The lasting legacy of the lockdown PC hardware boom

In last month’s column (see issue 375, p113), I mentioned I had attended FixFest 2025 (tinyurl. com/376fixfest), a two-day international repair conference organised by those lovely people at the Resta

I ended my in-depth review of this year’s ProArt P16 (see issue 371, p60) with the words “if the RTX 5070 is powerful enough to meet your needs, the new ProArt P16 is our top choice as a mobile workst

For anyone unfamiliar with the Framework brand, its laptops are designed to be opened, upgraded and repaired by the owner, and it comes with a free tool for doing just that. You can even swap out port

My verdict is clear on the whole migration away from Windows 10 thing. The bigger the network, the easier the upgrade, along with a definite bias towards cloud deployments being more difficult and exp

Trust is one of those very awkward words in our industry. Why do we trust a vendor and their products or services? For some, it’s simply hiding behind a known quantity; “no-one gets fired for buying I