Adrian Locke

Senior Tech Analyst

Adrian runs deep-bench hardware benchmarking for The Consumer's Guide. His reviews are the most numerically dense on the site — he runs sustained-load tests, power-draw measurements at the wall, thermal imaging on real workloads, and battery cycle testing over weeks rather than minutes. Before journalism he spent five years as a hardware test engineer in industry, which is why he's allergic to single-run benchmark numbers and treats variance, repeatability, and confidence intervals as table stakes for any meaningful comparison.