2026
- Best Cheap Student Laptops for 2026/27 (Three That Survived a Term) — 12 Oct · Three machines I'd send a student off with, and the £300 trap.
- Deals of the Month: What's Actually Worth Buying in Early October 2026 — 6 Oct · New monthly format: the deals I'd buy, and two I'd skip.
- Best Cheap OLED Laptops in 2026 (Yes, They Exist Now) — 4 Oct · Three sub-£750 OLED machines worth the money, two patterns to avoid.
- Refurbished ThinkPads: What to Check Before Buying — 19 Sep · Battery cycles, screen swaps, and the seller checklist.
- Is 8GB RAM Still Enough? (My Honest Answer After a Month of Testing) — 27 Aug · Four weeks on 8GB: fine until it very much isn't.
- Budget 27-inch Monitors: The Three I'd Buy Under £180 — 14 Jul · Beating the panel lottery from the reviews.
- Opinion: "Extended Warranties" on Budget Laptops Are Almost Always a Waste — 2 Jun · The maths, five years of receipts, one exception.
- How to Tell a Good Refurb Seller From a Bad One (5-Minute Checklist) — 21 Apr · Photos of the actual unit or it didn't happen.
- The £219 Chromebook Winter Experiment — 22 Feb · Can a dirt-cheap Chromebook be a main machine? Mostly, no.
2025
- Black Friday Refurb Buyers' Guide — 28 Nov 2025 · Which refurb listings are real deals and which are Tuesday's price with a sticker.
- Why I Stopped Recommending Cheap Gaming Laptops — 30 May 2025 · The thermals finally broke me.
- Two Years With a £150 Laptop as a Backup Machine — 14 Mar 2025 · Slow, scuffed, somehow still alive.
- The £99 Tablet Trap, Illustrated — 17 Jan 2025 · With charts, because anger wasn't enough.
2024
- The Year 1440p Got Cheap — 9 Dec 2024 · What happened to monitor pricing, and who benefited.
- Battery Replacement Week: Three Laptops, One Screwdriver — 21 Aug 2024 · The cheapest upgrade in computing.
- Are £250 Laptops Still Terrible? (Spoiler: Less Than Before) — 6 Jun 2024 · The floor rose while nobody was watching.
2023
- ThinkPad T480: Five Years On, Still the King — 12 Oct 2023 · The post that started the refurb wave on this site.
- The Price of RAM: A Rant in Three Acts — 3 May 2023 · 8GB base models in 2023, honestly.
- How I Test Battery Life (No Loop Videos) — 19 Feb 2023 · The spreadsheet method, explained.
2022
- The Pandemic Pricing Hangover — 15 Nov 2022 · When budget laptops finally came back down to earth.
- Chromebook Season: What to Buy for School — 2 Sep 2022 · Four picks, one lemon.
2021
- The ThinkPad Refurb Guide That Paid My Rent — 8 Jul 2021 · Where it all went properly sideways.
- £400 vs £900: The Blind Test — 4 Apr 2021 · Few people could tell. Fewer than you'd think.
2020
- Working From Home on a £350 Laptop — 27 Mar 2020 · Written in a strange spring, still mostly true.
- Budget Webcams Are All Terrible: A Rankings Post — 11 Nov 2020 · Ranked by how quickly I returned them.
2019
- Hello, and Why Budget Tech — 3 Mar 2019 · First post. Nine readers, most of them my mum.
- The £399 Laptop That Surprised Me — 24 Jun 2019 · The one that started the "cheap stuff, seriously" thesis.
- What "Refurbished" Actually Means — 30 Sep 2019 · Grade A, B, C and the asterisks between them.
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