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Holiday Gift Ideas: Dell’s tech ideas sorted by price ranges

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In case you didn’t know, Dell sells way more than just their computers, primarily electronics, gadgets, and computer accessories, but as you well know, that’s a ton of stuff! Anyway, they’ve done a nice job of putting together a nice collection of gadgets sorted by price.

There are 3 price ranges: under $100, under $200, under $300 and everything else above that which they are cheekily calling “Ultimate gifts”. Products include everything from USB Flash drives, cameras, monitors, printers, MP3 players, laptops, GPS all the way to high-end big screen TVs.

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Holiday Gift Ideas 2008: Laptops and Notebooks

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Considering the number of sub-$500 products there are in this category, it’s no wonder that these are still on people’s wishlists given the faltering economy. The 2 biggest splashes this year arguably came from Apple with their new MacBook and the brand-new MacBook Air, but Dell also joined the still hot mini-laptop/netbook field with their Inspiron Mini 9 and 12, and other makers improved upon their existing minis or jumped on the bandwagon as well.

We also liked the HP tx2z which is a tablet notebook with multi-touch. Here are some ideas and prices on a few of these laptops/notebooks/netbooks.

Apple MacBook Pro (unibody Aluminum case, 17″ TFT LCD, Intel Core 2 Duo 2.6GHz 4GB 320GB NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT) – $3200
Apple MacBook Air (2nd gen. 13″ LCD, 1.6Hz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU, 2GB DDR2 SDRAM, 120GB Serial ATA hard drive, NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics card) – $1700

Dell Inspiron Mini 9 (Glossy 8.9″ LED screen, Intel® Atom Processor® N270 1.6GHz,Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 950,Wireless 802.11g Mini Card, Win XP Home, 512MB DDR2 SDRAM, 8GB SSD) – $399.
Dell Insprion Mini 12 (Intel®Atom®Processor Z530 1.6GHz, Windows® Vista Home, 40GB PATA Hard Drive, 12.1″ widescreen TrueLife® Display (1280×800), Intel®Graphics Media Accelerator 500, 1GB DDR2 SDRAM, Wireless 802.11g Mini Card, Bluetooth 2.1, Integrated 1.3M Pixel Webcam) – $599.
Dell Studio Laptops – starting around $1250

Asus Eee PCs – starting at $249!

HP tx2z tablet notebook – starting at $1150

Vaio CR Series – starting at $799

Holiday Gift Ideas 2008: MP3 Players

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More gift ideas for the music fan, but honestly, who doesn’t want an MP3 player today? The vendor choices haven’t changed much since last year: Apple, Microsoft, Sandisk, Creative, Cown and Sony. There are 2 main choices in MP3 players – whether or not it has a Flash drive or a hard drive. The Flash drive based ones are a lot smaller and lighter. Here are but a few good samples.

Apple iPod Touch (2nd gen, 32GB: $370, 16GB: $280)
Apple iPod Nano (4th gen, 16GB: $200)
Sony Walkman (8GB: $92)
Creative Zen (16GB: $153)
Microsoft Zune (Video 120GB: $225)
Cowon PMP (16GB: $177)
Sandisk Sansa View (32GB video: $210)

(Please note prices are subject to change and the listed price is correct to the best of our knowledge at the time of posting)

Holiday Gift Ideas 2008: for the Music Lover

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Everyone knows a music lover or 2 or 12. What better gift than an album (starting around $10 on average), collection (varies), or box set (varies, could be as low as $25)? This is definitely a gift that can keep on giving for a lifetime.

Amazon has a great page with lots and lots of music ideas.

If you’re not sure about your friend/family’s preferences, give them a gift card from iTunes ($1/song) or perhaps Rhapsody ($13 & $15/month subscriptions).

Holiday Gift Ideas 2008

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It’s coming down to the final 2 weeks of the holiday shopping season right before Christmas, and we’re guessing that since you’re still looking around that you’ve either not had the time yet and/or you’re out of ideas. So we’ve decided to try to help you out by dishing up lots of ideas over the next few days. We’ll also make sure to give you a good idea on prices.

PS> If you still can’t decide, don’t forget that gift cards are a perfectly fine and well-appreciated gift.

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