It’s the busiest shopping week of the season and here with some great gift ideas sure to please anyone on your list is David Gregg, Senior Editor of BehindtheBuy.com.
HP Stream 11 and Stream 13 Notebook Computers
This year, spread holiday cheer with two units from HP’s newest Stream Family of products – the HP Stream 11 and Stream 13 notebook PCs.
The new HP Stream 11 is the best of both worlds – a thin, light and affordable notebook PC with the power for most every day computing tasks, all on a 11.6-inch HD display.
It comes with free cloud storage for instant access and sharing of content with 1TB of Microsoft OneDrive for one year and Office 365 Personal for one year to edit, share or collaborate in real-time using Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and One Note.
The fanless design with Intel Celeron processor and 32GB of eMMC flash memory allows for quiet, cool operation and quick file recall.
Let your personality shine with stylish colors like Orchid Magenta and Horizon Blue.
PRICE: $199; http://store.hp.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ContentView?eSpotName=Stream11&storeId=10151&langId=-1&catalogId=10051
HP Stream 13 Notebook
The revolutionary HP Stream 13 is a brand new, stylish cloud-connected Windows PC built for cloud computing on-the-go. The thin, sleek design is available in colors like Orchid Magenta and Horizon Blue. With a 13.3-inch diagonal HD display, it includes 200MB of free 4G data each month with no annual contract for the life of the device! DTS Studio Sound and quad speakers provide rich sounds for a concert-like experience.
PRICE: Starting at $229; http://store.hp.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ContentView?eSpotName=Stream13&storeId=10151&langId=-1&catalogId=10051&jumpid=cp_r163_us/en/pc_cons/nextgen/stream/buynow/stream13/desktop
Honeywell Lyric Thermostat
The Lyric thermostat is Honeywell’s latest connected home offering, and a reinvention of the iconic Honeywell Round from 1953. Built for busy families whose schedules are always changing, the Lyric thermostat syncs with your smartphone – geofencing – to deliver comfort when you’re home and savings when you’re away. With the smartphone/tablet app (iOS and Android), homeowners can:
o Adjust their home comfort
o Create customizable Shortcut settings, such as a sleep or workout mode
o Receive Smart Cues about their home’s HVAC system, such as if a filter needs to be changed or if temperatures have gone past a certain point, or even schedule a contractor visit
The Fine Tune feature factors indoor and outdoor temperature, humidity, and weather to provide the most comfortable temperature for homeowners (no other DIY, Wi-Fi thermostat on the market today does that).
Available now at Lowe’s, Home Depot, and Best Buy stores and online.
PRICE: $279; http://lyric.honeywell.com
Dyson DC59 Motorhead
The new Dyson DC59 Motorhead is the perfect vacuum to gift this holiday. It’s light weight and cordless design is for quick cleans in your home throughout the busy holiday season and beyond – no need to lug out a big corded vacuum for a small mess. The DC59 Motorhead has better overall performance across all floor types than the top 5 best-selling full-size corded vacuums, without the hassle of a cord!
Available on Dyson.com and major retailers for a special Black Friday price of $399.99 (reg. $549)
The DC59 Motorhead and many other Dysons are on sale for up to $150 off from November 27th through December 1st, 2014
PRICE: $399.99 (Black Friday Week only!); www.Dyson.com