The High Tech Gifts of the Moment

Que ce soit pour trouver un gift pour le geek de la famille ou tout simplement pour se faire plaisir, les festivités de Christmas sont une belle occasion de découvrir ce qu’il y a d’intéressant dans le domaine du High Tech dans le moment.

PROCESSOR

L'Intel Core i5 is certainly the most interesting processor at the moment due to its excellent price/performance/overclocking ratio. However, the LGA1156 socket currently used by Intel will be replaced by an LGA1155 socket in January with the arrival of the "Sandy Bridge" processor.

MOTHERBOARD

Perfect for a Core i5, theAsus P7P55D-E LX supports new USB 3.0 and SATA 6 Gbps standards without breaking the budget.

GRAPHICS CARD

Around €175, the Radeon HD 6850 and the GeForce GTX 460 1GB allow you to play in Full HD with the maximum level of detail in all games. To top it all off, they are quite quiet and energy efficient. Please note that the GeForce GTX 460 will be replaced in January by the GeForce GTX 560...

STORAGE

Ideal for any computer, desktop or laptop, SSDs are the best way to boost performance. For just over €100, a 60GB SSD based on a SandForce SF1200 controller like theOCZ Vertex 2 or the Corsair F60 is recommended and recommendable! It remains to complete the storage space with a classic 1 GB hard drive like the Samsung SpinPoint F3 internal or external WD My Book Essential with USB 3.0.

SCREEN

Given the power of graphics cards, there's no reason to skip a Full HD display. And while you're at it, you might as well take advantage of LED backlighting. It's possible without breaking the bank with the Samsung BX2450 : 1920×1080, LED, HDMI, DVI and 3 years warranty. What more could you ask for?

LAPTOP

Light as a netbook, powerful as an ultraportable and sober as a camel, the 11-inch MacBook Air is certainly the most attractive of current laptops. Sure, it flirts with €1000, but its aluminum casing, impeccable finish, and the presence of a 64 GB SSD justify its price. Finally, even if the central processor is not the most powerful, it is supported by a very powerful graphics processor (for a laptop of this finesse). A real little gem!

THE TOUCHSCREEN TABLET

After netbooks, touchscreen tablets are all the rage! It's hard to ignore them.iPad, instigator of this new wave. A new version of the Apple tablet is however planned for the beginning of the second quarter of 2011. If you are allergic to Apple, the Galaxy Tab Samsung is not to be outdone...

VIDEO GAME CONSOLES

WII, Xbox 360 or PS3? While these three consoles are competitors, they are also almost complementary! In addition to its impressive collection of titles, the PS3 slim is an excellent Blu-Ray player. A star of evenings with friends or family, the WII must now face the Xbox 360 and its Kinect motion sensor which sends the controls back to prehistory! Nothing new is planned in this area...

TELEPHONY

On the fringes of the essential iPhone 4 powered by Apple's iOS, we find nice Android smartphones like the Milestone 2 or the HTC Desire HDUnlike the PC world where Windows 7 is almost unanimously popular, Microsoft seems to be struggling to attract customers and few Windows Phones are generating enthusiasm.

Source : http://hightech.rdc.fr