BEST BUYS… Curated picks of third-party kit

MONITOR

Philips 328P6AUBREB

£400 philips.co.uk

Getting a colour-accurate display used to cost a pretty penny, but this monitor is both impressive and affordable. It hits 99% of the Adobe RGB gamut – great for colour-critical work – and supports 10-bit colour. Throw in a host of ports (including USB-C), an IPS display and a great price, and you have a seriously good screen.

ULTRA HD MONITOR

Philips 328P6VJEB

£530 philips.co.uk

We love this display. At 32 inches diagonally it’s big enough to make its 4K resolution worthwhile, and its colour rendering is excellent – 100% of sRGB, 93% of Adobe RGB and 97% of the P3 gamut that Apple’s new MacBook Pro uses. It’s big, bold, beautiful and superb for productivity and colour work alike.

EXTERNAL SSD

Freecom mSSD MAXX 512GB

£269 freecom.com

This drive is the fastest portable SSD we’ve ever tested. Freecom claims its write speeds can reach 700MB/sec, but in our tests it blazed past that to reach 713.8MB/sec write speeds and 907.3MB/sec read speeds, thanks to its