The votes are in, the judges have decided, and the 2004 Vaporware winners have been announced!
Now in its eighth year, Wired News’ annual Vaporware Awards celebrate all the wonderful gewgaws of 2004 that sadly never saw the light of day. And 2004 was a very good year for vaporware. A vintage year, indeed.
Here they are, in the particular order which Wired published them in:
10. Alienware’s Video Array
9. Intel’s Pentium 4 at 4 GHz
8. Apple Computer’s G5 Chips at 3 GHz
7. Team Fortress 2: Brotherhood of Arms
6. Gran Turismo 4
5. ATI’s Radeon X800 series of video cards
4. TiVoToGo
3. Microsoft’s Longhorn
2. CherryOS
1. Phantom Game Console
Thankfully, Wired has included at least one company that every person will enjoy leering at. Some will scoff at Apple, ohters at Microsoft and still others at Phantom.
Either way, good year for Vaporware I suppose. What will 2005 hold? A Google Browser? Longhorn again? We’ll just have to wait and see!
January 7th, 2005 at 8:12 pm
Damn, and I wanted to play GT4 on my 3GHz G5 machine running Longhorn
January 7th, 2005 at 11:32 pm
The people at Wired are pretty ignorant, MS Longhorn’s date was moved to 2006 along time ago and no one was expecting a 2004 release.
January 8th, 2005 at 10:13 am
The pace of increasing CPU horse power ran out of steam, as CPU cooling requirements lately have had some people installing water-cooled heatsink radiators to deal with overheating on Intel’s and AMD’s overclocked CPUs.