THE YEAR IN REVIEW
CLOSING THE YEAR by looking at the best hardware from the past 12 months is a great way of seeing how far we’ve come, and this year is no different. The constant march of progress means that a PC that you build today is going to be notably more powerful than one you could have built a year ago, and this year that machine is more likely to be built around one of AMD’s Zen 2 chips, with their abundance of cores and support for the latest PCIe 4.0 speedy NVMe SSDs. That hasn’t been the only advance, though, so turn to page 24 to see the gear that wowed us the most. Our other big features include the best projects for the Raspberry Pi 4, and a look at the…