The Ars Holiday Gift Guide 2018—good tech for the power user in your life

Enlarge / A power user, desperately hoping for a NAS this year, can't help themselves and must rip into this beautifully wrapped gift. (credit: Aurich / Thinkstock)

After focusing on gifts for the road and gifts for the home, Ars' third installment in our 2018 Holiday Gift Guide goes a different route. Since Ars is a site for people who don't mind digging deep into how tech works, the theme today is gift ideas for "power users"-those who are more involved with modern tech and can't stand to use less than fully featured gear.

Basically, these items seem tailor-made for the people in your life who may already read a site like Ars Technica. The protocol here is the same as it was with our first two guides: we've looked back on a year of gadget testing and rounded up a smattering of items we think would make your loved one happy. Fair warning: because this particular guide is aimed at people who demand high utility and/or high performance, some of the items below are a little pricey. But, as always, you get what you pay for.

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