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No, not getting the gaming console he asked for.
Thanks!
If he's got the degree, he's prepared enough. After he gets a job, you'll be in a position where he won't really be practical to get those "Wow!" gifts for anymore—entry-level salary for new grads is pretty great.
It's basically the last "easy" gift you'll ever be able to get him; past that, everything else will require serious thought if you want to give genuinely meaningful gifts. And there are certainly worse gifts to give someone than something he'll likely use almost every time he gets bored for the next few years.
If you're very insistent on not getting him it though, get him a TAOCP (The Art of Computer Programming, by Donald Knuth) boxed set. This would allow you to line up gifts for future years, too, because TAOCP is not a finished series yet, so there will be new entries for the foreseeable future.
Get him another laptop, preferably Dell (just because I have great experience with them) so he can install Ubuntu on it and have a linux dev machine. This way he can develop software for linux servers (such as a web app or data science tool) without resorting to Linux subsystem for linux and all the related shenanigans.
Go for the gaming console. His company will give him a laptop.
Get him another laptop, preferably Dell (just because I have great experience with them) so he can install Ubuntu on it and have a linux dev machine. This way he can develop software for linux servers (such as a web app or data science tool) without resorting to Linux subsystem for linux and all the related shenanigans.