Team HEXUS Products of 2017

The Best Of The Rest

Monitor - Philips Brilliance 275P4VYKEB 5K

You'd think we'd focus on a gaming monitor given the recommendations above, but the nod has gone to a Philips 5K screen that is a joy to work with from a productivity point of view. 'The Philips Brilliance 275P4VYKEB produces some of the most breathtaking images we've yet seen on a consumer screen,' we said in our review. Lofty praise indeed.

Projector - Sony VPL-VW550ES

Having seen thousands of products through the years, it takes something truly special to take our breath away. The VPL-VW550ES 4K projector did just that, and we concluded that Sony's premium £9,900 solution delivers a jaw-dropping image oozing with enough detail to win over the most fervent projector naysayers. Very expensive? Yes. Very good? Absolutely.

PC Base Unit - Scan 3XS Z370 Vengeance Q

Simple on the outside but chock-full of well-balanced components on the inside, Scan's 3XS Z370 Vengeance Q is a PC we'd happily use for productivity and gaming alike. Quiet, refined and not ridiculous on the money front, it ties together many of 2017's best technology in one tidy package.

Laptop - Microsoft Surface Pro

The updated Surface Pro is a heck of a machine. Beautiful display, solid battery life, practically silent, and a versatile form factor means it is most things to most users.

Sure, it's not perfect, but for most of the team it strikes that key balance between features, performance, weight and battery life.

The Wrap

There you have it. Our favourite reviewed products for 2017. Each one has serious merit in key areas, of course, but the beauty of the PC ecosystem is that there's near-infinite choice. To that end, which products would you have chosen in each category? We'd love to hear your thoughts in the comments section below.

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No wonder AMD are always going to struggle, they have their best CPU year since probably the K7 and you guys still give the CPU of the year to Intel…….

Yes single core IPC is still behind but price and number of cores make up for that, it's not that far behind.

….No AMD product?

I have to mirror this, Ryzen was the product of the year. Yes, even as pointed out about single core, Ryzen kicked the market up like nothing else this year.

What does the 8700k & that motherboard do that an 1800X in this board doesn't? How is that worth the £80 premium on scan right now?

I agree, Ryzen should definitely have been CPU product of the year. The fact of the matter is that the desktop CPU market had been utterly stagnant for most of a decade, prior to the release of Ryzen. If Ryzen hadn't been released, I wonder how much longer we'd be stuck with 4 core / 8 thread desktop CPUs? It's ironic that the 8700K almost certainly wouldn't exist were it not for Ryzen.