Today is day eight of HP and Microsoft’s ‘Back to School and Better Together’ Giveaway, which means that Notebooks.com will begin theirs. Up for grabs is a computer combo containing an HP dv6, an HP Mini 110 and Syncables software – which allows you to keep the larger laptop at home but carry the smaller netbook (synced and carrying all of your data!) when on the go. The Winner will also get a customized Notebooks.com Timbuk2 bag to carry their loot!

From the Notebooks.com post:

This is a raffle style giveaway and we’ll be pulling a random winner using random.org on August 24. You can enter one raffle entry for completing items 1-4 below. If you’d like to dramatically increase your odds of winning you can try your hand at writing guest how-to articles.

1) Earn one raffle entry by subscribing to the Notebooks.com Giveaways email newsletter. We get a lot of gear to giveaway and we’ll notify you next time we run a contest (hint, it kicks off later this month).

2) Earn one raffle entry by letting your Twitter followers know about the contest by tweeting the following: I want to win an HP netbook and HP dv6 from Notebooks.com http://bit.ly/17fEiJ @xavierlanier (click here to send this tweet automatically)

3) Earn one raffle entry for following me on Twitter and saying hi- just send me a message @xavierlanier.

4) Earn one entry by telling us why you want this bundle and what you would do with it in the comments section below.

5) Write how-to articles for notebooks.com that can help our readers as they use or shop for computers. If we publish it you’ll earn 5 raffle entries. You may submit as many how-to articles as you like, though we may or may not publish all of them depending on content and quality.

To increase the odds of your article being published, please consider the following guidelines:
• Tell our readers how to get more our of their notebooks. Do you have tricks on how to use common applications? Can you explain how notebook users can be more productive or get things done faster?
• Entries should be free of grammar and spelling errors.
• Use screenshots, video or images to illustrate your how-to article.
• Explain your idea thoroughly and be sure to keep average users (not geeks) in mind.
• Here’s an example of a tip on how to upgrade an HP Mini’s memory that’s helped a lot of our readers.
• Entries must be original and not be previously published elsewhere.
You can submit your entries by clicking here: Notebooks.com How-To Contest Entries Page

Enter at Notebooks.com.


You have 25 separate chances to win a similar prize package; this is the complete schedule of all upcoming contests:

Good luck! And as always, if you win on any of the sites because you learned about the contest here on Gear Diary, we’d love to hear about it!