Hand Held Ebook Reader Sidekick 2

Dragon Naturally Speaking 9

I'd like to nominate Schoolhouse, a nifty little Mac app that has been instrumental in helping me keep track of my college assignments. I can even sync assignments to my iPod and calculate my grades. Just what I need.

http://www.loganscollins.com/schoolhouse/

If sales weren't enough evidence, the Nintendo Wii should be this year's product of the year. It's the people's gaming system.

Vista is okay, the new interface is nice but it really sows down the computer, by the way Vista was not released until 2007

oh, sorry

I'm gonna say the AppleTV for the reason that it will enable people to view content in many different ways than the standard distribution channels want to provide. Just Like the iPod it could well change the industry for the good.

I think that NeXTStep should be nominated. With out NeXT Apple might not be here today and the NeXTStep operating system was the foundational design of OS X.

With out NeXT and Steve Jobs coming to Apple. Other products like the iPod may not have come and with out that other products like the crappy Zune may not be here.

The newly released 8-core Apple Mac Pro with dual quad-core Intel Xeon ("Clovertown") processors running at 3.0 GHz.

As the guys over at MacDailyNews.com put it, "For when you absolutely, positively have to sequence the entire human genome before lunch."

This is some serious hardware.

What makes it even more drool-worthy:

It uses a "special version" (read: exclusive to Apple for now) of the "Clovertown" Xeon running at 3.0 GHz. The fastest "official" chip runs at 2.66 GHz. (See http://www.electronista.com/articles/07/04/05/mac.pro.special.xeon/)

Second, not only is this the only commercial box you can buy today with this chip, they even beat Dell on price, with a "comparable" (admittedly, pretty top notch) configuration.

Have a look:

From Dell:

2 X Quad Core Intel Xeon Processor X5355 2.66GHz, 2 X 4MB L2,1333
Genuine Windows XP Professional, SP2 with Media
512MB PCIe x16 nVidia Quadro FX 4500, Dual DVI or Dual VGA or DVI + VGA
4GB, DDR2 SDRAM FBD Memory, 667MHz, ECC in Riser (4 DIMMS)
48XCDRW AND 16XDVD+/-RW, w/Cyberlink PowerDVD and Roxio Creator
C3 All SATA drives, Non-RAID, 4 drive total configuration
500GB SATA 3.0Gb/s,7200 RPM Hard Drive with 16MB DataBurst Cache
SATA/SAS Integrated Card - For Connecting Internal Hard Drives
500GB SATA 3.0Gb/s,7200 RPM Hard Drive with 16MB DataBurst Cache
500GB SATA 3.0Gb/s,7200 RPM Hard Drive with 16MB DataBurst Cache
500GB SATA 3.0Gb/s,7200 RPM Hard Drive with 16MB DataBurst Cache
FREE! Dell 19 inch UltraSharp 1907FP Flat Panel
USB Entry Quietkey, No Hot Keys
Dell USB 2-Button Mechanical Mouse with Scroll
No Floppy Drive
No Speaker option
3 Year On-site Economy Service Plan

Price:$8,969

From Apple:

Two 3.0GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
4GB DDR2 SDRAM (4 x 1GB)
500GB HD 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s
500GB HD 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s
500GB HD 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s
500GB HD 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s
NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 512MB, Stereo 3D (2 x dual-link DVI)
Apple Cinema HD Display (23" flat panel)
Two 16x SuperDrives
Both Bluetooth 2.0+EDR and AirPort Extreme
Apple Keyboard and Mighty Mouse - U.S. English
Mac OS X - U.S. English
iLife
AppleCare Protection Plan for Mac Pro/Power Mac (w/or w/o Display) - Auto-enroll

Price: $8,789

I'm sure you could tweak the specs here and there, but keep in mind, only Macs can run MacOS X, Linux, and Windows software - the world's largest software library - natively and simultaneously.

Essentially, the new Mac Pro is the most POWERFUL AND COMPATIBLE PC on the market.