Price: $5,280
Editors’ choice: 4/5
Maingear
Shift Super Stock (Corei7-3930K)
Maingear can never be accused of going
halfway when it comes to gaming desktops. The Shift Super Stock is dazzling,
loaded with an overclocked Intel Extreme Edition CPU and three AMD Radeon HD
7970 video cards, which together help it deliver the kind of legendary frame
rates gamers crave.
Dell XPS One 27
Price: $1,999
Editors’ choice: 4.5/5
Dell
XPS One 27
The dell XPS One 27 high-end all-in-one PC
includes almost every technology and feature we’re looking for in a compact and
stylish chassis. And it has excellent performance, thanks to its high-power
Intel Core i7 processor and Nvidia graphics. Media enthusiasts, this is the
all-in-one desktop you want.
Eurocom Scorpius
Price: $5,297
Editor’s choice: 4/5
This 17-inch monster is the fastest gaming
laptop we’ve ever seen, boasting the latest Intel Core i7 Extreme Edition
processor, dual high-end Nvidia GeForce graphics controllers, and two
high-capacity solid-state drives. Its feature set is as good as it gets. The
downsides? You’ll have to shell out over $5,000 for this kind of performance,
and its travel weight of 12.9 pounds is down-right prohibitive.
Apple MacBook Pro
13-inch with Retina Display
Price: $1,999
Editors’ choice: 4.5/5
Apple’s latest iteration of its MacBook Pro
gives the insanely picky visual artist a new, more portable sidekick. It’s
pricey, but it is the most portable machine for those with projects that need
all those pixels on the screen and the powerful components to back them up. If
you absolutely must have a display with greater than HD resolution that you can
take with you anywhere, you want this laptop.
New Apple iPad
Price: $499
Editors’ choice: 4.5/5
The new iPad displays a spectacular
selection of apps on the best screen in the business. Once you’ve seen text on
this 2,048-by-1,536-pixel screen, it’ll be hard to go back to anything jaggier.
More important, Apple’s array of apps designed for tablets, especially games,
dwarfs what’s available on other tablet platforms.
Amazon Kindle Paperwhite (Wi-Fi)
Price: $119
Editors’ choice: 4.5/5
Amazon really nailed it with the Kindle
Paperwhite, the company’s first ebook reader with a built-in light for reading
in the dark. The new screen has more contrast, and is brighter, more responsive
to the touch, and faster to refresh than the Barnes & Noble’s GlowLight
equipped Nook. Amazon also finally revamped the home screen, making it much
more inviting, and Amazon’s Kindle eBook ecosystem remains second to none.
Apple iPhone 5 (AT&T, Sprint, Verizon)
Price: $199
Editors’ choice: 4.5/5
Samsung Galaxy S III
Price: $199 and up
Editors’ choice: 4/5
Looking for the best smartphone in America?
Apple wins on body design and app selection, while Samsung’s phone has stronger
GPS performance, better voice quality and more user-configurable options. It’s
difficult to go wrong with either.
Garmin nuvi 3590LMT
Price: $399.99
Editors’ choice: 4/5
Don’t call the standalone GPS device
category dead yet – especially with overachieving models like the Garmin nuvi
3590LMT. You get a sharp, bright 5-inch capacitive touch screen that displays
smooth map animations and even graded terrain data. Garmin’s routing and
point-of-interest (POI) search algorithms continue to stop the industry. And
the new split-screen lane assistance views make it easier than ever to follow
complex highway interchanges.
