Awards of Distinction Thousands of products and technologies are announced each year, but few manage to fulfill the potential of their spec sheets. Yet every year, a select group of hardware and software delivers innovations that reset our expectations by allowing us to work in new ways. Each year, we honor those top-tier products with the BYTE Editors' Choice Awards. Awards of Excellence showcase technical innovation that sets a new standard for a product class. Awards of Distinction single out products that are important from a technical, features, or price standpoint.
Awards of Merit go to products worth noting for an interesting feature or price.
Awards of Distinction Adobe Photoshop 4.0 Image manipulation has never been easier thanks to more sophisticated layering capabilities. The first PowerMac to finally bring multiprocessing to high-end applications. Multimedia on the road doesn't get much better than this, thanks to the 1400's large display, CD-ROM drive, and easy expansion capabilities. BeBox Inexpensive hardware plus a multithreaded operating system provide a great platform for multimedia development. T Highly configurable Pentium notebook means we can finally build the portable we want to satisfy our individual needs.