Brands

ABS is a system builder founded in 1990 in California that assembles prebuilt gaming PCs. It is now a subsidiary of the retailer Newegg, which relaunched the brand around gaming in 2020.

Makes: Gaming PCs

Alienware is a gaming hardware brand founded in Miami in 1996 and owned by Dell since 2006. It makes gaming PCs, laptops and monitors, including a range of QD-OLED displays.

Makes: Monitors

Amazon Basics is Amazon's own private label, launched in 2009 with cables and batteries. It now covers simple, low-priced everyday products, from desk accessories to monitor arms, sold only on Amazon.

Makes: Monitor arms, Chairs

Anker is a consumer electronics brand founded in 2011 by former Google engineer Steven Yang. It is best known for chargers, power banks, cables and USB-C hubs.

Makes: Accessories, Mice

AOC is a monitor brand that started in Taiwan in 1967 as Admiral Overseas Corporation and now belongs to TPV Technology. It is best known for affordable gaming monitors sold under the AOC Gaming and AGON names.

Makes: Monitors

Apple is an American technology company founded in 1976 in Cupertino, California. It designs the Mac computers and the Apple silicon chips that power them.

Makes: Desktop computers, Keyboards, Mice

Arozzi is a Swedish gaming furniture brand founded in 2013, with products designed in Sweden and offices in Sweden and the US. It is known for gaming chairs such as the Vernazza and Avanti and for the Arena gaming desks.

Makes: Monitor arms, Chairs

ASUS is a Taiwanese hardware company founded in 1989, known for motherboards, laptops and monitors. Its ProArt line targets photo, video and design work with factory-calibrated screens.

Makes: Mice, Monitors, Keyboards, Gaming PCs

Audient is a British company that designs recording consoles and audio interfaces. Its EVO range brings its preamps to compact USB interfaces for home recording.

Makes: Creator gear

Audio-Technica is a Japanese audio company founded in 1962 that makes microphones, headphones and turntables. The ATH-M50x is one of its best known studio headphones.

Makes: Headsets & headphones

BenQ is a Taiwanese electronics brand that started inside the Acer group in 1984 and became independent in 2001. Besides monitors and projectors, it makes the ScreenBar monitor light bars.

Makes: Lighting, Monitors

Blackmagic Design is an Australian company that makes video hardware and the DaVinci Resolve editing and colour grading software. It also sells dedicated Resolve control surfaces.

Makes: Creator gear

Bose is an American audio company founded in 1964 and a pioneer of consumer noise cancelling headphones. Its QuietComfort line is its main headphone range.

Makes: Headsets & headphones

CalDigit is a connectivity brand established in 2006 that started with storage for creative professionals. Since its first Thunderbolt Station in 2013 it has focused on Thunderbolt docks such as the TS4 and TS5.

Makes: Accessories

Calibrite makes display calibration devices and software, continuing the X-Rite ColorChecker calibration line. Its colorimeters profile monitors for accurate colour.

Makes: Creator gear

Corsair is a California company founded in 1994 that started with computer memory. It is now known for PC components (power supplies, cases, cooling) and gaming peripherals such as its K-series keyboards and M-series mice, managed in its iCUE software.

Makes: Mice, Keyboards, Desk mats, Chairs

Creative Technology is a Singapore company founded in 1981, famous for the Sound Blaster sound cards. Today it makes PC speakers, headphones and USB audio devices, including the Pebble speaker range.

Makes: Speakers

Dell is an American computer company founded by Michael Dell in 1984. Its UltraSharp monitors are a standard choice for office and productivity desks.

Makes: Monitors, Desktop computers

Dyson is a British technology company founded by James Dyson in 1991. It is known for bagless vacuum cleaners, bladeless fans and hair dryers, and also makes LED task lamps such as the Solarcycle Morph.

Makes: Lighting

Edifier is a Chinese audio brand founded in 1996, known for affordable powered bookshelf and desktop speakers. Its R1280 and MR series are common desk picks.

Makes: Speakers

Elgato is a brand owned by Corsair that makes gear for streamers and creators: Stream Deck controllers, Facecam webcams, Wave microphones and arms, and capture cards.

Makes: Creator gear, Webcams, Microphones, Lighting

Ergotron is an American company founded in 1982 in Minnesota by Harry Sweere, specialised in monitor mounts and sit-stand products. Its LX monitor arm is one of the most copied designs on the market.

Makes: Monitor arms

FlexiSpot is an ergonomic furniture brand owned by a publicly traded group and sold in more than 30 countries. It is best known for its electric standing desk frames such as the E7 series.

Makes: Desks, Monitor arms, Cable management

Focusrite is a British audio company founded in 1985, known for studio preamps and recording interfaces. Its Scarlett USB interfaces are among the most common in home studios.

Makes: Creator gear

Fujifilm is a Japanese imaging company whose X Series mirrorless cameras use APS-C sensors and the X mount. The line is popular with hybrid photo and video creators.

Makes: Creator gear

Harber London is a family-run London brand of leather goods whose products are handmade by artisans in Spain. It is known for full grain leather laptop sleeves, wallets, bags and desk mats.

Makes: Desk mats

Herman Miller is an American furniture maker from Zeeland, Michigan, with roots going back to 1905. Its Aeron office chair, launched in 1994, set the template for the mesh ergonomic chair.

Makes: Chairs, Desks, Monitor arms

HP Inc. is an American computer and printer maker that traces its roots to Hewlett-Packard, founded in 1939 in Palo Alto, California. Its OMEN line covers gaming desktops, laptops and monitors.

Makes: Gaming PCs

HyperX is the gaming peripherals brand of HP, best known for its Cloud headset family. It also makes keyboards, mice and microphones.

Makes: Headsets & headphones, Microphones, Mice, Keyboards

IKEA is a Swedish home furnishing brand founded in 1943 by Ingvar Kamprad, known for flat-pack furniture at low prices. Its workspace range includes the MITTZON sit/stand desks and small cable management accessories.

Makes: Desks, Chairs, Accessories, Cable management, Lighting

Insta360 is a camera maker founded in 2015 in Shenzhen, China. It is known for its 360-degree and action cameras and makes the Link webcams, which put the camera on a small motorised gimbal that follows you with AI tracking.

Makes: Webcams

KEF is a British loudspeaker maker founded in 1961 by Raymond Cooke in Kent, England. It is known for its Uni-Q driver, which places the tweeter at the centre of the midrange cone, and for its LS wireless speakers.

Makes: Speakers

Keychron is a keyboard and mouse maker founded in 2017, known for wireless mechanical keyboards that work with both Mac and Windows. Its Q and K series run open-source QMK firmware and can be remapped from a web app.

Makes: Keyboards

LDLC is a French online electronics retailer founded in 1996 near Lyon. Besides selling components and peripherals, it assembles and tests its own range of LDLC desktop and gaming PCs.

Makes: Gaming PCs

Lenovo is a computer maker founded in Beijing in 1984 that bought IBM's PC business in 2005. Its ThinkCentre desktops and ThinkPad laptops are common in offices around the world.

Makes: Desktop computers

LG Electronics is a South Korean electronics maker founded in 1958 under the GoldStar name. Its UltraGear line covers gaming monitors, including some of the most common OLED models on the market.

Makes: Monitors

Logitech is a Swiss company that makes computer peripherals, webcams and headsets, and sells gaming gear under the Logitech G name. Its C920 and Brio webcams are fixtures of home offices.

Makes: Mice, Keyboards, Headsets & headphones, Lighting, Webcams, Microphones, Desk mats, Speakers

Materiel.net is a French online computer retailer founded in Nantes and part of the LDLC group since 2016. It sells components and peripherals, and assembles and tests its own range of gaming PCs in its Nantes workshop.

Makes: Gaming PCs

MSI (Micro-Star International) is a Taiwanese hardware maker founded in 1986. It is known for motherboards and graphics cards, and also builds gaming laptops, prebuilt gaming desktops and monitors.

Makes: Monitors, Gaming PCs, Desktop computers

Nanoleaf is a Toronto lighting company founded in 2012 by Gimmy Chu, Tom Rodinger and Christian Yan. It is best known for modular wall lights such as Shapes and Lines that react to music and on-screen colors.

Makes: Lighting

noblechairs is a German seating brand created by the Berlin PC retailer Caseking, which launched its first chairs in the mid-2010s. It is known for the ICON, EPIC and HERO gaming chairs and their faux leather and real leather upholstery.

Makes: Chairs

NZXT is an American PC hardware company founded in 2004 and based in California. It is known for its clean-looking cases and Kraken liquid coolers, and sells ready-built Player gaming PCs.

Makes: Gaming PCs

Oakywood is a Polish brand that started when its founder Mateusz built a wooden smartphone dock in his home workshop. Its workshop in Ciche, in the foothills of the Tatra mountains, now makes solid wood desk accessories, wool felt desk mats and standing desks.

Makes: Accessories, Cable management, Desk mats

Orbitkey is a Melbourne brand founded in 2013 by Charles Ng and Rex Kuo, whose first product, a key organiser, was funded on Kickstarter. It now also makes desk mats, laptop sleeves and cable organisers.

Makes: Desk mats

Philips Hue is the smart lighting brand launched in 2012 by Philips Lighting, the company now called Signify. It is known for app-controlled bulbs, light strips and Play light bars that run on the Hue Bridge.

Makes: Lighting

Rain Design is a San Francisco company whose first hit, in 2003, was the iGo desk for the Apple iMac G4. It is best known for the mStand, a one-piece aluminium laptop stand designed to match MacBooks.

Makes: Accessories

Razer is a gaming hardware brand founded in 2005, known for its mice, keyboards, headsets and laptops. Its BlackShark and Kraken lines cover wired and wireless gaming headsets.

Makes: Mice, Keyboards, Headsets & headphones, Webcams, Desk mats, Chairs, Accessories, Microphones

RØDE is an Australian microphone maker founded in 1967, with manufacturing in Sydney. Its PodMic range is built for podcasting and streaming.

Makes: Creator gear, Microphones

Samsung Electronics is a South Korean electronics maker founded in 1969 in Suwon. Its Odyssey line covers gaming monitors, including curved OLED and super ultrawide models.

Makes: Monitors

Secretlab is a Singaporean seating brand founded in 2014 by Ian Ang and Alaric Choo. It sells its TITAN Evo chairs mostly direct to consumers and is one of the best-known names in gaming chairs.

Makes: Desks, Chairs, Monitor arms, Cable management

Sennheiser is a German audio company founded in 1945. Its consumer headphones, including the MOMENTUM line, are now made and sold by Sonova under the Sennheiser brand.

Makes: Headsets & headphones

Shure is an American microphone and audio company founded in 1925. Its SM7B dynamic microphone is a long-running standard in broadcast and podcast studios.

Makes: Microphones

Sihoo is a Chinese ergonomic office chair brand launched in 2011, which opened its own ergonomics testing center in 2016. It is best known for affordable mesh chairs such as the Doro C300 and the M57.

Makes: Chairs

Sonos is an American company that makes Wi-Fi connected speakers and soundbars controlled from an app. Its speakers can be grouped into a multi-room system.

Makes: Speakers

Sony is a Japanese electronics company founded in 1946, known for PlayStation, cameras, TVs and audio. Its 1000X line of wireless headphones is a reference for noise cancelling.

Makes: Headsets & headphones

Steelcase is an American office furniture maker founded in 1912 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, as the Metal Office Furniture Company. It is known for ergonomic task chairs such as Leap, Gesture and the Series 1 and Series 2.

Makes: Chairs

SteelSeries is a Danish gaming peripherals company founded in 2001. Its Arctis headsets are among the most common wireless gaming headsets on PC and console.

Makes: Keyboards, Headsets & headphones, Desk mats

Twelve South is an accessory maker founded in 2009 by Andrew and Leigh Ann Green in South Carolina, now based in Charleston. It designs accessories for Apple products, such as the BookArc vertical stand and the HiRise charging stands.

Makes: Accessories

Wooting is a Dutch keyboard company that started in 2015 with the goal of making analog input keyboards the norm. Its Hall effect boards popularised Rapid Trigger and are among the most used keyboards in competitive FPS games.

Makes: Keyboards

Yamaha is a Japanese company that makes musical instruments and professional audio equipment. Its HS series studio monitors descend from the classic NS-10 tradition of nearfield monitoring.

Makes: Speakers

ZOTAC is a hardware maker founded in 2006 and headquartered in Hong Kong, part of the PC Partner group. It is best known for its GeForce graphics cards and ZBOX mini PCs, and sells MEK prebuilt gaming PCs assembled in the US.

Makes: Gaming PCs