The 24th Annual Editors’ Choice Awards

Every year, Macworld editors select the Mac hardware and software that met our standards for quality, innovation, value, and usability. This year, we found 20 products worthy of our annual Editors’ Choice honors.

Gear Guide, part four: Gear for the desktopA Mac on your desk gives you a pretty powerful workstation-but also a pretty barren one. The products in the final installment of our Gear Guide can help spruce up your workspace while also helping you get more creative, store more data, and finish more work.
First look: Microsoft Arc MouseMicrosoft’s Arc Mouse takes a different and unique approach to mouse design. It looks like, well...an arc. And it actually folds so it doesn’t take up a lot of room in a laptop bag. In this Macworld Video, Jackie Dove takes a close look at the Arc Mouse. She’ll talk about its arc design, how it works, and how to modify the Arc Mouse’s settings on the Mac.

Review: Moshi Celesta keyboard If you’re looking for a Mac-styled keyboard but you’re not a fan of Apple’s own, Moshi’s Celesta is a stylish and functional alternative, albeit one that doesn’t offer as many special keys or as much customization as some other keyboards we’ve tested.
Review: Enhanced Visibility Keyboard VisiKey’s Wired Enhanced Visibility Internet Keyboard is unique among keyboards we’ve tested in that it’s designed for increased visibility. It also has a number of useful multimedia features and programmable buttons. However, the quality of its keys hampers an otherwise solid offering.
Review: Kinesis Freestyle Solo Keyboard for Mac Kinesis' Freestyle Solo is a true ergonomic keyboard with a good design, multiple mounting options, and lots of useful, made-for-Mac features.
Review: Razer ProType keyboard Razer's ProType is a unique keyboard that offers many specialized and programmable keys, as well as an integrated iPod dock. However, its size and system requirements may turn off some potential buyers.
Review: i-Rocks i-mini X-Slim keyboard i-Rocks' KR-6170M i-mini X-Slim offers surprisingly good typing feel for such an inexpensive keyboard, but you do get what you pay for: it offers none of the special features and extra keys that are common these days, and it has some key-layout oddities that may frustrate touch typists.

Geek Factor: Control the world Your Mac can already talk to all kinds of electronic devices. But there are plenty of other gizmos that your Mac can’t communicate with: motors, robots, external LCD displays, and sensors of all sorts. You’ll need a microcontroller to connect hobbyist hardware to your Mac. Brian Jepson shows you how it’s done.

Has the keyboard killed handwriting? Don Tennant's son is a talented 19-year-old and his handwriting looks like that of a four-year-old. Have computers destroyed the art of writing by hand?
Aluminum keyboard loses its luster Jonathan Seff changes his mind on Apple’s aluminum iMac keyboard design, finding it a bit too hard to type on.