South African resellers have made their voices heard in the 2016 Channelwise Awards, selecting their favourite vendors in the SME/Consumer space.

Over the last three months, resellers were asked to cast their votes for the vendors they prefer to work with across a number of categories.

In the Components category, Nvidia came out tops for graphics cards, Kingston for both USBs and memory, and Seagate for disk drives.

In terms of End User Computing, Dell took top honours for desktop computers as well as for notebooks, ultrabooks and mobile gaming computers, while Samsung was the top vendor for handheld computers.

Printers, Peripherals and Accessories saw HP Inc dominate in inkjet printers, laser printers, multi-function printers and printing consumables. Acer was the top vendor for projectors, Samsung the best for monitors and Logitech tops for accessories.

In Servers, Storage and Networking, Dell scooped first place for servers, with Western Digital coming first for storage hardware, APC/Schneider Electric for UPSs and D-Link for switches and routers.