Seth Rowan has been taking laptops apart since the era when swapping a hard drive meant removing thirty screws and remembering where each one came from. The interest has never really been in benchmark charts. It is in what a machine is like to live with after eighteen months: how the hinge holds up, whether the fan curve turns unbearable, what the battery has quietly lost. Every figure in one of these articles is checked against manufacturer documentation and published repair guides before it goes out, and anything that cannot be verified is described as a mechanism rather than stated as a number. Seth writes the Laptops section.
