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HP HDX “Dragon” notebook giveaway winner

June 2nd, 2008 by Long Zheng
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HP DragonYou can stop refreshing the page now. If you’ve been holding your breath for the last couple of hours in anticipation for the drawing of this website’s “31 Days of the Dragon” giveaway, seek medical attention immediately. The rest of you read on.

When I set out to design my contest, I opted for something easy and straightforward because we’re all a little lazy. With over three-thousand and seven hundred (3700) entries, I think I can safely say now it was easy enough.

At the same time I also designed the contest in mind of all the Windows Vista user out there who really wasn’t getting enough lovin’, so I’m also proud to say a thousand and eight hundred eighty-four (1,884) of you - just over half of the entries - took advantage of the bonus offer by turning on the Customer Experience Improvement Program in Vista. Hopefully you’ve kept it on.

Before I announce the winner I also want to mention users who have attempted to abuse the system like the one guy who registered using 6 different AOL emails are automatically disqualified. For your information, AOL emails in sequential numbers stand out.

Without a further ado, the winner is Andrew Stockdale (@gmail.com). For your information, I don’t think this is the same Andrew as the leader singer of Wolfmother. If under the rare circumstance it is, I will redraw.

If you didn’t win, you don’t have to resort to violence. There are still a handful of opportunities to win left on some other sites who’s still accepting entires. Good luck.

26 May - 02 Jun www.bleepingcomputer.com
27 May - 03 Jun www.hardwaregeeks.com
28 May - 04 Jun www.geeknewscentral.com
29 May - 05 Jun www.geekzone.co.nz
30 May - 06 Jun www.thetabletpc.net
31 May - 07 Jun www.gearlive.com
01 Jun - 08 Jun www.GottaBeMobile.com

Comments for "HP HDX “Dragon” notebook giveaway winner"

  1. David

    Jun 2nd, 2008 at 1:49 am

    Grats Andrew.

  2. Jamie Jahnke

    Jun 2nd, 2008 at 1:54 am

    Congratulations, Andrew.

  3. Sushruta

    Jun 2nd, 2008 at 1:58 am

    Damn.Another loosing . :(

  4. Tom (Italy)

    Jun 2nd, 2008 at 2:46 am

    Weeee! I’ve won!!! Ah no, i didn’t :(

  5. marcpodi

    Jun 2nd, 2008 at 3:05 am

    Oh i’m expecting that i will be ……..fore i read the winner’s name… *sigh*

  6. Sushovan

    Jun 2nd, 2008 at 3:09 am

    I really hope that it is Andrew the lead singer so that I get another shot at it :)

  7. Mark

    Jun 2nd, 2008 at 3:17 am

    I just wanted to let you know that I deemed your site worthy of adding to my bookmark toolbar in Firefox. Great site I enjoy your content.

  8. Dentaku

    Jun 2nd, 2008 at 3:20 am

    So what if it IS Andrew the musician? There’s just as much chance that he’s a geek who would love to win this computer as any of us.

  9. Imran

    Jun 2nd, 2008 at 3:54 am

    Yeaaah, now we can sleep :) finally.

  10. Benjamin "balupton" Lupton

    Jun 2nd, 2008 at 4:13 am

    I agree with Dentaku.

  11. Rohan Dhruva

    Jun 2nd, 2008 at 5:00 am

    Aww not another lose :(
    Anyway, best of luck to me and others for the remaining contests :)

  12. Andre Da Costa

    Jun 2nd, 2008 at 8:13 am

    Congratulations Andrew! :)

  13. Corrine

    Jun 2nd, 2008 at 8:23 am

    Congratulations, Andrew and to everyone else who remembered to add Long’s site to your RSS feed. :)

  14. AHB

    Jun 2nd, 2008 at 9:42 am

    Congrats to the winner and thanks Long.

    LOL. Can’t stop my self from asking ;-), that was sarcasm about the singer or you really mean it? :P If yes why?

  15. MJ

    Jun 2nd, 2008 at 10:21 am

    Odd is, there are 3700 entries and I expect myself to win. And I didn’t. It breaks my heart. But congratulations, enjoy your new great, wonderful, best, dream laptop Andrew.

  16. Fire

    Jun 2nd, 2008 at 11:05 am

    Congrats to the winner. And I concur with MJ.

  17. Drew Smith

    Jun 2nd, 2008 at 12:16 pm

    Nice one Andrew! good luck with your new laptop! thanks Long for the competition!

  18. Dhruv

    Jun 2nd, 2008 at 2:14 pm

    Congrats andrew…..

  19. Michael

    Jun 2nd, 2008 at 4:16 pm

    Congratulations Andrew, let us know how you go with your HP HDX Dragon notebook!

  20. PL

    Jun 2nd, 2008 at 5:11 pm

    I want another draw something is wrong since I didnt win ;-)

  21. Andrew Stockdale

    Jun 2nd, 2008 at 5:40 pm

    Thanks alot guys. I was suprised to find I’d won - I never win anything. Or at least, I never did win anything. This pretty much is a dream laptop by anyone standards, complete beast. I’m really happy. Thanks to everyone, Long, HP and BuzzCorps!

    PS - I’m not the lead singer of Wolfmother. My singing voice is awful actually :P

  22. Archmond

    Jun 2nd, 2008 at 6:45 pm

    wow.. conguraturations :)

  23. Joseph Wang

    Jun 2nd, 2008 at 8:05 pm

    Congrats Andrew! :)

  24. Gaurav

    Jun 2nd, 2008 at 9:49 pm

    You know, it will not feel a bit odd to imagine if buzz corps is saving their shipping expenses? :P

    Congrats Andrew! Best Wishes. :)

  25. fiji

    Jun 2nd, 2008 at 9:57 pm

    Congrats, Andrew. :)

  26. Matt S.

    Jun 3rd, 2008 at 12:47 am

    Congratulations Andrew!

  27. fiji

    Jun 3rd, 2008 at 11:35 am

    P.S.: I know this is unrelated but I have 2 Live Mesh invitations for the first two people who resspond. Give me email address in this format ( train at hotmail dot com) and your name.

  28. Chustar

    Jun 3rd, 2008 at 12:05 pm

    @fiji
    Okay, gimme a mesh invite chustar at live dot com
    Chustar

  29. fiji

    Jun 4th, 2008 at 10:27 am

    Chustar is getting a Live Mesh invite. One more invite left. Soonest to respond gets it.

  30. fiji

    Jun 4th, 2008 at 10:39 am

    You are invited Chustar. Pen Name: Abdullah.

  31. Chustar

    Jun 4th, 2008 at 10:56 am

    @fiji:
    it showed up.
    thanks.

  32. Nicholas

    Jun 5th, 2008 at 1:55 am

    I want an invite to Live Mesh - nicholas541 at hotmail dot com - Nicholas

  33. fiji

    Jun 5th, 2008 at 11:22 am

    I invited you Nicholas.

  34. Austin

    Jun 24th, 2008 at 12:21 pm

    I entered at http://www.bleepingcomputer.com and sadly I did not win. This is a nice computer but its very expensive.

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