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- Rob Bushway
I've been watching our news comments and forum activity quite a bit lately, and would like to thank Aaron Walker and Shan Gee for their support of GBM! A GottaBeMobile.com coffee mug + Red Zune ( 4 gb or 8 gb) is headed your way, Aaron; and a GottaBeMobile.com shirt + a Sony portable CD DVD / RW drive is headed your way Shan Gee! Send me a Private Message in the forums with your contact info.
- Rob Bushway
Jameson Nyeholt just posted about our big Summer Giveaway and is walking away with some loot. How about a 2007 Streets and Trips + an HP shirt? PM me in the forums, Jameson, with your contact info! Keep up the good work, folks. I still have a bunch of stuff to giveaway, and maybe adding to the list  By the way, if you have won something in the past week and have not contacted me, better act quick or I'll be throwing it back in the pile to giveaway. If I don't hear from you within 72 hours, it is going back in.
- Rob Bushway
BluesPapa is our Summer Giveaway winner for the day. I always appreciate your insights and participation on the site! Enjoy the BlueAnt Z9 Bluetooth headset, HP shirt, and Bluebeam PDF Revu shirt. PM me in the forums with your contact info.
- Rob Bushway
Thanks to David Howard for helping out in our forums and for spreading the word about GBM! David is the new owner of Vista Ultimate, a 30 GB black Zune, and a 2 GB Lenovo USB stick. Send me a PM in the forums, David, and I'll get your stuff off to you.
- Rob Bushway
In our continuing effort to " give back" to our readers, we'd like to recognize Jeff Kent (aka Genghis Khent) for his activity and involvement on the GottaBeMobile.com site. Jeff is a frequent contributor in our forums and news articles, as well as offering up his own commentary via his Mobile Barbarian website. He is a valued member of the Tablet PC and Mobile PC community. Enjoy the HTC Advantage! Jeff already owns one, so let's give him the 30 GB Zune.Gonna give the Advantage to Jeff anyway - he's got student that could really use it. How great is that!
- Rob Bushway
Bill Miranda (aka TaxMan) has been following GBM for a while now and is quite dependable for a good comment and insight. He is now the proud owner of a Bluebeam PDF shirt and a Tom Bihn Ristretto bag. That Ristretto bag should hold his MacBook Air quite nicely! You do have a MacBook Air, right? Thanks for your contributions, Bill! Let's keep cracking, folks. I've got a ton of stuff to giveaway
- Rob Bushway
AlexDaryan is a happy owner of a HP 2710p Tablet PC and is quite active in our forums. Today, he is the proud owner of a HP t-shirt and a Linksys Portable Wireless router. Stay tuned and stay active - I just might have another winner up my sleeve....
- Rob Bushway
Kudo's to Gavin Miller for his awesome participation on GBM and in our forums. The great thing about Gavin is that he is just as active today as he always is - very dependable for great advice and insight. Gavin, enjoy your Samsung Q1P Ultra-Mobile PC that will be headed your way soon!
- Rob Bushway
 The HP HDX Dragon made it all the way to Canada, to its' new owner, TabletEnvy and family. It is official: The Dragon is almost bigger than TabletEnvy's girls (who knock the "cute" factor out of this world, btw!). Here is TabletEnvy describing his new prize: Worth the wait? Major understatement. The Dragon has lived up to all my significant expectations, and then some. First impression: it's big! Really big. Hernia-inducing big. The picture shows the Dragon next to my Fujitsu P1610: Bambi, meet Godzilla. I have to keep reminding myself that this 20-plus inch screen is attached to a "laptop" computer. Hardly something I would want to lug to the office every day. However, the Waterfield carry bag is a wonderful addition and something I'll likely use to carry this entertainment centre for short weekend getaways with the family. The Dragon is an absolute speed demon for a laptop. It easily out-specs any of the three desktops at my office (CPU, video card, RAM), and at least matches my main desktop computer at home. I can't wait to see the framerates this baby can handle on Gears of War or Flight Simulator. BlueRay movies are absolutely stunning to watch on this thing. The Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy looks jawdropping, and the sound is stellar. Who'd have imagined putting a subwoofer on a laptop?  My daughters are keeping Splotch busy. When he stowed away in the FedEx shipment in search of some adventure, he got a little more than he bargained for...
Thank you so much to all the folks at GottaBeMobile, HP, and BuzzCorps for providing this magnificent beast. I feel like a spoiled child. And it feels good.
- Rob Bushway
Major thanks to Sumocat for his contributions to the GBM and Tablet PC community, both on our site and on his own. Sumocat has been quite busy today, posting about our contest on his site, and participating in several news and forum discussions. As such, Sumocat is now the proud owner a BatteryGeek.net Portable Powerstation! Sumocat, you should have plenty of juice to power your Toshiba R25 Tablet PC for quite awhile!
- Rob Bushway
I get more gadgets and stuff than I can shake a stick at, and frankly, I'm getting run out of my office with it all. So, I'm going to pass them on to you - the GBM reader. I love all of this stuff, but I figured it would be best to spread the love around. Here is the loot: - 1 HP TC1100 Tablet PC + Docking Station + rubber flap.
- 1 Samsung Q1P Ultra-Mobile PC with extended battery and organizer case
- 1 BatteryGeek.net Portable Powerstation
- 1 HTC Tilt - unlocked
- 1 HTC Advantage - unlocked
- 1 Vista Ultimate
- 1 Tom Bihn Ristretto Bag
- 1 Limited Edition Microsoft Surface Bag
- 10 Bluebeam PDF Shirts
- 3 Lenovo 2 GB USB drives
- 5 HP shirts
- 1 limited edition GottaBeMobile.com shirt
- 1 GottaBeMobile.com coffee mug
- 1 2007 Streets and Trips
- 1 2006 Streets and Trips
- 1 Planon Universal Mobile Charger
- 1 Linksys 8-port workgroup switch
- 1 iPod Shuffle
- 1 Red Zune (4 or 8 GB - I forget which one it is)
- 1 Black Zune (30 GB)
- 1 Lenovo portable mouse
- 1 Lenovo portable power kit
- 1 Labtec PC Mic
- 1 Neat Receipts folio
- 2 TabletKiosk stands
- 2 Shwame cleaning cloths
- 1 Kensington lock cable
- 1 Otterbox waterproof cellphone case
- 1 Lapworks Laptop / Tablet PC stand
- 1 Sony Portable CD DVD/RW Drive
- 1 Windows Vista USB file transfer cable
- 1 DocuPen scanner
- 1 Dazzle USB multi-card reader
- 1 BlueAnt Z9 Bluetooth headset
- 1 Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000
- 1 autographed picture of Warner Crocker
- Some Splotches
- 1 Linksys Portable Wireless Router
- 1 $50 HPShopping.com Gift card
All winners will also get a mix of Motion Computing sticky pads, Microsoft Origami pins, TechSmith pens, and other assorted goodies. Some of the prizes above are used to some extent or another. How can you win? Well, on any given day we'll be giving away one of the above prizes. It might be the Red Zune one day, the TC1100 two days later, or a TabletKiosk stand and a gift card all on the same day - you won't know what is being given away until the deed is done! The key to winning is to 1) be active on the GBM site with some good comments on our posts, or 2) be actively discussing topics / helping users in our forums, or 3) be active by spreading the GBM link love around by posting about GBM on your site, your blog, in a video, in a podcast, in other forums you participate in, Twitter links, etc - point to the work we are doing and let others know. We'll be watching and will pick someone from amongst the people active for that particular day. We'll do this until all of the above prizes are given away. This is open to U.S. and International readers. The gift giving starts today, so get cracking!
- Rob Bushway
Congratulations to forum member tablet_envy on winning the $5200 HP HDX Dragon Entertainment Notebook system. His name was chosen randomly from all those who entered in our contest. tablet_envy, look for an email from us and reply back within 72 hours to claim your prize!! I'll then pack up the system and send it your way. His entry is pasted below: 1) Do you currently use a mobile computer ( Laptop, Tablet PC, UMPC, Ultra-Portable PC, etc)? If so, what brand(s) and what operating system(s) ? Currently using a Fujitsu P1610 tablet PC running Windows XP (Professional). 2) When did you purchase the computer that you currently use the most and when do you plan on replacing it?
Purchased early 2007. Looking to upgrade later this year? 3) Will your next purchase be a mobile computer? If so, what kind and what brand(s) are you considering? So many choices.... Definitely a mobile computer, most likely a convertible tablet. However, the right slate would still be a consideration. Some candidates include the LG P-100, Lenovo X-61.
4) What technology leader would you most like to have lunch with and what would you want to discuss?
Bill Gates. I would like to discuss his charitable causes, and the future directions his Foundation will be pursuing (research? poverty?). 5) What can HP do to improve your mobile life? Provide lightweight, feature-rich tablets, with longer battery life. Hey, I'm not asking too much, am I?
- Rob Bushway
If you've been putting off submitting an entry to our HP HDX Dragon contest, don't delay too much longer. Our contest ends on at 3:00 pm on June 8h, just 3 1/2 days from now. Head over and get your entry in. By the way, if you have some free time and would love to do some insightful reading, take a look through the 700+ entries that have been submitted so far. Answers to what mobile computer people will buy next, who'd they would like to have lunch with, and what HP could do to improve their mobile lives are very, very insightful. This is going to make for some great research data. It isn't often that there is so much of this kind of data made publicly available.
- Rob Bushway
 We've been talking about the HP HDX Dragon for quite a while on GottaBeMobile.com, so we thought it was time to give a little review of this mobile entertainment powerhouse. Now, we know that a notebook computer this size is normally out of our coverage area and it pushes the envelope with the whole "mobile" idea, but we definitely think you'll be very impressed with it. It is superbly designed, fast, and allows you take your mobile entertainment on the road.
In addition to taking a look at the HDX Dragon, I also review the Waterfield Designs sleeve case especially designed to carry this baby around. Trust me, if you own the HDX Dragon, you are definitely going to want this bag. Now, if you have not already submitted an entry to win the HP HDX Dragon, you need to do so immediately after watching this video review. It is quick, easy, and free! Who knows, this baby could be yours and you might be watching National Treasure 2 on Blue Ray this time next week. All GottaBeMobile.com InkShows and Podcasts are sponsored by TechSmith. 
- Rob Bushway
Wanna win a $5200 HP HDX Dragon Entertainment Notebook System? Well, you’ve come to the right place! We are the last of the elite 31 sites to launch their contest, so if you have not won yet, you've got one more chance and it couldn't be easier to enter!!!
What are we giving away?
 Thanks to HP and BuzzCorps, we are giving away The HP HDX Dragon which comes with Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate (64-bit) and is powered by an Intel Core 2 Extreme Processor X9000 (2.80GHz, 6MB L2 Cache, 800MHz FSB). Other features include 20.1" diagonal WUXGA High-Definition HP Ultra Brightview Widescreen (1920x1200) 1080p, 4GB DDR2 System Memory (2 Dimm), 512MB NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTS, HP Imprint Finish (Dragon) + Fingerprint Reader + Webcam + Microphone, Intel PRO/Wireless 4965AGN Network Connection and Bluetooth, 500GB 5400RPM SATA Dual Hard Drive (250GB x 2), Blu-Ray ROM with SuperMulti DVD+/-R/RW Double Layer, Integrated HP HDTV Hybrid TV Tuner and 4 Altec Lansing speakers with HP Triple Bass Reflex subwoofer, and 9 Cell Lithium Ion Battery.
The HP HDX Dragon will come with these software titles: Microsoft Office, Corel PaintShop Pro X2, Corel Painter Essentials, Corel Ulead Video Studio Plus 11.5, Symantec Norton Internet Security.
For the gamers in us the winner will receive the following games: Viva Piñata,Microsoft Flight Sim, Microsoft Flight Sim Expansion Pack, Gears of War.
And since this is an entertainment beast, you will enjoy the following Blu Ray movies out of the box: Pirates of the Caribbean - The Curse of the Black Pearl, Pirates of the Caribbean - Dead Man's Chest, Pirates of the Caribbean - At World's End.
In addition to the above, thanks to Waterfield Designs, we are also giving away a specially designed case so the winner can carry this entertainment beast around!! We are the only site giving away this special accessory, so be sure to watch our video of the sleeve here.
This entire system has a street retail value of over $5200!!!!
How do you enter the contest?
It couldn't be easier to enter this contest. All you have to do is answer these five questions by posting a reply to this forum thread. Forum membership is required and you can easily join here if not already a member.
Here are the five questions you must answer:
1) Do you currently use a mobile computer ( Laptop, Tablet PC, UMPC, Ultra-Portable PC, etc)? If so, what brand(s) and what operating system(s) ?
2) When did you purchase the computer that you currently use the most and when do you plan on replacing it?
3) Will your next purchase be a mobile computer? If so, what kind and what brand(s) are you considering?
4) What technology leader would you most like to have lunch with and what would you want to discuss?
5) What can HP do to improve your mobile life?
While you here visiting GottaBeMobile.com, be sure to look around at our mobile pc news, InkShow video reviews, and discussion forums. We'd absolutely love it if you also subscribed to our RSS feed. We work hard at thoroughly covering the mobile pc space, and hope you'll find our content helpful and useful as you navigate the mobile world.
Here are a few rules and guidelines for the contest:
- Entry is open to registered GottaBeMobile.com forum members. Register for free here.
- One entry per person. Multiple entries will be removed. An entry will be considered valid if all five questions are answered.
- Entries will be accepted from June 1 12:01 am MST through June 8 at 3:00 PM MST.
- This contest is open to residents of ALL countries. Buzz Corps and HP will pay shipping
- Buzz Corps and HP will also be helping with taxes by gifting you with a check to offset the tax impact of winning this $5200 + system.
- The winner will be chosen randomly from all valid entries and be announced on June 8th by 5:00 PM MST. The winner will be notified by email and announced on the homepage of GottaBeMobile. The winner will have 72 hours to respond via email. If no response is received, we will choose another winner randomly.
- Staff members of GBM, HP, BuzzCorps, and the other 30 participating sites are not eligible to enter this contest
By the way, be sure to check out the other currently running contests at these other sites. Time is running out - so don't hesitate to act NOW!
26 May - 02 Jun http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/
27 May - 03 Jun http://www.hardwaregeeks.com/
28 May - 04 Jun www.geeknewscentral.com
29 May - 05 Jun http://www.geekzone.co.nz/
30 May - 06 Jun http://www.thetabletpc.net/
31 May - 07 Jun www.gearlive.com
01 Jun - 08 Jun www.GottaBeMobile.com
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