SAN FRANCISCO, December 3, 2001 — Macworld magazine, IDG’s premier Macintosh publication and Web site, has named the winners and finalists of its prestigious seventeenth annual Editors’ Choice Awards for 2001.
The Eddy Awards, the Apple Macintosh industry’s highest distinction for breakthrough product development, are being given to the year’s top software and hardware products in 25 categories. The Macworld editors surveyed every Mac product on the market from November 1, 2000 to November 1, 2001, evaluating them for their overall quality as well as their utility, innovation, and elegance. A celebration party will be held in honor of all the award recipients during the week of Macworld Conference & Expo San Francisco, which begins Monday, January 7th, 2002.
“It was a year of transition as the industry moved to adopt Apple’s new operating system, Mac OS X,” stated Rick LePage, Macworld ‘s Editor in Chief. “However, we were thrilled to see so many great products introduced from new and established Macintosh developers.”
Macworld magazine’s 2001 Editors’ Choice Award winners and finalists are:
Best Illustration Software Zbrush 1.2, Pixologic (Winner) Illustrator 10, Adobe Systems ToonBoom Studio, Toon Boom Technologies
Best Image-editing Software Photoshop Elements, Adobe Systems (Winner) Fireworks 4, Macromedia Test Strip 3.1, Vivid Details
Best Web Development Software BBEdit 6.5, Bare Bones Software (Winner) Dreamweaver 4, Macromedia LIFT Onsite 2.0.1, UsableNet
Best Business Productivity Software Office v.X, Microsoft (Winner) mimio 1.5, Virtual Ink Virtual PC 4, Connectix
Best Data Management Software AccountEdge 2.0, MYOB US (Winner) FileMaker Pro 5.5, FileMaker Quicken 2002 Deluxe, Intuit
Best Digital Camera PowerShot S110 Digital Elph, Canon (Winner) Coolpix 995, Nikon PowerShot G2, Canon
Best Display Formac Gallery 1740, Formac (Winner) electron22blue III, LaCie VB50HRTV, Viewsonic
Best Education Software Robolab 2.5, Pitsco Lego Dacta (Winner) Kid Pix Deluxe 3.0, Broderbund World Book 2002 Mac OS X, World Book
Best Game Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2, Aspyr Media (Winner) Escape from Monkey Island, Aspyr Media Rogue Spear, MacSoft
Best Printer Stylus C80, Epson (Winner) HL-1670N, Brother International Stylus Photo 820, Epson
Best Productivity Utility QuicKeys X, CE Software (Winner) FileGuard 4.0, Intego StuffIt Deluxe 6.5, Aladdin Systems
Best Science/Engineering Software VectorWorks 9, Nemetschek (Winner) CalculationCenter, Wolfram Research CrystalMaker 5.0, CrystalMaker Software
Best 3-D-Graphics Software LightWave 3D 7b, NewTek (Winner) Cinema 4D XL 7.1, Maxon Computer Maya for Mac OS X 3.5, Alias|Wavefont
Best Acceleration Product GeForce3, NVIDIA (Winner) AEC-6880M/ATA-133 RAID, ACARD Encore/ST G4 Duet, Sonnet Technologies
Best Development Software REALbasic 3.5.1, REAL Software (Winner) Interface Builder, Apple Computer Script Debugger 3.0, Late Night Software
Best Digital Video Software Final Cut Pro 2.0.2, Apple Computer (Winner) DVD Studio Pro 1.1, Apple Computer Premiere 6.0, Adobe Systems
Best Input Device Cintiq, Wacom (Winner) Cordless MouseMan Optical, Logitech Turbo Mouse Pro Wireless, Kensington Technology
Best Multimedia Product MOTU 828, Mark of the Unicorn (Winner) Formac Studio, Formac Reason 1.0, Propellerhead Software
Best Personal Digital Assistant Palm m505, Palm (Winner) Palm m125, Palm Visor Edge, Handspring
Best Storage Product DVR-A03, Pioneer (Winner) DiskOnKey, M-Systems VXA-1 FireWire, Ecrix
Best System Utility BrickHouse 1.1b6 , Brian Hill (Winner) Drive 10, Micromat Unsupported Utility X 2.0, Ryan Rempel
Hardware Product of the Year Titanium PowerBook G4, Apple Computer
Software Product of the Year Office v.X, Microsoft
Technology of the Year SuperDrive, Apple Computer and Pioneer
Impact Award Mac OS X 10.1, Apple Computer