Having already snagged a Polaroid PoGo for mom and a Roomba for your best friend since grade school, it’s time for the least savory holiday shopping task: coworkers. Love them or hate them, you work with them, and a good-natured exchange of gifts during the holidays never hurt morale at the office. Considering you spend 40 hours a week with these people, you should have some idea what they’re into – but on the other hand, anything over the $50 level is definitely out. With that in mind, here are a few fun techie gifts for every office personality, all in an affordable price range.
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Alienware Introduces M17 Gaming Notebook
Dell subsidiary Alienware has announced its new M17 gaming notebook, marking the first time an Alienware notebook has offered ATI CrossFireX technology, offering dual ATI mobility Radeon HD 3870 graphics controllers to push those pixels around. The system also sports a Intel Core 2 Duo or Intel Core 2 Extreme QX93000 processors, DDR memory, and a 17-inch 1,920 by 1,200 pixel display.
“By incorporating the all-out performance of CrossFireX graphics and quad-core processing into Alienware’s award-winning notebook lineup, the M17 delivers an impressive feature set at a price point that doesn’t break the bank,” said Alienware product and marketing VP Frank Azor, in a statement.
Intel Launches Three Quad-Core CPUs
Intel Corporation has decided to use this year’s CES as a way to put pressure on rival chipmaker AMD by introducing three new quad-core processors, the Core 2 Quad and two entries in the Xeon 3200 series. Although quad-core offerings from Intel aren’t new, the company is now taking the technology out of servers, research labs, and high-end computing tasks and towards the general consumer market—and Intel has sworn up and down it’s working hard with software vendors to create the types of multi-threaded applications which can take full advantage of the multiple processor cores.
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