WHO IS DOING THE TESTING
Five years building the things I now take apart.
I was a hardware engineer before I was a reviewer. That is the whole reason this site publishes measurements instead of impressions — I know exactly which corners get cut, because I was in the room when they were argued about.
How a device gets scored
01
Box-fresh baseline
Capacity, brightness and thermals recorded before anything is configured.
02
Daily driver
It becomes my actual device. Nothing is simulated, nothing is a benchmark loop.
03
Fade and stress
The baseline is re-run. This is where marketing claims usually come apart.
04
Open it up
Repairability is scored with a screwdriver, never from a spec sheet.
What's on the bench
Published so you can reproduce a result, or tell me where the method is wrong.
Thermal imaging
±2°C, logged every 90s
Power draw
Inline meter at the wall
Audio room
Foam-lined, 1m, fixed gain
Funding
Readers only. No affiliate links.
Inside the workshop
The main bench
Salvage, sorted
Where scores come from
If a manufacturer wants a better score, they can build a better product.
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Want the rubric before you trust the score?
All forty points, and what each one is worth.