2006 Macworld Best of Show Winners

By Geoff Duncan January 12, 2006

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The editors of the Macworld magazine and Web sites have presented the 2006 Macworld Best of Show awards to products at this year’s Macworld Expo in San Francisco, citing 14 products for innovation, excellence, and generating significant buzz amongst the assembled Mac multitude.

This year’s winners are:

Apple’s just-announced (and not yet shipping) MacBook Pro Intel-based Macintosh notebook computer.

Apple’s iLife ’06 application suite, including iMovie, iDVD, iPhoto, Garageband, and the just-released iWeb Internet authoring application.

Adobe’s forthcoming Lightroom professional photo production management application.

Advanced Technology Office’s forthcoming iSee 360i iPod accessory enables previous generations of Apple’s iPod to view photos, and both play and record video on a 3.6-inch color LCD screen.

Elgato’s EyeTV 2

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