Straight Answers on Gear

At least four weeks of daily work. Keyboards usually get six, desks ten, because the faults that matter (stabiliser rattle, frame wobble, firmware bugs) tend to appear late.

No. Most hardware is bought at retail. Loaned units are disclosed in the report and returned afterwards, and no brand sees a verdict before it is published.

Light linear or tactile switches, around 45 g. Clicky switches are fun on your own and a problem on calls or in shared rooms. See the keyboard report.

For most people, yes. A failed or scratchy switch becomes a two-minute fix with a puller, rather than a return or a soldering job, and you can try different switches without buying a new board.

For browsing, writing and light coding, yes, if you add NVMe storage, the official 27 W supply and active cooling. For heavy browser use, video editing or big builds, a used x86 mini PC is the better buy.

Not necessarily. A 27-inch 1440p screen (about 109 PPI) is comfortable on Windows. 4K at 27 inches (about 163 PPI) is visibly sharper for text and suits macOS scaling better.

The risk is lower than it used to be, but it is not zero. Leave the panel's pixel-refresh features on, hide static taskbars, and avoid running static work at maximum brightness for long periods.

Elbows at about 90 degrees with your forearms level to the keyboard, and the top of the screen at or slightly below eye level, about an arm's length away. Details are in the setups report.

You can suggest it via Write In. We do not guarantee coverage. Any loaned unit is returned and disclosed, and the maker gets no say over the verdict.

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