If, like me, you are frustrated by the new PriceSpy then you can get back to the old format at Classic PriceSpy on your web browser. I'm not sure if it that there is a similar option for the mobile app.

The classic site allows comparisons between products within a filtered list by comparing the columns I select to display. The new site does not. All I can see for laptops, for example, is the screen size, installed RAM and weight. That is effectively useless to me because other specs are at least as important, such as, screen resolution, CPU, SSD installed/size. If I want that detail then I have to select each laptop and view the specs for each individually.

Plus, if I further refine any filtered list, I will still have to revisit the specs in each item to compare them. Here's an example, if I filter the list of laptops to only select those with FullHD (1920x1080) or higher screen resolution then I cannot tell what resolution each laptop has unless I display its specs.

An alternative approach to coping with the new format is to have a separate filtered list for each specific screen resolution. I won't have to do all the screen resolutions this way because the highest screen resolutions have so few laptops that I could have one list for resolutions of 4K and higher. But that still means several lists that I cannot easily compare side-by-side.

The old format definitely needed an update but PriceSpy didn't have to lose key functionality to improve it. Some of the faults in the old format:

• it is too complex for most people to use easily and too busy on the eye;
• the user rating column is a default that I've never used because people don't give many ratings for what they buy and it is no help for newly introduced products;
• the default columns for CPU and GPU are useful for gaming but more useful later in the search process for non-gaming computers where RAM, screen size and resolution and SSD size are more helpful in initially filtering a list - CPU/GPU specs used to be essential info when many old CPUs/GPUs could not handle high quality video streams but now they can all do FullHD video.

P.S. Edited for grammar and clarity and to correct automatic spell-check changes that made no sense.