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The best tech gifts for Christmas
What's going under your tree?
Tue Dec 15 2009, 15:40
IT'S WINTER SOLSTICE festival time again and we hope all our readers will be giving your families and friends gifts this year, and possibly receiving some too, if you've been good.
To help you pick out presents, and think of hints to drop, The INQUIRER's sister site V3 has a list of the Top 10 best tech presents for Christmas.
So if you've not done all your holiday shopping, or aren't sure what you want yourself yet, you might go read that. µ
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I won't go through the top 10 and slag them off, I could, but other have already done that. However I will slag of the honourable mention...
The powermat.
- Expensive (and that's an understatement!)
- Inefficient - Beaming power through the air is never going to be as good as a wire, what happened to being green?
- Incompatible - You need to buy expensive lumps to stick on gadgets to make them charge
- Huge - Look at the amount of space it requires, honestly, is a wallwart and wire really that bad? Plus what if you go away on business, do you take a huge mat with you (and leave your other half with no charging ability?), no, you just grab your small wallwart charger.
Oh, and yes, STOP BEING A REFERRER FOR YOUR OWNER V3, OR JUST IMPLEMENT AN HTTP REDIRECT FOR THE WHOLE SITE.
Somehow I managed to confuse the two honourable mentions (which are completely pointless) with suggestions 10 and 9. The IT crowd DVD box set isn't completely pointless, but possibly not the best gift for a geek. #9 is bunched in with "stupidest" as before.
I dont mind you linking V3, but please read the article first, if it's a bag of balls, dont link it.
10. The IT Crowd box set.
9. MicroSD card.
8. DDR3 memory.
7. Next-generation games consoles - wtf are they, oh it's the old Wii.
6. Solid-state hard drives
5. Terabyte drives
4. Kindle
3. Palm Pre
2. Motorola Droid
1. iPhone
iPhone - the best gadget gift, come on. Nick Farrell - are you reading this, please kick their dumb asses.
How could you give this as a gift, to a techie? OMG. I'd much prefer the HTC Touch HD, wouldn't you? The HTC can run Tomtom etc, can the iphone?
I'm not sure I would want any of these *gifts*.
Where are the new ATI gfx cards? I'd like one of those.
What about a PC game, or even a Wii game? I'd like a PC game, Wii is a but naff for a techy.
An SSD would be nice, but I'd like it at least 128GB please, lol. I just don't think my gf or family are likely to know what it is.
This list is not really a *gift* list, it's a bunch of pretty lame IT products that you might buy for yourself if you didn't have much of a clue about IT gadgets.
Do these guys not have much of a clue?
Why is everyone harping on about the Iphone yes it has apps for things and plays music but big woop. I wouldn't say that's the best thing this century or even the number 1 thing to buy this Christmas. Talk to me when it has a camera that is better than a child's first digital camera and a flash. There are lots of positive things about the Iphone but it keeps letting itself down by holding out the best bits for "the next model"
ok, that article is terrible, if I got an iphone I'd hurl it at whoevers name was on the tag, gimmie a HTC Hero any day. A HDD wouldnt be too bad (so long as it is 1.5 or 2TB) as I'd stick that in my media server which is starting to look a little full. An SSD wouldnt be too bad either as long as it is a 160GB Intel SSD as I'm looking to build a new system after christmas.
I can just imagine on Christmas morning opening a package and seeing...
A MicroSD card. Wow. Thanks honey, that must have taken a age for you to think about...
Same sentence goes for the SSD or HDD ideas
10-9 are pointless, 8-5 are the stupidest gift suggestions I've ever encountered and #1, really? Imagine that.
...because most of the time, they're behind on the news, and just refer you to some goddamn awful third party site for anything that may be potentially interesting.
Back to El Reg for me (despite hating their "new" page layout)
Stop plugging V3, it feels like spam. Bring on more original NEWS. That is what INQ is about, isn't it? Top whatever won't save you.
V3 is an 'also ran'. Lacking original content and original vision, it's a horrible kludge of a bloated portal.
Sorry for such harsh words, but as a long-term avid reader of the INQ, I am saddened by the current state of it.
I thought if I saw one more STUPID LAME LIST I would lose it and I didn't even have to look at it. GET A LIFE
... if the articles weren't such a damn disappointment when read. Just let the site die already.
Please stop trying to sell your "sister site" V3.
If V3's articles are worth reading, they'll probably get linked from other tech sites like HardOCP. I might check them out then. Until then, please be curteous to your readers and realise that we don't like you CONSTANTLY trying to plug V3. If it's good, we'll find it ourselves in time and go there anyway.
V3 is clueless