PC Magazine - USA (2019-12)

D

ecember? Already? It’s just about time to

bring 2019 to a close and enter a brand-

new decade. (And don’t @ me about when

the new decade actually starts: Every year is the

start of a new decade, technically.) One way to

start is to go back ten years and see what we were

excited about then.

Here’s what we wrote about the year 2009 in our

story “The Best Tech Products of 2009”:

Laptops got even smaller and cheaper (in the

form of netbooks) and desktops went multicore in

a big way as well as shed towers for all-in-one

designs. Phones became even more powerful and

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iPhone. Camera LCDs got larger, lenses got

wider, and operating speeds got faster. The

software world stayed exciting with the

anticipated OS releases of Microsoft Windows 7

and Apple’s Snow Leopard, as well as browsers

like Google Chrome 3 and Internet Explorer 8.

Takes you back, doesn’t it? It’s strange to think the

iPhone was a pretty new phenomenon and that the

age of the smartphone had just begun. Netbooks

were the vanguard of the new light-laptop fad, and

we lauded manufacturers for including “forward-

thinking features such as HDMI ports.”

The 5.1-megapixel Canon EOS Rebel T1i SLR was

“a game changer.” And manufacturers other than

Apple started building all-in-one desktops.

This

Awesome

Year in Tech

CAROL MANGIS

FIRST WORD