This is a heads up for our next big competition, running from August through September. This time HP, Microsoft, Timbuk2 and Synclables partnered to create a package prize perfect for students going back to school.

The Back to School: Better Together giveaway is brought to you by twenty five websites - each of these will have a prize bundle to giveaway.

What's in each prize package you ask? An amazing HP dv6 laptop with Microsoft Windows Vista, a very portable HP Mini 110 with Windows XP, one Timbuk2 backpack and Syncables software to make sure your laptops are always in sync.

We put together a website with lots of more details. Just visit Back To School: Better Together giveaways for a lot more information on this back to school giveaways. make sure to bookmark that site so you know exactly when to enter each competition.

Just in case you are curious, here is the roster with all participant sites and dates when you can enter their competitions:

Student Bloggers 12-16 Aug
Geekzone 13-17 Aug
Kill Jill 14-18 Aug
Study Successful 15-19 Aug
Gear Live 16-20 Aug
CampusGrotto 17-21 Aug
Poorer Than You 18-22 Aug
Notebooks 19-23 Aug
ThePrereq. 20-24 Aug
Hack College 21-25 Aug
College Times 22-26 Aug
OSNN.net 23-27 Aug
Green Panda Treehouse 24-28 Aug
Building Camelot 25-29 Aug
Mocha Dad 26-30 Aug
College Candy 27-31 Aug
Studenomics 28 Aug - 1 Sep
The 2.0 Life 29 Aug - 2 Sep
Geeks room 30 Aug - 3 Sep
Debt Free Scholar 31 Aug - 4 Sep
One Day One Job 1-5 Sep
Daddy Forever 2-6 Sep
Clinton Fitch 3-7 Sep
Zen College Life 4-8 Sep
Gear Diary 5-9 Sep

Good luck!

Awesome.

OoooooooooooooooooooooH!!

An update on this folks. The competition starts on Geekzone this 13th August 4pm.

You will be able to enter the competition here.

Please keep using this thread to discuss the competition.

Very keen to use these at uni.

Those could be very useful, and I'm a huge HP fan! entered....

Ooh its started just now!

Entered hope i can win these to use at school and uni

Entered Competition 
Hoping to Win              


I am definitely after a new laptop - to replace my oldish one at home.. and really want to try out the new Windows 7 to see what all the fuss is about. Good luck to everyone who enters.. :-)

Well done Geekzone, for getting in on this! (Cheers, hp!)

I'm in. Hopefully this time I will win. (I'm glad it's not a "write an essay" type of entry.)

Entered. Good luck to everybody.
Hopefully I will be able to replace my oldish HP ;)

Wow! This looks sweet.

All my Uni work would be way easier and happier with those two around =)
Plus I wouldn't have to wreck my back carrying all those books around every day!

Good luck to everyone.

Ben

cool

Done, a nice kit to win..

Wouldn't mind a laptop right now. Save me 15 minutes walking to the uni library..