The 2017 Ars Technica gadget gift guide Power user edition
0The 2017 Ars Technica gadget gift guide Power-user edition.
It’s the holidays, which means it’s once again time to rack your brain in search of the right gifts for the right people. If someone on your list is into tech, though, we’ve got your back.
For this year’s edition of the Ars Technica holiday gift guide, we’re breaking down our recommendations into themes. Our fourth and final crop of recommendations are for power users, or people who immerse themselves in tech and demand high utility or high performance.
Many of the items below may skew on the pricey side as a result, but they should still serve as a reminder that you get what you pay for.
EnlargeSynologyYou’d get a NAS (or network-attached storage) for someone who has tons of data—a collection of downloaded movies and albums, for instance—and wants to access it across multiple devices. Synology’s DS218+ should cover a good swath of that niche market here: it’s relatively quick, it supports 4K video transcoding (which gives it some futureproofing), it has a couple of USB 3.0 ports for backing up and sharing data, and its 2GB of included RAM can be upgraded to 6GB to make it more robust.