2015: Year in Review

November

Cooler Master Xornet II

The Xornet II is pretty much the antithesis to mice like the Razer Mamba 2015. With a launch price of just £20, you probably wouldn't expect much from it, but you'd be wrong. Very wrong. This mouse has seven reprogrammable buttons, an extremely comfortable ergonomic design (especially for claw grip players), on-the-fly DPI control and a very easy to use software suite. It quite simply blows the competition out of the water when it comes to value for money, and we absolutely loved it as a result.

Samsung SSD 950 PRO

Problems with our SSD test system meant we couldn't fully review the SSD 950 PRO until November, but it certainly delivered when we did. It serves as a good demonstration of the fact that Samsung is generally ahead of the curve in SSD development, as it was the first consumer-grade NVMe M.2 SSD to reach market. It didn't introduce new NAND technologies like previous Samsung SSD launches have, instead sensibly merging a number of emerging technologies into one awesome little package. This is the M.2 drive to have, and it's the one to beat too as we move into 2016.