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Staples wants to make one lucky Gadgeteer reader a winner of an Acer Ultra Mini PC Netbook (a $349.98 value!). Keep reading for more info and how to enter this contest…



For your chance to win the Acer Ultra Mini PC Netbook, you need to do the following:

Between now and 12/22/08, leave a comment to this post listing five of your favorite websites (other than The Gadgeteer) that you visit every day. *

Only one entry per person.

We will randomly pick one lucky winner on 12/22/08.  You must be a U.S. resident and be 18 years or older to participate.




About the prize:

The Acer Ultra Mini PC weighs in at 2.2 pounds with an 8.9” screen.
It has 1GB of memory, 120GB hard drive and 802.11 b/g wireless.
Great for browsing the internet, viewing pictures, watching video’s on-line and instant messaging.
You can check it out all the specs on this netbook at Staples.com and Staples retail locations.

acer-contest-2wants to make this Holiday shopping season EASY by giving 10,000 customers a chance to win their holiday gifts for free through their Gift It For Free sweepstakes. From November 16, 2008 to December 24, 2008, 10,000 lucky Staples customers will win their entire purchase (up to $5,000) for FREE!  Great news, right?  Well, not everyone thinks so, but we do!

Also be sure to check out the Coach Tom YouTube Channel that Staples has created to promote this sweepstakes. The videos are pretty funny.




Good luck everyone!

* If this is your first time posting to The Gadgeteer since we switched to WordPress, do not freak out if your post doesn’t show up right away. Each user has to have one approved comment before subsequent comments will automatically be approved. Depending on the time of day, it might take me a few hours to approve a post.



652 thoughts on “Contest: Win an Acer Ultra Mini PC from The Gadgeteer”




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  2. forums.cgsociety.org

    flickr.com/groups/alphasmart

    uncommondescent.com

    gmail.com (heh.. does that count?)

    frontlineplacement.com/education

  3. televisionwithoutpity.com
    brighthand.com
    macrumors.com
    wmexperts.com
    businessweek.com

  4. yay for feed readers constantly running in the background. 🙂
    My fav. 3 must-read sites:
    gottabemobile.com
    techbargains.com
    techmeme.com
    neowin.net
    news.google.com

  5. i gotta say im a creature of habit,
    hotmail
    myspace
    google reader for my enormous amount of blogs
    gmail
    facebook
    google
    webct

  6. Joel Spangler

    google (my customized igoogle has tonz of stuff on it)
    engadget
    woot
    hardocp
    fatwallet

  7. motorcycle.com
    mobileburn.com
    thekneeslider.com
    engadget.com
    motorcycle-usa.com

  8. mobileread.com
    rememberthemilk.com
    gizmodo.com
    google.com/reader
    mymoneyblog.com

  9. digg.com
    detroit.craigslist.org
    failblog.org
    macrumors.com
    smashingmagazine.com

  10. Here’s my list of five (out of the many I visit everyday):
    engadget.com
    endgadgetmobile.com
    gizmodo.com
    jkontherun.com
    tuaw.com

  11. 1. google.com
    2. gizmodo.com
    3. digg.com
    4. engadget.com
    5. docs.google.com

  12. Five sites I visit daily (other than this one):
    gmail.com
    rememberthemilk.com
    espn.com
    engadget.com
    msnbc.com

    Love THIS site, keep up the good work!

  13. Here is mine:
    cbssportsline.com
    comicbookmovie.com
    the-gadgeteer.com
    indystar.com
    gizmodo.com

    Thanks for the chance to win!

  14. WoW…this is phenomenal!!!! Here are mine:
    1. coursenet.tuiu.edu
    2. planet1023.com (yeah…love listening to the radio online)
    3. game.giveawayoftheday.com (love the games most times)
    4. google.com (for my email)
    5. momdot.com

    -barbarabaker 🙂
    Merry Christmas everyone!

  15. (1) gizmodo
    (2) engadget
    (3) mobilemag.com
    (4) amazon.com
    (5) eBay.com

    Stay off the ice everyone! (if you live in such place!) 🙂

  16. 1. gizmodo.com
    2. arstechnica.com
    3. slashdot.com
    4. xkcd.com
    5. dpreview.com

  17. Randall Willis

    geardiary.com
    gizmodo.com
    baen.com
    userfriendly.com
    jerrypournelle.com

  18. 1. nytimes.com
    2. slashdot.org
    3. chowhound.com
    4. treocentral.com
    5. macrumors.com

  19. My favorites are:
    Fark
    IVillage
    The Weather Channel
    Coolest Gadgets
    Dumb Little Man
    (Not necessarily in that order, but I do go there at least once a day)

  20. My 5 favorite websites:
    Gmail (don’t leave home without it!)
    Google
    Engadget
    Justanswer
    Gizmodo

  21. Cranky Media Guy

    Fark.com
    boingboing.net
    gawker.com
    defamer.com
    thinkgeek.com

    Plus:
    flickr.com
    craigslist.com
    and too many others to list

  22. here are the 5 sites I visit every day:
    google.com
    comcast.net
    ebay.com
    yahoo.com
    verizonwireless.com

  23. Going in order of my morning ritual 🙂
    1. cnn.com
    2. slickdeals.net
    3. engadget.com
    4. macrumors.com
    5. the-gadgeteer.com

  24. Ok, my favorites are

    cnn.com
    pandora.com
    woot.com
    tvguide.com
    google.com/ig

  25. reader.google.com
    wunderground.com
    macosxhints.com
    zotero.com
    democracynow.org

  26. PATRIC KRUEGER

    stop, drop, and blog
    google
    freedictionary.com
    hooversonline
    slate.com

    and others

  27. Guess I’ll just look at my google chrome homepage….

    mail.google.com
    facebook.com
    hulu.com
    calendar.google.com
    techrepublic.com

  28. 1. Hotmail.com
    2. thesmokinggun.com
    3. google.com
    4. cnn.com
    5. youtube.com

  29. My five favorite sites are:

    Yahoo.com
    Google.com
    Amazon.com
    Etsy.com
    Netflix.com

    Thanks for the giveaway!

  30. Myspace, ozfoxes.com,cheatcodecentral.com,runescape.com and second life are my fav places.

  31. Here are mine:
    cnet.com
    kk.org/cooltools
    bookofjoe.com
    geardiary.com
    drudgereport.com

  32. My 5 favorites are:
    infowars.com
    Prisonplanettv.com
    CBS.com
    pokerstars.com
    ripoff.com

  33. I usually check out Ebay – my local library to reserve books – ols – pogo and my space.

  34. 1. Macrumors.com
    2. Digg.com (how I found the-Gadgeteer)
    3. Reddit.com
    4. casualcollective.com
    5. umpcportal.com

  35. ebay.com
    cleveland.craigslist.org
    google news
    aol.com
    huntington.com (got my mind on my money and my money on my mind)

  36. slacker.com
    digitalradiocentral.com
    slingcommunity.com
    foodnetwork.com
    netflix.com

    and the normal assortment of tech sites……

    David

  37. 1.) livejournal.com
    2.) tribe.net
    3.) myspace.com
    4.) current.com
    5.) facebook.com

  38. Mommysavers.com
    MSN.com
    Online-sweepstakes.com
    tripadvisor.com
    cruisecritic.com

  39. yahoo.com
    televisionwithoutpity.com
    online-sweepstakes.com
    youtube.com
    iwon.com

  40. I have an odd collection of websites I visit every day:

    1. CrunchGear
    2. Liliputing
    3. The Angry Black Woman
    4. Tor.com
    5. Woot

  41. I visit more than 5 every day, I have a lot of them on my iGoogle page, but here are 5 of my favorites (other than The Gadgeteer!)
    • lifehacker.com
    • inhabitat.com
    • mocoloco.com
    • drudgereport.com
    • engadget.com

  42. Penny Vankirk

    Here’s my faves:
    google reader
    woot.com
    geektonic.com
    thedigitallifestyle.com
    gottabemobile.com

  43. slickeals.com
    bigbigforums.com
    websleuths.com
    volition.com
    insessiontrials.com

    Thank you

  44. Five websites I visit daily:
    Amazon.com
    Candlefind.com
    Greenwood Commonwealth Online
    Fidelity Investments
    Cooking.com

  45. engadget.com
    digg.com
    krugman.blogs.nytimes.com
    early-retirement.org
    daringfireball.net

  46. Sorry about that, I mistyped my email by mistake in the comment portion… orchestratenoise0726[at]yahoo[dot]com

  47. amazon.com
    giantmicrobes.com
    online-sweepstakes.com
    foxnews.com
    tammybruce.com

  48. Brittania Thompson

    These are the five websites I visit daily:

    OLS Contest Website
    EBAY
    TMZ.com
    Facebook.com
    Myspace.com

  49. Christine Messer

    Thanks for the contest!
    pogo.com
    google.com
    online-sweepstakes.com
    cheapstingybargains.com
    joecartoon.com

  50. Rosa Bartolucci

    OnLineSweepstakes.com
    Amazon.com
    Google.com
    Yahoo.com
    foodnetwork.com

  51. Randal Symmes

    theonion.com
    pitchforkmedia.com
    nytimes.com
    andrewsullivan.com
    rottentomatoes.com

  52. The five pages I visit every day are

    English.aljazeera.net

    news.bbc.co.uk

    huffingtonpost.com

    mail.google.com

    woot.com & sellout.woot.com

    The first three are because I’m such a news junkie. I of course have to check my email daily and finally who doesn’t love woot?

  53. The 5 sites that I visit each daye are:
    1. Engadget
    2. Woot
    3. Facebook
    4. Liliputing
    5. Hulu

  54. freecycle for santa monica and west hollywood
    craigs list
    ebay
    yahoo
    google images and my credit union

  55. I would love to win this contest, as a single mom of two a new computer isn’t in the budget. I visit craftster, angry chicken, the superficial.com,burda.com, and craft.com Thanks!

  56. appleinsider.com
    hotmail.com
    imcpl.org
    matrixfans2007.informe.com
    hiramsforum.com

  57. dealnews.com
    bargainshare.com
    hotcouponworld.com
    slickdeals.net
    fatwallet.com

  58. 1. Ebay.com
    2. Amazon.com
    3. Best Buy.com
    4. Newegg.com
    5. Officedepot.com

  59. mobilitysite.com
    geocaching.com
    fatwallet.com
    foxnews.com
    aircraftresourcecenter.com

    Thanks!

  60. Five of my top favorites:

    yahoo.com (email, news, weather, TV listings)
    google.com (always need to find something)
    icanhazcheezburger.com (lolcats)
    ebay.com (buying and selling)
    cardschat.com (poker talk)

  61. My top 5 invaluable websites:
    Google.com
    Newyorktimes.com
    Zune.net
    Twitter.com
    library.osu.edu (for downloading research articles)

  62. On a daily basis, I read espn.com, just anothermobile monday, yahoo news, cnn mobile and onion news

  63. Amanda Linker

    engadget.com., flickr.com, twitter.com, pacificgeek.com and itunes.com This is my list, hope it wins cause my laptop is about shot. Thanks for the contest.

  64. DigitalLifestyle.com
    BostonPocketPC.com
    Geek.com
    Slashdot
    Digital Inspiration (labnol.org)

  65. GearDiary.com
    Craigslist.com
    JustAnotherMobileMonday.com
    MyTodayScreen.com
    iLounge.com

  66. onlinesweepstakes.com
    pogo.com
    myspace.com
    hotmail.com
    wgem.com (local news site)

  67. Catherine Gildea

    1. Foxnews.com
    2. Yahoo.com
    3. MSN.com
    4. Myspace.com
    5. Capitalone.com

  68. the gadgeteer.com
    yahoo.com
    perezhilton.com
    sephora.com
    bestbuy.com

    thanks for the chance!

  69. overstock.com
    divavillage.com
    elle.com
    creativecrafts.com
    gamegiveawayoftheday.com

  70. robyn scollo

    five fav websites i visit. are
    gap.com, oldnavy.com, bigsweeps.com, whitehouseblackmarket.com, and publishersclearinghouse.com.

  71. macrumors.com
    rockwoodcomic.com (M,W,F)
    archerytalk.com
    blackberryforums.com
    howardforums.com

  72. cnet
    engadget
    cnet
    woot
    youtube

    🙂 Thank you for the wonderful giveaway! 🙂

  73. Five sites I visit every day:
    google
    amazon
    acpl.lib.in.us
    adjack.tv
    freelotto.com

  74. letsrun.com
    giveawayoftheday.com
    boston.com
    yahoo.com
    relavantmagazine.com

  75. My list –

    Fatwallet.com
    Topix.com
    aol.com/finance
    mooseintl.org
    pogo.com

    Thanks for hosting a great giveaway!

  76. RKgamers.com
    hotmail.com
    puzzles.com
    city-data.com/forum/san-antonio
    weather.com

  77. I don’t have a favorite website I enjoy all them. Where else can we have the freedom to chose what we want to see if on the computer or accross this county as we seem pleased.
    When I was a kid, I wonder what it will be like when we got older. Now I know.

  78. John Moore, III

    Yahoo.com
    sweepstakestoday.com
    circuitcity.com
    usatoday.com
    amazon.com
    bigsweeps.com

  79. sandiegofishing.com
    bigsweeps.com
    sweepwire.com
    sweepsadvantage.com
    madberries.com

  80. 1. JustJared.com

    2. People.com

    3. Yahoo.com

    4. Concreteloop.com

    5. Geeksugar.com

  81. Websites I visit everyday

    ebay
    vendio
    adn.com (anchorage daily news)
    online-sweepstakes.com
    yahoo

  82. Katherine Keller

    online-sweepstakes.com
    madberries.com
    womansday.com
    womansworld.com
    sheknows.com

  83. my 5 fave websites are:
    salon.com
    televisionwithoutpity.com
    geeksugar.com
    amazon.com
    rottentomatoes.com

  84. Sharon Whitaker

    amazon.com
    bankofamerica.com
    facebook.com
    myspace.com
    sheknows.com

  85. I would say my favorite top 5 are:

    mycoupons.com
    funtasia.com
    amazon.com
    swagbucks.com
    mypoints.com

    Thank you for the great giveaway!!

  86. Here is my list:
    nbc.com/daytime
    amazon.com
    google.com
    justfreestuff.com
    ebates.com

  87. 1. Yahoo Mail
    2. Google
    3. Facebook
    4. Comcast (check tv schedule)
    5. Yahoo Finance/My Yahoo

  88. online-sweepstakes.com
    downsgang.blogspot.com
    newsok.com
    espn.com
    yahoo.com

  89. Google.com
    yahoo.com
    tivocommunityforum.com
    msnbc.com
    cnn.com
    Thanks for a great contest!

  90. Joanna Smith

    My 5 favorite websites that I visit every day are:

    http://www.cnet.com
    http://www.facebook.com
    http://www.cnn.com
    http://www.twitter.com
    http://www.foxnews.com

    You have no idea how much I have wanted this Acer Ultra Mini PC Netbook I have read reviews about it, have checked out all the specs and features, and it is not only something I need because my laptop died a couple of months ago, but it is also one of my top 3 choices of netbooks. Thank you so much for the opportunity to enter.

  91. amazon.com
    msn.com
    cnn.com
    pogo.com (so I can say hi! to my Mom)
    dell.com (waiting for the perfect sale!)

    pauline15_01 at hotmail dot com

  92. Acer is a great computer company!! They need more love.

    Here is my top 5
    ebay.com
    madberries.com
    amazon.com
    google.com
    superpages.com

  93. Patty Farnsley

    craigslist.com
    facebook.com
    onlinesweepstakes.comworkplacelikehome.com
    workathomemafia.com
    huffingtonpost.com

  94. Charlotte Robbins

    aolmail.com
    online-sweepstakes.com
    swagbucks.com
    yahoogroups.com
    launch.com

  95. some of my favorite sites are:
    clusty.com
    meebo.com
    gmail.com
    frys.com
    en.wikipedia.org

    cool contest — please let me win, ’cause my laptop died!

  96. Leann H Swinnney

    drudgereport.com
    online-sweepstakes.com
    msn.com
    kxcd.com
    lolcats.com

  97. Top 5 daily website visits:

    1. amazon.com
    2. online-sweepstakes.com
    3. sweepstakesadvantage.com
    4. ebay.com
    5. king.com

  98. Margaret Tokonitz

    amazon.com
    ebay.com
    myspace.com
    facebook.com
    online-sweepstakes.com

  99. pamela hansen

    nfl.com
    ebay.com
    amazon.com
    redbook.com
    hgtv.com

    these are my five faves but i have lots and lots more

  100. Google Reader
    Facebook
    Amazon
    MSN news
    Buzagent
    SheKnows.com
    and most importantly, gmail, if that counts as a site. I’m on my email at least a dozen times a day.
    Thanks for the awesome giveaway and wishing you and yours a great Holiday.

  101. online-sweepstakes.com
    jsonline.com
    hotmail.com
    everydaycheapskate.com
    msn.com

  102. pensacolanewsjournal.com
    online-sweepstakes.com
    facebook.com
    blingo.com
    iwon.com

  103. five lovely wetsites.
    drphil.com
    oprah.com
    bluemountainarts.com
    hgtv.org
    the most important is online-sweepstakes.com

  104. I’m kinda lame!

    hotmail.com
    google.com
    myspace.com
    facebook.com
    swagbucks.com

  105. Tracey Byram

    endgadget.com
    gizmodo.com
    bookroomreviews.com
    PCHsearch engine
    amazon.com

  106. amazon.com
    seriouseats.com
    washingtonpost.com
    slickdeals.com
    facebook.com

  107. A winner has been chosen. It’s entry number 153 by Dree. I’ve sent Dree an email asking for shipping details. If I do not get a response within 48hrs. I’ll pick another entry.

    I’m closing this post for comments at this time.

    Thanks to everyone for entering! 🙂

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