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Tom's Holiday Buying Guide

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the tons-of-stuff-to-crave dept.

Thoreau writes "With the holidays just around the corner, it's nice to have some help in finding just the right gift for your gadget hungry friends and family. Tom's Hardware seems to think they have the answers for this year's holiday season. Everything from Swiss Army memory sticks, to monitors that Bill Gates couldn't even afford!"

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  1. Argh! by nek · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Kind of hard to read this article at work with dumbass geekboy-Mrs. Claus fantasy pictures plastered everywhere.

  2. Good model :) by dwipal · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Most of the things are quite expensive for my range, but a good summary (and a even better model) though. I was hoping they also included a "moded xbox" in it ;).

  3. Just in case you missed it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    There is a girl in the picture. She's wearing a Santa Costume.

  4. Usual Tom's hyperbole by Junior+J.+Junior+III · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I see the usual Tom's Hardware hyperbole is now corrupting Slashdot's tradition of journalistic integrity.

    "Monitors that Bill Gates can't even afford?" Bill Gates can afford anything. Entire WALLS of his 9000 sq ft. house are comprised of monitors. Tom's is a consumer whore site that used to publish half-decent articles. Now all they do is hype and shill products.

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  5. They need a warning on this Slashdot article ... by YetAnotherName · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ... "NOT SAFE FOR WORK".

  6. New Server by Doc+Ruby · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If Tom has all the answers about PC HW, including performance, how come they can't handle a run of the mill slashdotting after all these years, when Slashdot itself can handle it?

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  7. All I want... by Malc · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ... is to sit down with my friends and family and some good ales and enjoy life and share some experiences with them. I try to do it all year around, but people seem to make a bigger effort at Christmas (a.k.a euphemistically in a large fundamentalist Christian superpower as "the holidays") that results in better and more cherished memories. All this materialistic crap can be damned: I spent all my present money on airline tickets to the UK (where my family lives) because seeing people is better than a quick chat on the phone or sending presents with that missplaced expectation that the recipients are then beholden to you in some stupid way.

  8. Re:Mrs Claus by doublem · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Exactly HOW skanky looking is she

    Too Skanky for WWE broadcast, but just right for the Pay Per View 18 and over special.

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  9. NSFW by Jucius+Maximus · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Seriously, there should be a warning in the post about this.

    1. Re:NSFW by Nos. · · Score: 2, Insightful

      I could understand if this is was an article about a new security patch or a new version of a particular app/os. However, this is a holiday gift buying guide. A holiday gift buying guide is not suitable for work at all, regardless of the content on the page.

  10. Re:More American Centric crap on Slashdot ... by Stone316 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    When will you realize your browsing an American based site? I don't browse British or Chinese portals and complain....

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