Well, we have a winner of the HP HDX Dragon Entertainment Notebook in the 31 Days of the HP Dragon Giveaway. It is Finalist #9 - Duane Laflotte who garnished the most votes in a very tight race between all 9 finalists.
Duane will be receiving the fully loaded HP HDX Dragon sent to him along with some pretty cool Software: Microsoft Office Professional 2007, Corel PaintShop Pro X2, Corel Painter Essentials, Corel Ulead Video Studio Plus 11.5, Symantec Norton Internet Security 2008; some cool Games for Windows: Viva Piñata, Microsoft Flight Sim, Microsoft Flight Sim Expansion Pack, and Gears of War; and BluRay movies -Pirates of the Caribbean - The Curse of the Black Pearl, Pirates of the Caribbean - Dead Man's Chest and Pirates of the Caribbean - At World's End.
From the hundreds that voted, these are the winners that were picked by Randomizer.org:
Pam Trader wins the Oakley Vertical Computer bag
Timothy Hays wins a copy of Gears of War for the Xbox 360.
Thomas Berney wins the Maxtor One Touch 4 Mini 2.5" 160GB portable hard drive
Mark “Sumocat” Sumimoto has won an Honorary mention award, that kept us laughing through the night as we looked over all the entries to the contest. Here is his entry, which would have made it to the finalists if had a picture of his gear:
My current gadget bag is the Monster 3000 backpack for extreme hiking. It’s loaded with an Alienware ALX Crossfire desktop (fully loaded with 3.0 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Extreme processor, two 500GB 7200rpm SATA hard drives, 4 GB of ram, ATI Radeon graphics card, and HD-DVD drive), 42” Phillips LCD HDTV (1080p of course) with 5.1 surround sound speakers, Microsoft 8000 Bluetooth entertainment keyboard and mouse, and a stack of ten Electrovaya 130 Powerpads for mobile computing, plus all the requisite cords and cables. It’s been working out great, but I really need to upgrade now that Blu-Ray won the high-def war, hence I am interested in the Blu-Ray equipped Dragon. I believe it will provide a similar portable computing experience, and hopefully I will adjust to carrying the lighter load.
Actually, my previous gadget bag was quite light. It’s an Incase sling pack (first generation). Designed for Macbooks, but it fit my Toshiba R25 Tablet PC in the dedicated padded pocket quite nicely. Along with my tablet, I packed a spare stylus (Wacom eraser pen), Targus podium coolpad, my old battery as a spare, and of course, the AC adapter. In the interior zipper pocket, I kept a D-Link USB Bluetooth adapter, spare 1GB SD card, SDHC USB adapter (a 4GB Sandisk SDHC Extreme II card sits in my tablet’s memory card slot), USB adapter for a presentation remote control that fits and sits in the PC card slot, and my Cellink Bluetooth stereo headset and 3.5 audio adapter. It also holds a crappy little mobile phone in the zipper pocket at the bottom of the strap. I used to carry my Casio EX-S500 digital camera in my bag until it broke (Hence, I am unfortunately without a quality camera at the moment and unable to provide a photo of my “previous” gadget bag). Hope one or both bags make it into the running!
Mark for his hard work and his grand effort in making us laugh will be getting a Pantone Huey to help calibrate his displays. :)
All Winners will need to send an email to dragoncontest@bostonpocketpc.com with your current shipping address and phone number for you to receive your prizes! Duane since you live in the United States a 1099 form will also be sent to you and all taxes will be reimbursed by Buzz Corps and HP, who we would like to thank again for helping us put on this contest.
To all our winners, Congratulations!