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Question: My PCs are pooped. In tech terms, they are on life support. To help me choose something new, I need reliable information on which computers other small business owners like the most. Techie reviews by nerds don't mean much to me. For my money, business owners who use the stuff daily and have paid for it with hard-earned dollars, are the best critics. Does anyone run "elections" for favorite small biz PCs? Answer: Bulls-eye! We admire your pluck when it comes to picking PCs. Indeed, the one source business owners have always trusted the most for advice on what to buy is other business owners. You'll find anecdotal advice from fellow entrepreneurs in chat rooms and small business sites at Yahoo!, AOL and OPEN (from American Express), as well as more specialized sites like SmallBizTechnology.com. Our favorite, though, is the annual Small Business Computing Excellence in Technology Awards, a kind of "PC Primary" where business owners themselves select the winners by popular vote. In this open competition, top tech picks are made by thousands of small business visitors to the E-Commerce Guide, Webopedia and SmallBusinessComputing.com Web sites. Voters weight factors such as price, functionality and reliability, and pick the machines that work best for them. In the major hardware categories most important to small business, Dell and HP were the clear leaders. That's no surprise, since both manufacturers work hard to deliver products pleasing to small business. In a bit of an upset, however, Apple products were finalists in both the desktop computer and notebook categories, showing that the Mac maker continues to make inroads into the small business market.
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Here are the desktop PCs, laptops (or notebook PCs), printers and multifunction devices that small business owners consider the best for their needs.
You'll find complete results covering 62 winners and finalists in 18 different categories on the small business channel at Internet.com. |
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