The last Christmas Gift

[Zach's Tech Tips]

So after a long haul of shopping, i've almost finished all my Christmas shopping Though I have one friend left over to buy for and was hoping if you guys could help me decide what to get him. Now he's a very good friend of mine and I'd be happy to spend up to $500 on this gift for him. He basically already has everything from the latest smartphone, multiple smartwatches and $6.5k gaming setup so that crosses out a few things

 

I was hoping that you guys might know of something groundbreaking or new in the tech world that would blow him away. 

Oh and that's 500 AUD

 

Thanks, Merry Christmas

 

Zach

[the crunchiumo]

Vr headset ?

[Guest]

A very large collection of Raspberry Pis. 

What about a gaming server? He has the setup. If he likes games like Arma, Minecraft, Gmod or whatever, giving him a game server might be cool. Not to mention it'd be the gift to keep giving. A lot of people money donate to servers because they like playing on them. 

[crysilis]

5 minutes ago, Zach's Tech Tips said:

So after a long haul of shopping, i've almost finished all my Christmas shopping Though I have one friend left over to buy for and was hoping if you guys could help me decide what to get him. Now he's a very good friend of mine and I'd be happy to spend up to $500 on this gift for him. He basically already has everything from the latest smartphone, multiple smartwatches and $6.5k gaming setup so that crosses out a few things

 

I was hoping that you guys might know of something groundbreaking or new in the tech world that would blow him away. 

Oh and that's 500 AUD

 

Thanks, Merry Christmas

 

Zach

hmmmm get a gpd win a nintendo switch or a smach z for him?

 

but yeah vr headset would do

or maybe buy him a bunch of games

[Zach's Tech Tips]

1 minute ago, the crunchiumo said:

Vr headset ?

He's already got one

Just now, fpo said:

A very large collection of Raspberry Pis. 

What about a gaming server? He has the setup. If he likes games like Arma, Minecraft, Gmod or whatever, giving him a game server might be cool. Not to mention it'd be the gift to keep giving. A lot of people money donate to servers because they like playing on them. 

 

A game server sounds like a great idea, maybe as good as the collection of raspberry pis

[Overlandr]

A NAS if he doesn't have one already? or maybe a racing quadcopter or something?

[the crunchiumo]

how about some nice audio, headphones with a nice amp and dac if hes into that

[Guest]

Just now, Zach's Tech Tips said:

 

A game server sounds like a great idea, maybe as good as the collection of raspberry pis

Why not both? If he likes programming or whatever a raspberry Pi with some accessories, and a game server or server PC would be pretty cool. 400 on that maybe (idk how much one should spend on a server, or how to build one) and then maybe go out with the remaining 100. Go to mcdonalds and get 100 items from the dollar menu. If you have those in australia. 

[Rohime]

Buy him a Google Home or Amazon Echo ... delivery to australia via B&H ... 

 

https://www.bhphotovideo.com

 

[paddy-stone]

I second the proposed NAS as a gift if he doesn't have one already. And if he's someone that likes building their own stuff, just get him the parts.

 

[edit] This build here https://au.pcpartpicker.com/list/sFZ4Yr

 

It's a full build for under $500, skylake mobo and CPU (although low end), but can be upgraded to an i7 in the future if the need ever arises. Case is just one that I personally like and isn't to everyone's taste, and a 3TB HDD WD red included, more can be added easily (up to 3 in the case), and the PSu is a very solid tier 1 PSU that has a 10 year warranty and is overkill for this build, but better to not cheap out on essential components. This build can also be used as a low end normal PC of course, and with just a CPU swap can be a mid range PC very easily.

If going the NAS route, I recommend FreeNAS as it's pretty stable (it's what I use), needs very little maintenance once set up and is easy to add more hard drives to the data pool if you find you need more... you can also ass them in by USB 3.0 etc if you like.

[Velvet Revolver]

What about those self right scooters