is for any application that allows you to run Windows, or any other OS, on your Mac.
Which Mac application for running Windows deserves to be called the best?
The Best Mac Application for Running Windows contenders:
Parallels was the first virtualization application that ran on Intel Macs.
Parallels lets you run Windows, and many other OSes, concurrently with OS X, so you can easily switch back and forth between them. Parallels has an easy-to-use interface and is kept up-to-date by the developer.
Parallels web site
VMware Fusion allows you to run multiple OSes on your Mac while you're also running OS X. Fusion has an easy-to-use interface and the developer provides regular updates to keep Fusion a top performer.
VMware Fusion web site
Oracle VirtualBox is an open source virtualization system for the Mac and other platforms. VirtualBox supports a wide range of guest OSes on the Mac, and has the added benefit of being free.
Oracle VirtualBox web site
Boot Camp is included with OS X and allows you to run Windows 7 on your Mac. Unlike the other contenders in this category, Boot Camp is not a virtualization application. Instead, it allows you to run Windows as a native OS directly on Mac hardware. The upshot is you should get the best performance, but without the ability to use both OS X and Windows at the same time.
Boot Camp web site
Readers' Choice Awards 2012 - Best Mac Word Processor
The Best Mac Word Processor category is open for voting. This category is for any application whose primary function is to provide word processing capabilities. This includes both standalone apps and apps that are part of a suite of tools.
Which Mac word processor deserves to be called the best?
The Best Mac Word Processor contenders:
Mariner Write is an elegant, efficient, and streamlined word processor designed from day one for the Mac. Even though it doesn't include the kitchen sink, it has most of the tools any writer could want.
Mariner Write web site
Pages from Apple is a word processor and page layout application rolled into one package. You can easily switch from writing to layout design and back again, and all with Apple simplicity.
Pages web site
Word, part of Microsoft Office for Mac 2011, is one of the most popular word processors for both the Mac and Windows.
Microsoft Word for Mac web site
Nisus Writer Pro is a word processor with a clean, smooth interface that lets you concentrate on writing. The interface is a cinch to customize, and creating and editing style sheets is just as easy. With features ranging from document management to watermarking, creating a table of contents, and more, Nisus Writer Pro is a word processing app for avid writers.
Nisus Writer Pro web site
Bean is a lightweight, efficient word processor that is fast and uncluttered; it's also free.
Bean web site
Readers' Choice Awards 2012 - Best Mac Image Editor
The Best Mac Image Editor category is open for voting. This category is for both professional- and consumer-level image editing apps.
Which Mac image editor deserves to be called the best?
The Best Mac Image Editor contenders:
Photoshop CS5 is the latest version of Adobe's ever-popular image editing app. Long the standard in photo editing, it has become a verb, as in "that image has been Photoshopped."
Photoshop CS5 web site
Photoshop Elements 10 is a scaled-back version of Photoshop meant for the amateur photographer. It was built using the core elements of Photoshop and provides a wide range of editing and image management tools.
Photoshop Elements 10 web site
Pixelmator is an image editing application created around OS X's built-in Core-Image API. Core Image provides pixel-level, real-time, non-destructive image editing, and Pixelmator uses Core-Image to its fullest. Pixelmator is fast, easy to use, and brings professional-quality editing tools to the Mac at consumer-level prices.
Pixelmator web site
Acorn is an easy-to-use image editor that has powerful features, including unique gradient tools, alpha channels, layers, and styles. Acorn provides feature-rich tools to professionals on a budget.
Acorn web site
Image Tricks is a delightful image manipulation app that uses OS X's Core Image and Quartz Composer to render images in new and stunning ways. Its best feature is how quickly it applies filters and renders new images.
Image Tricks web site
The Best Mac Home Theater App or Product category is open for voting. This category is for applications or products that allow you to use your Mac or Apple device within your home theater system. The category is open to both software and hardware.
Which Mac home theater app or product deserves to be called the best?
The Best Mac Home Theater App or Product contenders:
EyeTV is the name of both hardware for watching cable or over-the-air TV content on a Mac, and software that allows you to record, view, schedule, and manage your video library on your Mac. They can be purchased together or separately; for the purpose of voting, we will accept votes for any hardware that uses EyeTV software from ElGato.
EyeTV web site
The Mac mini is the smallest desktop Mac and is often used as the central control for a Mac-centric home theater system. When you combine a Mac mini with some of the other contenders in this category, you can create one powerful home entertainment system, and still get mail and surf the web.
Mac mini web site
Netflix Streaming, part of the Netflix video rental system, streams movies, TV shows, concerts, and other video content in its large library. Netflix can stream to just about any Apple device, including Macs and most iOS devices.
Netflix Streaming web site
Apple TV is a media player for home theater systems, currently in its second iteration.
Apple TV can stream audio, video, and images to your HDTV. You can also use Apple TV and the iTunes Store to rent, buy, or view free music, video, and audio content.
Apple TV web site
Plex is media center software that can run on a Mac. Once loaded, Plex turns your Mac into the center of content control, letting you play a wide range of audio and video from your Mac on the big screen.
Plex web site
The Best Mac Peripheral Reseller category is open for voting. This category is new this year, and is designed to recognize the best Mac or Mac peripheral reseller. The category is open to both brick-and-mortar and online resellers. The only requirements are that they sell Macs or Mac-related products, and are the best at what they do.
Which Mac peripheral reseller deserves to be called the best?
The Best Mac Peripheral Reseller contenders:
Small Dog Electronics is a Mac product reseller in Vermont. Small Dog has two retail outlets in Vermont and a long-standing web presence. Small Dog is well known for both the number of dogs found at their corporate offices (they allow pets to come to work), and the small dog figurines they include with every purchase.
Other World Computing has been a Mac peripheral reseller since 1988. Located in Illinois, OWC has long provided support for Mac users. They also support alternative energy production, currently running their corporate offices off a wind turbine they installed, producing more energy than they consume. OWC has a large catalog of Mac-related goods as well as specialty services, such as custom Mac configurations and performance enhancements.
New Egg is an online electronics retailer that carries a wide range of peripherals that are commonly used by Mac enthusiasts. Their online catalog is large, but with some perusing, you can find drives, memory, web cams, sound gear, and many more products that work with Macs.
Best Buy is a national consumer electronics retailer that may be better known for TVs, but they are also an authorized Apple retailer. Some Best Buy locations have a dedicated Apple shop within the store.
Voting has ended, and the Readers' Choice Awards 2012 Winners have been announced.
Original content continues:
It's that time of year again; time for the annual Readers' Choice Awards. The nomination process is complete, and you, the readers of About: Macs, have selected the top contenders in each of the 8 Mac Readers' Choice Awards categories.
How the Finalists Were Selected
We went through each category and ensured that each nominee was appropriate for the category it was nominated in.
After weeding out a few nominees that didn't belong in any of the Mac categories, we set about picking the top nominees to move forward. We prefer to have up to five contenders in each category for the voting round. When there were ties (the same number of nominations), then we made the final decision.
Time to Vote For The Readers' Choice Awards 2012
With the finalists selected, it's time for you to vote for your favorites. Voting will continue until March 21, 2012, at which time the polls will close and we'll tally the results. The winners will be announced on March 30.
There will be a single winner in each of the 8 Mac Readers' Choice Awards categories. Each category has its own page, so you can see who the finalists are and vote for the one you think is the best. You can start voting with the next page, which is the Best Mac System Utility category, and then click through each page to vote. Or if you prefer, you can use the jump list below and vote in any order you choose.
You can vote once per day.
Remember, the winner takes all in each category, so vote early and often for the application or service you like the best. Be sure to ask your friends and family to vote as well; their vote can make the difference between winner and runner-up.
About: Macs Readers' Choice 2012 Jump List:
- Best Mac System Utility
- Best Mac Backup Application
- Best Mac Browser
- Best Mac Application for Running Windows
- Best Mac Word Processor
- Best Mac Image Editor
- Best Mac Home Theater Application or Product
- Best Mac Peripheral Reseller
Readers' Choice Awards 2012 - Best Mac System Utility
The Best Mac System Utility category is open for voting. This category looks for utilities that enhance the features of OS X or provide features or services that are missing from the OS. System utilities can also provide easier access to existing features of OS X that may be hidden from the general user.
Which Mac system utility deserves to be called the best?
Voting has closed and the Readers' Choice 2012 winners have been announced
The Best Mac System Utility contenders:
1Password is a password manager and strong password generator.
1Password can operate in two distinct ways: as a stand-alone application or as a password manager that's integrated with your browser. You can also use it in both forms at the same time. 1Password also offers versions for iOS, Android, and Windows devices that allow you to sync your password data across your devices.
1Password web site
DiskWarrior is a disk utility that can repair and recover files from a Mac drive that is failing. DiskWarrior uses a special process to repair a Mac's hard drive. It builds a new replacement directory structure on the drive, instead of trying to rebuild or patch the existing one.
DiskWarrior web site
TechTool Pro is a disk utility that can diagnose problems with your Mac's drives, perform repairs, clone drives, and test your Mac's hardware. TechTool Pro can also recover lost files, optimize your drive for performance, and monitor your local network performance.
TechTool Pro web site
CleanMyMac is an easy-to-use application that can find all of the leftover stuff that's clogging up your Mac and taking up precious drive space.
Once it finds them, CleanMyMac can remove these items and give both your Mac and your hard drive a little breathing room.
CleanMyMac web site
Little Snitch monitors your outgoing Internet connections and blows the whistle on any application that attempts to make a connection to the Internet behind your back. Little Snitch gives you the option of allowing the connection once, blocking the connection, or setting up the app to always allow connections to the Internet.
Little Snitch web site
Voting has closed and the Readers' Choice 2012 winners have been announced
About: Macs Readers' Choice 2012 Jump List:
- Best Mac Backup Application
- Best Mac Browser
- Best Mac Application for Running Windows
- Best Mac Word Processor
- Best Mac Image Editor
- Best Mac Home Theater Application or Product
- Best Mac Peripheral Reseller
Readers' Choice Awards 2012 - Best Mac Backup Application
The Best Mac Backup Application category is open for voting. This category looks for utilities that can be used to back up data from a Mac. It's a wide-open field, with utilities that can clone startup drives, applications that can perform complete backups, and everything in-between.
Which Mac backup application deserves to be called the best?
Voting has closed and the Readers' Choice 2012 winners have been announced
The Best Mac Backup Application contenders:
Carbon Copy Cloner provides just about all the tools you need to perform a backup of your Mac. It can perform full and incremental backups, create bootable clones of your startup drive, sync files, and schedule backups.
Carbon Copy Cloner web site
SuperDuper can back up your Mac's data in numerous ways, create bootable clones, and create full and incremental backups. Its Smart Update feature can incrementally update the clones you create.
SuperDuper web site
CopyCatX is a drive duplication application. It can quickly create bootable clones of your Mac's startup drive, or clones of any drive attached to your Mac, including those formatted for other file systems, such as Windows or Linux.
CopyCatX web site
Tri-Backup can create and incrementally update bootable clones of your Mac's drives. Tri-Backup also supports full and incremental backups that can be saved to any drive, even those located remotely on a network. Additionally, Tri-Backup can be used to sync files across multiple Macs.
Tri-Backup web site
Time Machine, built-in to every Mac since OS X Leopard, offers an easy-to-use interface to back up your Mac's data. Time Machine lacks many of the standard capabilities of other backup apps, such as the ability to create bootable clones, but its user interface, and the ease of restoring and finding a file in its backup archives, can't be beat.
Time Machine web site
Voting has closed and the Readers' Choice 2012 winners have been announced
About: Macs Readers' Choice 2012 Jump List:
- Best Mac System Utility
- Best Mac Browser
- Best Mac Application for Running Windows
- Best Mac Word Processor
- Best Mac Image Editor
- Best Mac Home Theater Application or Product
- Best Mac Peripheral Reseller
Readers' Choice Awards 2012 - Best Mac Browser
The Best Mac Browser category is open for voting. This category asks a simple question: which web browser do you like to use or think is best? The Best Mac Browser category is the place where your favorite browser can earn bragging rights, at least for this year; next year may be another story.
Which Mac browser deserves to be called the best?
Voting has closed and the Readers' Choice 2012 winners have been announced
The Best Mac Browser contenders:
Safari is Apple's default browser and ships with every copy of OS X. Safari is generally fast and reliable, and has some unique features.
Safari web site
Firefox from Mozilla is one of the most popular web browsers on the market. It offers a great deal of capabilities, plus the ability to be customized through add-ons and extensions.
Firefox web site
Chrome from Google is one of the newer browsers on the market, and has already earned a following for being fast and offering a bit of a different take on what a browser should look like.
Chrome web site
Camino is an open source project based on Mozilla technology. Designed for OS X, it offers some of the best security and protection against malware.
Camino web site
Stainless is unique in supporting multi-process browsing, allowing you to have concurrent browsing sessions, each running independently of the other. This includes independent cookies, history, etc.
Stainless web site
Voting has closed and the Readers' Choice 2012 winners have been announced
About: Macs Readers' Choice 2012 Jump List:
- Best Mac Backup Application
- Best Mac Application for Running Windows
- Best Mac Word Processor
- Best Mac Image Editor
- Best Mac Home Theater Application or Product
- Best Mac Peripheral Reseller
Readers' Choice Awards 2012 - Best Mac Application for Running Windows
The Best Mac Application for Running Windows category is open for voting. This category is for any application that allows you to run Windows, or any other OS, on your Mac.
Which Mac application for running Windows deserves to be called the best?
Voting has closed and the Readers' Choice 2012 winners have been announced
The Best Mac Application for Running Windows contenders:
Parallels was the first virtualization application that ran on Intel Macs.
Parallels lets you run Windows, and many other OSes, concurrently with OS X, so you can easily switch back and forth between them. Parallels has an easy-to-use interface and is kept up-to-date by the developer.
Parallels web site
VMware Fusion allows you to run multiple OSes on your Mac while you're also running OS X. Fusion has an easy-to-use interface and the developer provides regular updates to keep Fusion a top performer.
VMware Fusion web site
Oracle VirtualBox is an open source virtualization system for the Mac and other platforms. VirtualBox supports a wide range of guest OSes on the Mac, and has the added benefit of being free.
Oracle VirtualBox web site
Boot Camp is included with OS X and allows you to run Windows 7 on your Mac. Unlike the other contenders in this category, Boot Camp is not a virtualization application. Instead, it allows you to run Windows as a native OS directly on Mac hardware. The upshot is you should get the best performance, but without the ability to use both OS X and Windows at the same time.
Boot Camp web site
Voting has closed and the Readers' Choice 2012 winners have been announced
About: Macs Readers' Choice 2012 Jump List:
- Best Mac System Utility
- Best Mac Backup Application
- Best Mac Browser
- Best Mac Word Processor
- Best Mac Image Editor
- Best Mac Home Theater Application or Product
- Best Mac Peripheral Reseller
Readers' Choice Awards 2012 - Best Mac Word Processor
The Best Mac Word Processor category is open for voting. This category is for any application whose primary function is to provide word processing capabilities. This includes both standalone apps and apps that are part of a suite of tools.
Which Mac word processor deserves to be called the best?
Voting has closed and the Readers' Choice 2012 winners have been announced
The Best Mac Word Processor contenders:
Mariner Write is an elegant, efficient, and streamlined word processor designed from day one for the Mac. Even though it doesn't include the kitchen sink, it has most of the tools any writer could want.
Mariner Write web site
Pages from Apple is a word processor and page layout application rolled into one package. You can easily switch from writing to layout design and back again, and all with Apple simplicity.
Pages web site
Word, part of Microsoft Office for Mac 2011, is one of the most popular word processors for both the Mac and Windows.
Microsoft Word for Mac web site
Nisus Writer Pro is a word processor with a clean, smooth interface that lets you concentrate on writing. The interface is a cinch to customize, and creating and editing style sheets is just as easy. With features ranging from document management to watermarking, creating a table of contents, and more, Nisus Writer Pro is a word processing app for avid writers.
Nisus Writer Pro web site
Bean is a lightweight, efficient word processor that is fast and uncluttered; it's also free.
Bean web site
Voting has closed and the Readers' Choice 2012 winners have been announced
About: Macs Readers' Choice 2012 Jump List:
- Best Mac System Utility
- Best Mac Backup Application
- Best Mac Browser
- Best Mac Application for Running Windows
- Best Mac Image Editor
- Best Mac Home Theater Application or Product
- Best Mac Peripheral Reseller
Readers' Choice Awards 2012 - Best Mac Image Editor
The Best Mac Image Editor category is open for voting. This category is for both professional- and consumer-level image editing apps.
Which Mac image editor deserves to be called the best?
Voting has closed and the Readers' Choice 2012 winners have been announced
The Best Mac Image Editor contenders:
Photoshop CS5 is the latest version of Adobe's ever-popular image editing app. Long the standard in photo editing, it has become a verb, as in "that image has been Photoshopped."
Photoshop CS5 web site
Photoshop Elements 10 is a scaled-back version of Photoshop meant for the amateur photographer. It was built using the core elements of Photoshop and provides a wide range of editing and image management tools.
Photoshop Elements 10 web site
Pixelmator is an image editing application created around OS X's built-in Core-Image API. Core Image provides pixel-level, real-time, non-destructive image editing, and Pixelmator uses Core-Image to its fullest. Pixelmator is fast, easy to use, and brings professional-quality editing tools to the Mac at consumer-level prices.
Pixelmator web site
Acorn is an easy-to-use image editor that has powerful features, including unique gradient tools, alpha channels, layers, and styles. Acorn provides feature-rich tools to professionals on a budget.
Acorn web site
Image Tricks is a delightful image manipulation app that uses OS X's Core Image and Quartz Composer to render images in new and stunning ways. Its best feature is how quickly it applies filters and renders new images.
Image Tricks web site
Voting has closed and the Readers' Choice 2012 winners have been announced
About: Macs Readers' Choice 2012 Jump List:
- Best Mac System Utility
- Best Mac Backup Application
- Best Mac Browser
- Best Mac Application for Running Windows
- Best Mac Word Processor
- Best Mac Home Theater Application or Product
- Best Mac Peripheral Reseller
The Best Mac Home Theater App or Product category is open for voting. This category is for applications or products that allow you to use your Mac or Apple device within your home theater system. The category is open to both software and hardware.
Which Mac home theater app or product deserves to be called the best?
Voting has closed and the Readers' Choice 2012 winners have been announced
The Best Mac Home Theater App or Product contenders:
EyeTV is the name of both hardware for watching cable or over-the-air TV content on a Mac, and software that allows you to record, view, schedule, and manage your video library on your Mac. They can be purchased together or separately; for the purpose of voting, we will accept votes for any hardware that uses EyeTV software from ElGato.
EyeTV web site
The Mac mini is the smallest desktop Mac and is often used as the central control for a Mac-centric home theater system. When you combine a Mac mini with some of the other contenders in this category, you can create one powerful home entertainment system, and still get mail and surf the web.
Mac mini web site
Netflix Streaming, part of the Netflix video rental system, streams movies, TV shows, concerts, and other video content in its large library. Netflix can stream to just about any Apple device, including Macs and most iOS devices.
Netflix Streaming web site
Apple TV is a media player for home theater systems, currently in its second iteration.
Apple TV can stream audio, video, and images to your HDTV. You can also use Apple TV and the iTunes Store to rent, buy, or view free music, video, and audio content.
Apple TV web site
Plex is media center software that can run on a Mac. Once loaded, Plex turns your Mac into the center of content control, letting you play a wide range of audio and video from your Mac on the big screen.
Plex web site
Voting has closed and the Readers' Choice 2012 winners have been announced
About: Macs Readers' Choice 2012 Jump List:
- Best Mac System Utility
- Best Mac Backup Application
- Best Mac Browser
- Best Mac Application for Running Windows
- Best Mac Word Processor
- Best Mac Image Editor
- Best Mac Peripheral Reseller
The Best Mac Peripheral Reseller category is open for voting. This category is new this year, and is designed to recognize the best Mac or Mac peripheral reseller. The category is open to both brick-and-mortar and online resellers. The only requirements are that they sell Macs or Mac-related products, and are the best at what they do.
Which Mac peripheral reseller deserves to be called the best?
Voting has closed and the Readers' Choice 2012 winners have been announced
The Best Mac Peripheral Reseller contenders:
Small Dog Electronics is a Mac product reseller in Vermont. Small Dog has two retail outlets in Vermont and a long-standing web presence. Small Dog is well known for both the number of dogs found at their corporate offices (they allow pets to come to work), and the small dog figurines they include with every purchase.
Other World Computing has been a Mac peripheral reseller since 1988. Located in Illinois, OWC has long provided support for Mac users. They also support alternative energy production, currently running their corporate offices off a wind turbine they installed, producing more energy than they consume. OWC has a large catalog of Mac-related goods as well as specialty services, such as custom Mac configurations and performance enhancements.
New Egg is an online electronics retailer that carries a wide range of peripherals that are commonly used by Mac enthusiasts. Their online catalog is large, but with some perusing, you can find drives, memory, web cams, sound gear, and many more products that work with Macs.
Best Buy is a national consumer electronics retailer that may be better known for TVs, but they are also an authorized Apple retailer. Some Best Buy locations have a dedicated Apple shop within the store.
Voting has closed and the Readers' Choice 2012 winners have been announced
About: Macs Readers' Choice 2012 Jump List:
- Best Mac System Utility
- Best Mac Backup Application
- Best Mac Browser
- Best Mac Application for Running Windows
- Best Mac Word Processor
- Best Mac Image Editor
- Best Mac Home Theater Application or Product
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