The team here at Gear Diary is very stoked to have been chosen as one of the fifty websites participating in the HP Magic Giveaway, sponsored by HP and Microsoft. You’ll be seeing a lot more information on this in the coming month, but for now – a teaser..
Each of the fifty participating websites will be giving away a prize package composed of these items:
Hardware
• HP TouchSmart IQ816 PC
• HP HDX 18 series Premium Notebook PC
• HP MediaSmart Connect
• HP Pavilion dv4 series Entertainment Notebook PC (with Windows Live)
• HP Mini 1000 (with XP)
Accessories
• HP Photosmart C6380 Wireless AIO (printer)
• HP 564 Photo Value Pak
Software
• Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate/Home Premium or Microsoft Windows XP pre-installed on all units (Mini 1000 runs XP)
• Microsoft Office Home and Student Edition 2007 (Student-Teacher Edition) – 1 DVD with 3 licenses
• Microsoft Windows Live
• Corel VideoStudio X2
Entertainment
• Kung Fu Panda (2 widescreen DVDs; 1 widescreen Blu-ray disc)
Total value: >US$6000
If you think that the list contains an overwhelming amount of swag for just one person to win, then we are on the same page.
What I would like to see – in fact, what I think all of the other sites participating in the giveaway would like to see – is a group of 50 winners who would then decide to share the magic of their big win with at least one other person – or more!
Let’s face it, the Holidays are looking lean for everyone, but this is one way for fifty different people to be heroes to so many others. Can you imagine the joy you’d spread by gifting some of this package to a deserving family, or to a college student, a school, a favorite non-profit organization…or even to a friend who has had a really hard year?
The idea is to spread the magic; are you up for it?
The 50 participating websites are:
Gotta Be Mobile
Barb’s Connected World
Geek.com
Gear Live
Neowin
Small Biz Vista
JK On the Run
BostonPocketPC
Notebooks.com
Geekzone
I Started Something
Bleeping Computer
The Gadgeteer
Planet x64
Digital Home Thoughts
Digital Inspiration
Geeks!
MediaBlab
Geek News Central
The Digital Lifestyle
GearDiary
Last 100
Geeks To Go!
Liliputing
OSNN
Slashdot Review
SlashGear
Gadgetell
Windows Connected
Techie Diva
One Day, One Job
Student Bloggers
Study Hacks – Demystifying College Success
HackCollege
Noticias Tech
Eliax
La Bitácora de Erwin Ried
Carlos Alberto
InfoWester
GeeksRoom
CíberPrensa
Unión de Bloggers Hispanos
Living – In Theory
Moosh in Indy
Morningside Mom
Thoughts on poetics & tech
Techmamas
Stop, Drop & Blog
Down-to-Earth Mama
merlot mom
You can enter every site’s contest, and the contests are open to people located anywhere in the world.
Let it sink in for just a moment that each site will be giving away all of the following and more…
The HP HDX 18 series Premium Notebook PC
HP Pavilion dv4 series Entertainment Notebook PC (with Windows Live)
HP Photosmart C6380 Wireless AIO (printer)
The Remote Control for the HP TouchSmart IQ816 PC
The Remote for the HP HDX 18 series Premium Notebook PC
Now start daydreaming about how you could change someone else’s holiday season by sharing a portion of this >$6000 prize package if you were to win.
We’ll post details on Gear Diary’s giveaway soon; we’ll also feature highlights of other sites’ giveaways, too.
Stay tuned… 
Link: HP Magic Giveaway
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