Computing

A $2.99 wired mouse with a painted finish that surprisingly works, though it feels light and cheap.

The laptop he still uses daily, feeling far faster than Intel models, with a 1080p webcam though the notch is unnecessary.

A nostalgic plastic laptop that felt high-end and was the first fun computer he used.

A playful, experimental and affordable laptop that introduced consumer Wi-Fi, and he wishes more laptops were this daring.

The fastest laptop in the world in 1997, and the Wall Street model felt high-end, though he wished for curvier edges.

Solid, bright and fast, the best-selling MacBook ever and the first proper MacBook design.

Metal-bodied, with a good display and slick keyboard, and the last Apple laptop with a latch.

The first Apple laptop with a metal body; sturdy and functional, starting to resemble the modern MacBook.

A paradigm-changing thin laptop and one of Apple's top moments, with a multi-touch trackpad that felt intuitive.

An incremental update with longer battery life, newer ports and a 30% faster chip, but no big redesign.

A love-hate laptop: futuristic and fun with a huge trackpad, but the Touch Bar bugged out and few developers supported it.

Impressively thin with a nice Retina screen, but dropping all ports and fanless low-power chip made it unnecessary.

A night-and-day screen upgrade in a thin body, with a keyboard he thinks Apple peaked on.

Impressive for 1989 and surprisingly repairable with a great keyboard, but huge and absurdly expensive.

A well-reviewed, no-gimmick Pro laptop that nailed the fundamentals, though the webcam was still poor.

A massive jump from the Macintosh Portable, with a clever trackball placement and a much smaller body.

A big leap that felt much more pro, with a trackpad and see-through loading screen, though his unit died on camera.

3D was a flop, but its ability to give two players separate full-screen images was a feature he thinks could be huge today.

The $500 Lenovo is a big step up from the Coda and has very little wrong with it for everyday use and light gaming.

Surprisingly well built for $70 and fine for Word, but hopeless for gaming and very slow.

A chunky gaming laptop with a big step up in screen, graphics and responsiveness, though the build and trackpad are not better.

An over-the-top $7,000 laptop with the best keyboard, screen, speakers and graphics he has seen, let down only by a poor webcam.

A pricey smart pen and notebook that digitises handwriting, with surprisingly cheap refill notebooks.

Grippier and more put together than the $5 model, but the keys need a lot of force.