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New Year's Hi-Tec gifts - cheap and useful

09.01.2004

The journalists of the newspaper "The Washington Post" conducted an unusual study. On the eve of Christmas and New Year, they tried to compile a list of gifts that would be nice for a computer lover and that, at the same time, would not hit too hard on the giver's pocket. Accordingly, none of the selected items should have cost more than 50 USD.

In the first place were blank discs for recording digital computer or DVD discs. As they say, cheap and cheerful. Well, if you also add a special marker to the disk, with which you can make notes on the disks about what is actually recorded on the disc, then the recipient should generally be completely delighted.

The second place was given by the American journalists to "branded" programs for burning CDs - a gift box with stickers for discs and the program itself costs less than the 50 USD stipulated in the condition. In Russia, however, free software products are used for the same purposes ...

In third place are anti-virus programs, which any computer owner will be happy with. Taking into account the specifics of Russia, such a purchase will cost no more than the cost of a pirated CD, however, adherents of legal software can really meet the amount of up to 50 USD. The gift will look solid and prestigious.

And, finally, in fourth place were various kinds of stands and cases for storing CDs and now almost disappearing floppy disks. These are covers for handheld computers and all sorts of "computer little things" like flash drives made in the form of key fobs or other "fun things" connected to a USB port at a price of around 20...40 USD.

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