Neowin Competition: Annual October Giveaway

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Well it’s that time again! This month Neowin celebrated its 8th birthday and to celebrate the fact that we are getting older and greyer (Steve more than me ;)).

Neowin will be giving away some prizes to our readership as a thank you for all of your continued support over the many years.

This year’s prizes include A HP Pavilion DV7 Laptop, hosting packages and even some Neowin mugs

Entry is by replying to this story (registration required)

Prizes This year :

Minthost

4x Entry hosting packages for 1 year (1,000MB storage, 20,000MB bandwidth).

Contrast Hosting

3x PH-01 packages for 1 year (See here for details)

Ste

2x Neowin Coffee Mugs

Dane-Elec

5x 2GB USB memory keys

HP

1x HP Pavilion DV7 Laptop

# Intel Core 2 Duo T9600 (2.8 Ghz)

# HP Webcam

# 640 GB HDD Space (2x 320 GB 5400 Drives)

# 4096 MB DDR2 SDRAM (2 DIMM)

# Blu-ray ROM with SuperMulti DVDR/RW

# Windows Vista Ultimate 64bit with Service Pack 1

# HP Mobile Remote Control

# Mobile Stereo Earbuds

# Integrated HDTV TV Tuner

# Finger Print Reader

# 17 Inch WSXGA High Def Brightview Widescreen Infinity Display

# nVidia GeForce 9600M GT with 512 MB Dedicated Graphics Memory

# Wifi/Bluetooth

# Cardreader Crap

# 8 Cell Battery

Entry & Rules:

All you need to do to be in with a chance of winning one of the great prizes this year, is to reply to this post. It’s a simple as that!

Entry Date:

28th October 2008 – 4th November 2008

Neowin will ONLY pick the winners at random from the list of members who reply to THIS thread.

Neowin reserve the right to withdraw or alter this competition at any time

Winners will be notified via PM or Email within 7 days of the closure date.

Count me in

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