I personally didn't ask for anything this year. However, I'm planning on buying/building a new computer for myself after Christmas (when hopefully the price of the new Core i7 stuff will go down a bit and become more available). My current computer is five years old and starting to really feel the pain of my photo editing, presentations, documents, gaming, ect.
As far as everyone else, I figure they're getting either gift certificates or some cash. I'm not going crazy this year shopping before Christmas and neither is the rest of my family.
With that said, everyone is getting a nice gift from my near 90 year old grandmother, as she is paying for everyone in the family to spend a week in Aruba this upcoming January. She figures she doesn't have too much time left, and wants to spend the time she does have left with the family while she is still in good shape and can still travel. To make things even better I just found out I have enough airline miles racked up over the years to convert my seats to first class. I'm hoping that's a good sign of things to come and we wind up having a great trip.