Gadgetory

if you're stumped for a gift this holiday season cnet is here to help our annual holiday gift guide collects the best products with the widest range of prices for every budget but to cut to the chase this top 5 will reveal seeing as top gift picks for the holidays and since they're all pretty much equally amazing I sorted these roughly in order of the popularity of their product category starting off at number 5 the Microsoft Xbox one while the sony ps4 gamers have been waiting a long time for these new consoles the Xbox one is the more expensive of the two but it is making its debut with more high-profile games time will tell which one of these is going to win the war for our living room but if you want to kill our new system and the games to go with it the Xbox one is the one HDTV comes in at number 4 the panasonic tc-p st60 editors choice and one of the last plasma TVs we might ever see from Panasonic underneath all the LED LCD hype and the looming monster of 4k TVs that no one needs plasma is still the best option when it comes to picture quality image contrast and value you're still living with a small sad little TV I would jump on this one before it disappears at number 3 apple macbook air 13-inch sad to say but even after the explosion of Windows 8 laptops and hybrids this year the macbook air is still our go-to machine for most users it's beautiful light fast easy to fall in love with and there's also one of the toughest laptops to ever survive are always on torture test speaking of Apple a tablet comes in at number two the apple ipad mini that's right the mini now updated with the retina display yeah the ipad air is great but most people already know what that size of ipad is all about sure that ipad air is lighter now but it's still not as light as the ipad mini it's great for reading great for traveling perfect for kids and a hundred dollars less than the ipad air and that's where the apple love ends will top off this list with our top smartphone pic and for us that's the samsung galaxy s4 everybody loves this phone it's on every carrier the screen is beautiful takes great pictures and it's very fast now that we keep our smartphones on us all day every day upgrade like this is something that makes a big impact so there you go five of the hottest products from our scene at Holiday Gift Guide you can find the whole thing over at holiday cnet com or more top 5s for me including the best gifts under a hundred dollars top 5 cnet com Donald Bell thanks for watching