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Holiday Gift Guide 2010: Budget Hardware

By | October 25, 2010, 6:42pm PDT

Summary: The geekiest geeks want hardware components for the holidays. Here’s our list of the best budget picks.

As the holiday season approaches, people start thinking about gift ideas. To help you give (or receive) the perfect holiday gift this year I’ve put together a list of five cool budget hardware tech gift ideas.

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Note: All prices are approximate. Shop around for the best deals.

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Adrian Kingsley-Hughes is an internationally published technology author who has devoted over a decade to helping users get the most from technology.

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Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes is an internationally published technology author who has devoted over a decade to helping users get the most from technology -- whether that be by learning to program, building a PC from a pile of parts, or helping them get the most from their new MP3 player or digital camera.

Adrian has authored/co-authored technical books on a variety of topics, ranging from programming to building and maintaining PCs. His most recent books include "Build the Ultimate Custom PC", "Beginning Programming" and "The PC Doctor's Fix It Yourself Guide". He has also written training manuals that have been used by a number of Fortune 500 companies.

Adrian also runs a popular blog under the name The PC Doctor, where he covers a range of computer-related topics -- from security to repairing and upgrading.

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RE: Holiday Gift Guide 2010: Budget Hardware
Angie25 31st Oct
@densk But I've seen, that the Japanese brands of monitors for computers, have very attractive prices when sold in large shopping centers escort.
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RE: Holiday Gift Guide 2010: Budget Hardware
Jerry1956 26th Oct 2010
for all the "Gift Guides" it would be helpful if the first page gave a short description of the other pages. HD, Graphics Card etc. Since all this takes a lot of time to page through it would take some of the mystery out of the NEXT pages. The Computer "Gift Guides" didn't even list one desk top. Not much info on first page and therefore ups the frustration factor. IMHO
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Um.. The hard drive isn't much of a deal...
Wolfie2K3 26th Oct 2010
...if you think about it...

Ok... So you've got a 320 GB drive for $45.

But if you look around, you can find 1 TB drives dipping as low as $55. So wouldn't it make more sense to spend that extra $10 and get ~3x the disk space? Seems to me that if you're working on a budget, you might as well get the most bang for the buck.
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ArgusEyes 28th Nov 2010
Tempting to go for this as a system. Any ideas on a bargain power supply to add to this mix?
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RE: Holiday Gift Guide 2010: Budget Hardware
curtis@... 29th Nov 2010
I found a better processor for less money. The rest of the things you have on there are pretty good. You can find a 22" monitor for another $20.00.
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Tempting to go for this as a system. Any ideas on a bargain power supply to add to this mix?
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