South Africa’s SME and consumer resellers have cast their votes in the 2013 Channelwise Awards, and named their favourite vendors.
In the Consumer category, Seagate took top honours as the disk drive vendor of choice, with Nvidia as the graphics cards supplier. Intel was named as the winner of both the Processor and Motherboard categories, while Kingston also won two awards, for memory and USBs.
The overall winner of the Components category was Transcend, followed by Intel and Kingston.
In the Mobile Computing category, Samsung was named as the top vendor for smartphones and tablets, with HP taking the honours for notebooks and ultrabooks.
The top vendor overall in Mobile Computing was HP, with Samsung and Apple as runners-up.
HP was likewise the favourite overall Personal Computing vendor, having won the media PCs, value PCs and business/commercial PCs sub-categories. Dell was named as the favourite vendor for gaming PCs.
HP continued its onslaught, winning the top spot in Servers and Storage after being named best vendor for volume servers and media servers. Seagate won the award for external storage.
In the Peripherals category, Microsoft took the honours in accessories, with Acer scooping the projectors award and Sony the award for gaming consoles. Samsung won both the monitors and smart TVs categories.
The top vendor overall, however, was LG Electronics, followed by Samsung and Microsoft.
It was the HP show again, with that vendor winning over Printers and Consumables award, with Canon and Lexmark as runners-up. HP was named the top vendor for all the sub-categories: inkjet printers; laser printers; multi-function printers; and printing consumables.
In the Networking and Infrastructure category, Netgear was named as the top wireless router vendor, with APC taking the UPS award. Overall, the category was won by APC, followed by Netgear and D-Link.
Software saw Kaspersky take the award for security software, Pastel for accounting and payroll, and Microsoft for SaaS/cloud. The overall Software winner was Pastel, followed by Microsoft and Kaspersky.
