Inspect-a-Gadget

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  • Huawei MateBook 16 review

    Adrian Bridgwater 07 Apr 2022
  • It’s the 2022 Spring conference season and - lockdowns, cancellations, shifts to virtual, other force majeure disruptions notwithstanding - we need to be able to work remotely for the next few ...

  • RedMagic 7 smartphone

    Adrian Bridgwater 18 Mar 2022
  • As the line between PCs and smartphones continues to blur, we’re likely to see more and more features that we would normally expect to feature on a laptop (or a desktop, even) being incorporated ...

  • Mobile Pixels DUEX Plus

    Adrian Bridgwater 11 Feb 2022
  • One screen is never enough, well - that’s the mantra that I have always worked to. As a result, I have experimented with various ‘laptop extension’ monitors from time to time, with a unit from ...

  • Anker weighs in on a chain of hubs, USB on the high Cs

    Adrian Bridgwater 10 Jun 2021
  • Picture the scenario, you’re wandering the halls of the average technology trade show and you casually pick up a small four-port USB-C data hub and sling it into your bag without thinking too much. ...

  • Time to watch Thunderbolt

    Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 20 May 2021
  • Those who are into high-end PC games are generally well-versed in the significance of GPU acceleration. So called AAA games often need the most powerful GPUs available to achieve the best ...

  • Ausounds AU-Frequency true wireless earbuds

    Adrian Bridgwater 07 May 2021
  • Let’s be honest, the Inspect-a-Gadget elves have huge ears, it’s what makes us elves… but that doesn’t stop us from testing out human earphones, earbuds and (for that matter) earrings are ear ...

  • AirPop Active+ smart mask with ‘Halo’ sensor

    Adrian Bridgwater 30 Apr 2021
  • If you had to take a random stab at naming the types of products we get to see in the Computer Weekly Inspect-a-Gadget test lab, you’d probably come up a list that includes most of the usual ...

  • Death of firewire

    Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 20 Apr 2021
  • In the tech sector, computer interfaces come and go in the name of progress. RS232 was superseded by USB1; now there is USB C and USB 3.1 and the latest Macs have USB 4. But not everyone wants to ...