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Mac Gift Guide: 10 Gifts for Apple Mac Fans
It's that time of year again to decide what to get for that special Mac Lover or Apple Fans on your shopping list. Let iFunia take you window shopping through all the best and brightest buying ideas for Apple Mac Fans and more with our handy-dandy 2011 Holiday Buyer's Guide.
Best gifts for Apple Mac fans - Incase 13" Protective Sleeve Deluxe
I went into the store looking for a nice case for my son and I went straight for the Incase 13" Protective Sleeve Deluxe. I tested it out in the store and it fits wonderfully. I love the soft inside, and the material of the case feels fantastic overall. It is small enough to fit inside another bag easily or can be taken on its own since it has a zippered section on its spine that provides easy access to notebook's MagSafe power port for convenient in-sleeve charging.
Best gifts for Apple Mac fans - Rain Design mStand
I never considered of getting this, and then I accidentally got the Rain Design mStand as a gift. I think it is highly practical especially if you spend plenty of time on your desk because this will raise your Mac closer to the eye level, which made my neck and shoulder and the eye all comfortable. Appearance is awesome especially exterior integrity along with your aluminum Mac will make your desk beautiful and overall desk environment will be great.
Best gifts for Apple Mac fans - Media-Converter
Media-Converter makes your every DVD and video conversion possible on Mac, you can use to rip DVD and convert video(including HD) into numerous video/audio formats for use on personal computers or popular portable players. It is Mac is accessible, has an Apple-like interface, easy to use and very fast in video processing, in my tests, the program did very well in the conversion of multiple file formats for different outputs. Specifically tested the output to iPhone MPEG-4 and the result could not be better.
Best gifts for Apple Mac fans - Gaming Mouse
The Cyborg R.A.T.7 gaming mouse uses the latest generation "twin eye" laser sensor, which reads each axis separately for pinpoint accuracy and tracks up to a remarkable 6 meters per second. Pro gamers who favor low sensitivity with high movement speed preferences will always experience precise tracking. With two regular left and right mouse buttons and you have a total of eight buttons available to punish your competition.
Best gifts for Apple Mac fans - Livescribe Echo 4GB Smartpen
Livescribe Echo 4GB Smartpen is a great product for those in need of a way to hang on to notes and corresponding audio that are searchable and shareable. Students are the greatest benefactor of this device through its simple operation and use in a classroom/lecture setting. It doesn't get any easier to share and/or email notes and audio! The associated website is also loaded with publicly shared "pencasts" that can easily be accessed with any Mac or PC.
Best gifts for Apple Mac fans - Time Capsule
Back up a lifetime's worth of memories with Time Capsule, a wireless hard drive that works seamlessly with Time Machine in Mac OS X. It's also a full-featured 802.11n Wi-Fi base station with simultaneous dual-band support. In the holiday time you can set up a separate Wi-Fi network with a separate password for your visitors. Simply enable the guest networking feature, and your guests can use the Internet but can't access other parts of your private network.
Best gifts for Apple Mac fans - Creative Inspire T12 Speakers
I was looking for nice looking speakers that did not take up a lot space on my desk. Something that didn't look funky. I know the Creative brand and thought to give these a try. I have two kids so that means I can't play my music when they're sleeping. But the T12s have a headphone jack in the front, and when I plug in my headphones it directs all the sound out of the headphone jack and not the speakers. When I unplug the headphones, the sound comes back out from the speakers.
Best gifts for Apple Mac fans - Apogee JAM Guitar Input
Want to get something for music lover? Now you can have a pocket-sized, plug in and play interface at an unprecedented price and experience ultimate tone with the guitar amps and effects in GarageBand or other compatible applications. Jam is a premium digital device featuring PureDIGITAL technology that delivers your guitar's true tone to your iPad, iPhone, or Mac without compromise. You will notice the difference between the sound quality of Jam and other similar products.
Best gifts for Apple Mac fans - Elgato EyeTV HD Video Recorder
EyeTV HD is a full-featured DVR for your Mac that captures television from your cable or satellite receiver and delivers it live to your Mac in full HD. It gives you full access to all the content in your premium channel package by connecting your Mac directly to your cable or satellite receiver. I use it with a Comcast cable box. Can't believe how well it works. Now I can record movies from my HD channels and the EyeTV transfers them automatically to iTunes for my iPad.
Best gifts for Apple Mac fans - Eye-Fi Pro X2 8GB SDHC Wi-Fi Memory Card
The Eye-Fi card and its ability to transfer images wirelessly to your computer, iPad, or a web service is one of my favorite things to come along in years! I bought two eye-fi geo cards for a recent trip to Italy. I took over 1200 photos in Rome, Herculanem, Naples, Florence and Venice, this little card is probably the best thing I have purchased for my camera. My pictures actually make it from the camera to the computer now for everyone to be able to enjoy.
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...of course, if you feel really flush and actually want to buy someone a Mac or iPad - lucky old them - then take a look at Should I get an iPad or a macbook laptop? Which will help guide you through to a suitable model and offer you only the best of the ones. And, as always, if you have any red hot tips for gift ideas of your own, then do let us know. Good luck.
