Best Hardware of 2015 – The KitGuru Editorial Awards

In a year that saw the launch of Skylake and the Nano, we have been impressed by the amount of work that technology companies are putting into getting ready for 2016/17. In terms of ‘new tech', 2015 will probably go down as a plateau year.

Microsoft launched Windows 10, which at least meant that it had listened to its audience. Offering it as a free upgrade was fine, but no intelligent person volunteers to install a new OS over the top of an old OS and reports from inside Microsoft say that the company is disappointed at take up rates for its free OS upgrade. Making it easier for existing owners of Windows 7/8 to download the new OS and install it onto their system on a new SSD would probably go a long way to boosting the numbers but, so far, this kind of intelligent upgrade has not marketed strongly to users.

So what will the new year hold that is so exciting?

The push toward VR looks like it will demand a lot more from your hardware. nVidia's Pascal range of cards was originally scheduled for a Computex launch, but we're now hearing rumours that at least some of the cards might be brought forward for the new VR headset launches.

New memory technologies will make high-end computing more fun and we're all looking forward to the Haswell-E successors that are rumoured to be making a show in Taipei around the start of June.

For all of these launches – and many more besides – we believe that 2016 will be one of the most exciting years ever for technology.

At the same time, we are proud of the way that KitGuru's audience continues to grow and that we have such an amazing and loyal following on social media – with 315,000 people regularly tuning in to check out the latest news, reviews and gossip on Facebook alone.

In 2015, that family became much larger as we co-founded the European Hardware Association – combining 9 of the largest independent hardware sites from across the continent. We had our first European Hardware Awards ceremony at the prestigious Taiwan International Conference Centre at the start of Computex, and the winners of the first ever pan-European Community Hardware Awards will be announced at the start of January 2016.

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KitGuru Says: We continue to find technology interesting and exciting – and we really appreciate all your support. Please keep your comments coming on Facebook and we always want to see more of your systems – to see what you guys are doing with the hardware that we test and present. We wish you and your family a very Happy New Year for 2016!

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