Steam Machines might finally be on their way this holiday, but if you want a fully customizable PC for the living room, Origin has your ticket. Whether you simply want a home theater system or a full-on gaming rig, you'll be able to fully customize the configuration of the Omega with high-end processors and GPUs as powerful as the Nvidia Titan X.
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Apple's thin-and-light laptop remains one of our favorites, even without a Retina display. It weighs less than 3 pounds, slips into a bag without fuss and lasts up to 12 hours – really. And yet it's not low-powered, like a netbook. This laptop will handle all of your demanding tasks for years, especially when maxed out to 8GB of RAM.
If you want to really win the holidays this year, pick up this most reasonable of 4K TVs. At a native resolution of 2160p and soaring in well under $1,000, this is not only one of the cheapest screens on the market, but also one of the best. Well, your loved one will need some way to watch their new Roku 4 or Amazon Fire TV, right?
The "tablet that can replace your laptop" has finally been perfected to the point that we can confidently say that. If you or a loved one is looking for a device that can be both a tablet and laptop for you, and do it well, then you've just found it. With beefy hardware inside and an improved Type Cover and Surface Pen outside, you're looking at the ultimate two-fer.
The Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook earned the highest marks from techradar in our review, and it continues to be one of the best laptops of 2015. Not only does it benefit from an attractive price, its display puts many machines' screens to shame. Dell hit it out of the park with the XPS 13, and your gift-giving will be a home run, thanks to to this gorgeous machine, too.
There are a slew of Steam Machines in the works, but the Alienware Alpha has beat them all to the punch. Both powerful and beautiful, this PC-meets-console is fantastic for PC gamers who want to play their Steam libraries in the living room with friends. But even more so, the console diehard can look to this a lovely introduction into PC gaming.
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The Lumix LX100 is a compact, point-and-shoot camera with a large image sensor and advanced controls that rivals more advanced mirrorless shooters. With this camera, you'll be able to capture amazing photos in low light, stunning color accuracy and details that rival many DSLRs.
What better way to spend the holidays than sitting around the living room watching old family movies? The BenQ W1070 can project a 200-foot image in full HD with 2,000 lumens of brightness. It's super easy to set up, and it's got speakers that can project from one end of a common area to the other.
With its PB287Q, a 28-inch monitor that's just as good for general tasks as it is for hardcore gaming, Asus has made the dream of 4K one that's easier to realize. But the investment would be all for naught if Asus were to forget about the other components that make for a good monitor. Nope, it's all here. 1 millisecond response time, 60Hz refresh rate and tons of ports.
This certainly isn't the newest camera on the block, but for the money, it's definitely among the best. With a 12-megapixel sensor, a 28-112mm, 4x zoom lens with strong aperture and an electronic viewfinder to control it all with, this could be a loved one's go-to camera for, well, almost everything. Now, they'll have no excuse for cruddy Christmas photos.
