Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Tech Shopping at Tech Heaven!”.
This video is sponsored by microcenter, what’s going on guys travis consumer and we are back in tech, heaven baby and i figured what better place to do some holiday shopping than micro center for us tech heads. This is the place to be so today we’re going to check out some awesome stuff, which i think will make great gifts for somebody you might be shopping for or maybe for yourself. So we’ve got the whole story to ourselves. Let’S have a look around so guys.
A store like micro center is all about pc gaming, but they’ve also got gaming laptops. This right here is the msi katana gf66. Now, if you’re looking for a budget-friendly gaming laptop a laptop that may pretty much, let you be able to play games, maybe not on the craziest settings, but this thing is equipped with an rtx 3050 ti, so you’ll definitely be able to get a lot of gaming Done but you don’t want to spend a ton of money.
This is a sub 1 000 laptop that you might want to consider. You know yeah. I think i might actually pick one of these up myself.
I should have a cart now. This guy’s packing a 144 hertz display, but it doesn’t hurt to have uh an extra monitor just in case all right. So sticking in the realm of msi, i like msi products.
I think they make really solid stuff, so we’ve got four msi monitors to choose from and they’re all different we’ve got the ultra wide over. Here we’ve got this standard, one which is 165 hertz 144 got a larger one here, but it’s also 144.. I want a fast screen, so this part of msi’s optics line.
This is the g273q series. You know naming schemes guys these model numbers are crazy. This one is 279.99, but it’s a 27 inch monitor it’s very fast. I like this, but i also like the fact that it’s just a bit of a brighter panel than the other msi stuff, so i’m gon na pick one of these up to so guys. Do we just build like a a laptop setup for the holidays? Is that what we’re doing? No? No, no jay, that’s not what we’re doing jay! But if you did want to build that setup, we could pick up the lg ultra gear wireless bluetooth, gaming speaker, which is actually pretty insane now. It’S great is that you can of course, connect this thing to a pc. It’S got different, sound settings, so you can change up your eq. So if you’re playing like a first person shooter or something like that, you can switch the different settings to get the perfect sound for what you’re using it for, but you can also connect it through bluetooth. So if you can connect it to your phone, it has an optical cable, so you can connect it to like even a tv. But what’s a nice bonus here besides, these rgb lights is that it also has a microphone. So if you’re taking conference calls zoom calls that kind of thing you’ll be able to hear all the audio in nice quality as well as just being able to speak into this guy.
Let’S pick one up jay now guys an all-time favorite for me in terms of like holiday recommendations is actually this guy, the oculus quest 2.. Now we’ve been using the oculus for years now, since, like the very first one now, we’ve got the oculus quest 2. This is their portable version that you can pretty much just throw on your head and you can start playing you don’t need to connect it to a computer or anything like that, and the vr experience here has always been legit and there’s a lot more. You can do than just gaming you can watch shows you can immerse yourself in like different experiences.
Take you to places you’ve never been. Vr is really cool. This guy definitely one of my favorite recommendations for the holidays. Now we did talk about gaming, pcs, and i know there are tons of parents out there who might want to get their kids a gaming pc might not know exactly what is necessary, or what goes into that. The nice thing about microcenter here is that they’ve got a ton of guys who are in the build your own section, and these guys they can walk you through it. They can help.
You pick all the components that you didn’t know was necessary for a pc. They can help pick. All of that and they’ll probably ask you like three questions to really make sure that this build works for whoever you’re buying it.
For what games do they play? What games do they want to play and your budget, so they can kind of point you in the right direction. Work within the amount that you want to pay and what’s even nicer here, is that you don’t just have to buy the components and then figure out how to build it. They’Ll actually build it for you, and if you come early enough, they can probably build it.
The same day or at the latest the next day, which is just crazy, even myself, i use them sometimes to help me make sure i get the right stuff i need for my builds and it works guys and they can do it all, for you takes a Lot of the guesswork out of it, i think, there’s a really good option in case you might want to get a gaming pc for your son, daughter or whoever else. Okay, guys, i feel like we got some decent stuff, but what, if you’re on a budget right? What, if you don’t want to spend hundreds of bucks, although this is a pretty inexpensive, monitor? Let’S say if you wanted something cheaper? What could you pick up now? Let’S say you’re console gaming, maybe you’re not on the pc side of things yet and you’re. Looking for a good headset, i’ve always been a fan of the astro a10s.
Now i like these, because not only are they pretty inexpensive they’re what 53 bucks uh, but i like the quality that you get out of here and they’re really durable. So if you’re, one of those those folks who who rage when they lose – and you know you it’s not gon na break on you – really it shouldn’t no, no i’ve tossed these things around before, not because i was raging or anything jay uh. But these things are really legitimate in terms of like their durability, definitely a solid choice. They got the xbox version. They got the playstation version over here.
I’M gon na go with the playstation version. They match this matches the ps5 pretty. Well too, it’s a go. Wait! A minute is this: a superman microfiber cloth, jay 99 cents. Can we can i do it? Can i be superman and grab the whole thing? No, no! I’M not gon na do that, but we’ll get to okay micro center. I see you all right.
So if you’ve got like the budding streamer the person who wants to get on twitch and build up his following or her following, listen the blue yeti, nano isla. Oh, they got it in black. These are solid. Microphones.
You guys these sound crystal clear. This is a good pickup right here. I like it in black, but you know what there are other microphones that what is that? That’S like a hundred bucks.
Ah there it goes. The elgato wave 3 is also really nice. The audio from this is nuts. This one costs 50 bucks more. So if you’re on a budget, you can definitely check out the blue yeti nano.
I think that one’s a solid buy, but between those two i love what i get out of them. This m7 podcast microphone, though, if they’re trying to take it up a level and not just do like streaming, they want to do podcasts as well. This is like cream of the crop stuff and it’s 2.50. You know if you’ve got to invest in your future.
You guys or someone else’s future for the holidays. That’S a good, buy. Let’S get the yeti nano, though this i know for sure, is legit and they had it in black. This is so nice.
The backpacks are calling my name anyway, we’re looking for smart home stuff. Now my center has a lot of those, so i like this section right here, you guys, if you wanted to maybe get your dad some home security cameras or something like that. These are great options from wise uh, because not only are they pretty inexpensive. This is like 50 bucks, 36 bucks over here. Very, very cheap and they’ve got good quality. This one i like a lot.
This is the wise cam pan. Now i really like this one, because you can place it pretty much anywhere, but you’re not limited to what it’s staring at. You can actually go into the app have it turn around a little bit see what’s going on around you. That gives you way more visibility. So that you can see what’s going on inside an entire room, let’s grab one of these. This is a good buy, oh check this out. Jay energizer makes rgb lights now, so smart lighting, 29 bucks 16 feet or five meters. If you see streamers or people who have like these cool looking bedrooms, they got these guys all over, or maybe you just want some smooth ambient light in your room.
These are the things you want to pick up. Rgb strips 30 bucks, though energizer jay. I say we we pick this up yeah, give it a try. Maybe two we get two jay: okay, carl, what you think fire stick? What’S the difference here between the light now, i’m guessing there’s no 4k 1080p quad core.
You can still access alexa. So this is, if you don’t have like a 4k tv, but you still want access to like all the smart, apps and alexa. You can pretty much pick this up but like it can still control like the things that you have in your smart home, like smart lights, all that good stuff, and it’s only 30 bucks. That’S not bad. It comes with a remote car. I feel like you would like this.
I would i need one. You need one leave me taking care of my little cousin. I got you kazoo, listen, so we’ve got this nice laptop. I feel like oh look at this lights this.
This uh headphone stand. Oh, so this is a lighting tower that also acts as a headphone stand. Oh 139.. Oh it comes with two.
Oh that makes sense and you can have the optional headphone stand holder. So if you’ve got like a nice desk setup that you want to add some cool looking lights to this is the starter kit, the iq lt100. I feel like this could make a great gift too, for someone who’s really proud of their desk setup. Maybe they’ve got like a nice pc, uh they’ve got like their mouse and keyboard all set up all that good stuff, but they want to add a little bit more flair to it. If you’re not going to throw on like rgb strips to the desk, you can throw this on and look at the setup. Look look at the kind of setup that it makes. I’M not gon na lie merry christmas to me all right, jay. I think we’ve done enough rgb, so i need you to relax [ Laughter ]. Oh, that is a very clean keyboard.
Okay, so they’ve got the rog strix scope, nx tkl, moonlight white. Oh steelseries has a a nice white version. What is going on these look so sick, so my thing is that there’s all these nice looking keyboards without the number pad, but look at this guy right here.
This is the rog claymore ii. If you’ve got somebody who has like an awesome setup, but they want to switch it up every now and then not only do you have the customizable rgb lights on the keys, but you have a removable number pad and that’s actually huge if you want to go For that more minimal look, you can always go ahead, remove it and you’ve got a similar feel to something like this, but maybe when they want to do a little bit more, they can attach this to it, and this is all wireless. So it’s wireless. It’S rgb! This is listen if i had, if somebody bought me this for christmas. I’D be very happy now that rog is on the premium side, but we’ve got the logitech g213, which is this keyboard right here, so this one’s only 50 bucks. This is actually a pretty nice option because you can still go ahead and customize the lights on here, but it also gives you access to a lot of keys in the top right. Music controls volume controls. These are things you don’t typically see, often unless it’s like a really high-end uh keyboard. So having these extra controls is definitely nice and you still get the rgb stuff and it comes with a built-in wrist rest uh.
So it should be a really comfortable keyboard. I like this, a lot for just 50 bucks. No, let’s put my blinders up.
My blinders aren’t working now. If you guys know me, you know i kind of have an obsession with microfiber cloths and they have like a whole section dedicated to it. I know we picked up some solution and this one has a little microfiber, but we want more all right guys, so i think we’ve got our haul over here tons of great options for the holidays.
Now this is micro center. So a lot of this stuff is geared towards, of course, pcs gaming and we’ve got some smart home stuff in here as well. It’S also a wide variety but i’ll put some of my other favorite or recommendations down below in the description for you guys to check out now.
All of this is cool, but i promise you one thing guys if you’ve got a really techie person in your life that you want to pick something up for take my word, for it bring them into a store if it’s available, they have like 25 locations across The country, if one is close by take them into the store, let them experience it. Let them hand pick something from here and i think they’ll enjoy that a lot just take my word for it. This is tech, heaven i think they’ll like it uh, but that about wraps it up for this video guys. Hopefully you enjoyed it if you did be the cool guy girl that gives this video a thumbs up i’ll catch you guys in the next one. Until then, it’s your average consumer peace carl. What else do you want? You want? You want a laptop son.
What’S up, i already got you one! Stop .