Computing

Responsive and wirelessly charging, letting his wife read without light disturbing him.

The mouse he has always used, now in white, and he calls it actual perfection.

Swapping the stands for these arms adds flexibility, saves desk space and helped the cable management.

The 40-inch curved 5K 120Hz Dell screens are as good as the spec suggests and he has zero regrets.

Picked from seven keyboards as the one that felt just right: fast, light to press, low profile and still satisfyingly thunky.

He did not rate the keyboard much but the included wrist rest was exactly what he had been looking for.

A fantastic computer, though he noticed practically no difference from the M2 model as gains since Apple silicon have been incremental.

Considered even more of a revelation than the original, with a full modernisation of the fundamentals.

The crowning jewel of the iPad line, remarkably thin with a tandem OLED display and the M4 chip.

The Retina display was a great leap, but little else changed and the naming and LTE claims were a mess.

A big chip upgrade but otherwise essentially an iPad 3, released only months after it and with a baffling name.

A breakout success that nailed the fundamentals, with an interface that still holds up today.

A massive, laptop-sized tablet with quad speakers and Apple Pencil support, though its Pro role was questionable.

A complete redesign with USB-C, Face ID and slim bezels that made the iPad feel like a magic sheet of glass.

Added a LiDAR sensor and Magic Keyboard, but the chip made no real difference and the selfie camera placement was odd.

A big step in thinness, weight and power, helped by strong branding.

Gained the M1 chip and a mini LED display, but the software could not make use of the power.

Not exciting on specs, being basically a tiny iPad 2, but it was thin and it far outsold the iPad 4.

A modest upgrade with an M2 chip and Pencil hover, mostly for bragging rights.

A brilliant idea ruined by awful typing feel and a $1,500 price, though it eventually led to the Stream Deck.

A slower, clunkier, bulkier and buggy iPad rival that HP pulled after 48 days.

A thoughtful idea whose promises vanished, with a terrible screen, 1GB storage and a price above the promised $100.

He says the chip finally makes Windows laptops good, with big gains in battery life, standby and camera quality plus useful AI features.

An overengineered $150 webcam that looks ridiculous, gives poor quality, and is made redundant by software eye-contact correction.