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The HP Magic Giveaway has begun on Neowin today.

The HP Magic Giveaway, is a competition that enables 50 top blogs to run their own contests to give away 50 prize packages whose value exceeds $6000. Microsoft and HP have decided, Neowin is one of the top blogs, and we will be participating in this giant giveaway.

Neowin's giveaway has begun today and the competition will last 1 week. We are asking members to make the Neowin logo out of real life elements and make it look as magical as possible. You could make the logo out of bananas, chairs or anything you can get your hands on. Be as creative as possible and take a picture of the finished product. Here's an example of a magical Neowin logo from the real world we are looking for:



Everyone who is registered at Neowin.net is free to enter and the prize list can be found below:

• 1st Place - HP HDX 18 series Premium Notebook PC
• 2nd Place - HP Pavilion dv4 series Entertainment Notebook PC
• 3rd Place - HP Mini 1000
• 4th Place - HP MediaSmart Connect
• 5th Place - HP Photosmart C6380 Wireless AIO multifunction and a HP 564 Photo Value Pack
• 6th Place - Microsoft Office 2007 Home and Student Edition
• 7th Place - Corel VideoStudio X2
• 8th Place - Kung Fu Panda DVD

You may have noticed that the HP TouchSmart is absent in our giveaway, we have a reason for this. We plan to donate this system to a children's hospice in the spirit of giving and sharing during this holiday giveaway. We have not chosen the exact charity yet but we are in discussions with several charities in the UK who provide care and comfort to children with terminal illnesses and incurable conditions. Our aim is to present the PC to the charity and document its use. We will provide the system with a test version of Windows 7 for the charity to use temporarily and will interview the children and workers to see what the potential benefits of touch based computing, with Windows 7 and HP's TouchSmart system, could bring. After our visit we will revert the system back to Vista until Windows 7 is RTM. Further details of the Charity and our coverage of this will be forthcoming.

For full details of our contest and a chance to enter please visit our entry page. If you would like to view the current entries in the competition then please click here (note, private entries will not be displayed until the closing date).

Don't forget you can also enter every other sites contest to ensure you have a better chance of winning. Check out the schedule below. Good luck!

View: Enter Competition
View: View current entries


Courtesy of Long Zheng