T3 Awards 2017 together with Three: all the shortlists for each of this year's awards

The cream of the year's tech crop, arranged into a series of easy-to-digest lists

The Computer Awards

Best laptop

Apple MacBook Pro
 Dell XPS 13 2-in-1
 Asus ZenBook UX305
 HP Spectre 13
 Acer Aspire S 13
 Lenovo Yoga 910
 Microsoft Surface Laptop
 Huawei Matebook X

Best gaming PC

Razer Blade Stealth
 Alienware 15
 Asus ROG GX800VH
 Acer Predator 17X
 Omen by HP 17T Gaming
 MSi GT83VR 7RF TITAN SLI

Best gaming accessory

Nacon Revolution Pro
 Astro A50
 SteelSeries Arctis 7
 Corsair Lapdog
 LucidSound LS20
 Logitech G413 Carbon

 

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Duncan Bell

Duncan is the former lifestyle editor of T3 and has been writing about tech for almost 15 years. He has covered everything from smartphones to headphones, TV to AC and air fryers to the movies of James Bond and obscure anime. His current brief is everything to do with the home and kitchen, which is good because he is an excellent cook, if he says so himself. He also covers cycling and ebikes – like over-using italics, this is another passion of his. In his long and varied lifestyle-tech career he is one of the few people to have been a fitness editor despite being unfit and a cars editor for not one but two websites, despite being unable to drive. He also has about 400 vacuum cleaners, and is possibly the UK's leading expert on cordless vacuum cleaners, despite being decidedly messy. A cricket fan for over 30 years, he also recently become T3's cricket editor, writing about how to stream obscure T20 tournaments, and turning out some typically no-nonsense opinions on the world's top teams and players.

Before T3, Duncan was a music and film reviewer, worked for a magazine about gambling that employed a surprisingly large number of convicted criminals, and then a magazine called Bizarre that was essentially like a cross between Reddit and DeviantArt, before the invention of the internet. There was also a lengthy period where he essentially wrote all of T3 magazine every month for about 3 years. 

A broadcaster, raconteur and public speaker, Duncan used to be on telly loads, but an unfortunate incident put a stop to that, so he now largely contents himself with telling people, "I used to be on the TV, you know."