Shopping for tech isn’t easy, so we’d like to offer some suggestions.
This is Editors’ Choice, a premium distinction given at CNET to a small group of the hundreds of products and services we’ve tested in dozens of categories this year. The list below represents our strongest buying recommendations for the 2023 holiday season, a label we reserve for the products and services that have made deep and lasting impressions on our expert testers and reviewers.
These are items that go above and beyond the competitive set, offering the most striking balance of value, utility and innovation. And just as the “best” gift for you is a personal decision, our Editors’ Choice picks have a personal component, too. In many cases, these are the products CNET editors would choose for ourselves and the loved ones on our shopping lists.
The end of the year, when new products drop and the 84-day holiday shopping season gets into full swing, is the perfect occasion to share the 18 products on the latest Editors’ Choice list, which is part of CNET’s annual Holiday Gift Guide. To create the list, CNET editorial leaders from across the team — from TV editors to phone reviewers to laptop testers — gathered for a series of conversations about the must-have products that needed to be on any list purporting to represent the best of the best. Through a combination of spirited debate, quantitative data captured in our testing lab and in the notebooks of our reporters, and our longtime expertise in seasonal shopping trends, we nailed down the list.
Then we debated again, nailed down the list again, updated it with newly released products we recently got our hands on, debated again, and so on. At the end of that process, our editors’ goal was to have the tightest, most comprehensive, no-skips list of flagship tech you’ll find anywhere. And while there’s always room for debate, there was no room for…
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