World Class: Best Products of 1998

All products should be this good. After a wild, year-long ride culminating with the explosion of bombshell 400-MHz chips, the Pentium II processor winds up as the best of the best in 60 categories, including PCs, peripherals, software, and online services.

Product of the Year

Intel Pentium II

Intel's flagship chip proves that power doesn't have to come at a high price. In less than a year, the Pentium II revved up from 233 MHz to 400 MHz. Couple a 400-MHz PII chip with the new 100-MHz system bus, and you get machines that are 67 percent faster than PCs powered by lowly Pentium 233s (see "400-MHz Pentium IIs: The Great Leap Forward," June). At the same time, the cost of a PII chip has dropped drastically, as Intel felt the heat from AMD and Cyrix. The result: desktop PCs that look and feel like workstations. That's why the Pentium II is our Best Product of 1998.

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