Top 100: The Top of the Heap
Three of our charts boast brand-new Best Buys this month. Six 21-inch monitors debut on our Top 10 Monitors chart, including a new Best Buy, the Iiyama Vision Master Pro 511. On our over-$500 Top 10 Digital Cameras chart, the $779 Epson PhotoPC 3100Z hits the number two spot. Finally, the MicronPC Millennia Max XP2 tops the power section of our Top 15 Home PCs chart with outstanding performance and a competitive $2397 price.
See "Your Guide to the Top 100" for details on how we compile all our charts, and be sure to check out our roundup of the top CD-RW drives.
Freelance writers Richard Jantz, Dan Littman, Joel Strauch, and Carla Thornton, and PC World editors Richard Baguley, Seán Captain, Rebecca Freed, Alexandra Krasne, Heather Morra, Kalai Murugesan, Kalpana Narayanamurthi, Melissa J. Perenson, and Alan Stafford contributed to this month's Top 100 section. Ulrike Diehlmann, Robert James, Elliott Kirschling, Jeff Kuta, Danny W. Lam, Tony K. Leung, and Thomas Luong of the PC World Test Center performed testing, with support from Julio Giannobile and Julian Weatherby.
Guide to Star Ratings
What are the Star Ratings in the Top 100 charts?
Last month, PC World launched a new five-point Star Rating system, which assesses a product's overall quality and performance.
Every time we review a new product, it will be assigned a star rating. These star ratings reflect our opinion of a product at the time we reviewed it. The rating won't change or be updated unless bug fixes or major updates compel us to take another look at the product, or unless we do a more extensive follow-up review. In subsequent issues, a date will accompany these ratings indicating how long ago a product received its rating. Products that we tested before the September 2001 issue will not have star ratings.
In addition, the overall number rating and the Best Buy distinction will continue to appear in our charts. Both the overall rating and the chart rankings take price into account and will continue to work in the same way as they have in the past.