Holiday Giveaway: Win 1.5 TB of backing-up goodness!
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THANK YOU, THE CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED
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[UPDATE: OK, we’re going to open this up to all our readers world-wide. Thanks to all our international readers for being so annoying. – The Doc]
This time of year, one’s thoughts naturally turn towards giving thanks for all the blessings in one’s lives, and there can be no doubt that Macenstein is truly the biggest blessing of all. To that end, we, in conjunction with the good folks over at Seagate, have come up with a way that you can not only win some kick ass drives for all your Time Machine backup needs, but kiss our ass at the same time!
Seagate was nice enough to give us both a FreeAgent Desk for Mac 1TB drive and a 500GB FreeAgent Go for Mac portable drive to give away to one lucky reader (that’s right, you get BOTH). All you have to do is leave a comment below telling us why you are thankful for Macenstein. We will pick a winner at random from all comments. One entry per person please. Open to all readers world-wide. Contest ends on 12/6 at 11:59 PT. Good luck!
Oh, and fear not, if you’d like an extra chance (or 9) to win, you can also enter to win one of the nine hard drive bundles at these Web sites once they post their rules:
1. Notebooks.com
2. CrunchGear
3.Bleeping Computer
4. GottaBeMobile.com
5. GeeksToGo.com
6. PlanetAMD64.com
7. Gadgetell.com
8. Paulstamatiou.com
9. Digital Home Thoughts
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THANK YOU, THE CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED
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There is always room for info to make my beloved Macbook even more awesome.
i’m thankful for macenstein b/c i love getting tech news!
Macs are sexy.
Mac chicks are sexier.
Thank you macenstein!
Its a good site—no great site!
It doesn’t take itself too seriously
The Mac Chicks….. oh yeah and the articles.
I’m thankful that I have Macenstein as such a great source for my mac news. You present all the stories in a humorous fashion, that separates you from the stingy news sites that exist all over the web. I follow the site through RSS in Safari, and am always happy to see a new story posted. Keep up the good work! And please let me win!
I’m thankful to Macenstein for all the celebrity mac user sightings =)
I’m thankful you are offering a chance to win these drives,
I am very thankful to Macenstein because you keep me updated with the latest news from the tech world. If I know anything about computers and technology and others consider me as a techie, it’s just because of this great site.
I am very thankful to Macenstein for keeping me updated with the latest tech news from Mac world. If i know something about computers and technology and if others consider me as a techie, its just because of this wonderful site
I lost my resume (just finished updating it, and hadn’t sent it out yet) along with a bunch of photos of my best friends wedding after a power outage fried my power supply, which then took out my hard drive. It was a little disappointing. Now, I keep all of my pictures and important documents on my hard drive as well as thumb drives. This would go a long ways toward solving the problem of trying to figure out what files are on what thumb drive. I could put it all in one place.
A site dedicated to Mac news, Mac hardware, Mac Gossip, and Mac Girls? I’m in Mac Nirvana. 🙂
Because it’s great and the chicks.
You saved my spring 2008 with your Mac Chick. I hope, you´ll go on. Cheers,Vamy
If I lose data AGAIN…My wife will not let me use her storage device for some time to come. Please Macenstein, continue to enlighten me with knowledge and allow me to be the purveyor of saving the ever important photos and tunes.
Oh, the Chick of the Day is always a nice plus too. Who could argue with that I ask you?
very thankfull to macenstein…. Thanks for this nice Giveaway offer…
I came to this site first time.. and i found lots of usefull information… Thx 4 this..
very thankfull to macenstein… thanks for this nice giveaway offfer …
today I came to this site first time… and i got lots of usefull information.. Thx for this.
I would like to thank Macenstein for being there to guide and help whomever is needed; and thanks for the giveaway contest.
I’m thankful Macenstein has such cool prizes!
I’m glad macenstein’s around to keep being the gadfly of the tech world. 🙂
I am a recent discoverer of macenstein, but am really enjoying the content and tips. Throw in a free 1TB drive and you have a reader for life!
Macenstein just collects the best stuff from the net, i am loving it!
I’m thankful because I get a shot to win this wonderful HD 🙂
What is not to be thankful for. Mac, News, You guys do it right. My top daily RSS feed!!!
I’m thankful because you are not an Apple cult member.
I mostly use PC’s at work and enjoy both ends of the spectrum.
I thankful for your attitude.
I am thankful for macenstein giving me the chance to win a couple external hard drives.
Well, because you opened up a new and brighter perspective over my PC 😉
I’m thankful for The Dr. Macenstein, because i dig ya Mac Chicks Of The Month and some Celeb Mac Chicks :P.
Hi Dr Macenstein, i’m thankful for ya site because of the Celeb Mac Chick and your Giveaways 😉
I am thankful that you have a competition open to international readers that will finally give me a chance to do some Time Machine back-ups coz I’m too poor to buy an external HDD and 1.5TB of storage is heaven to me. I’m also thankful that you aren’t like macrumors and have actual decent stories etc instead of rumours, the lastest news and the likes.
It gets me through my day at work haha…
Being a technician can be rather boring at times and we rely on sites like this to pass the time.
🙂
My current backup plan is this:
Firstly, a prayer to merciful Minerva that nothing will ever go wrong with my laptop and that it will never get stolen or damaged, despite the amount of travelling I do.
Secondly, if anything should ever go wrong, God forbid, I would check that all my music and photos are still on A-drive, where I deposited them for free several months ago and then completely forgot about. I would, of course, lose anything added to my laptop since I uploaded them, but there you go.
Thirdly, I would root out the DVDs to which I copied the same music and photos, just in case. I’m pretty sure I backed them up properly…Once again, anything added in the past half year would be lost.
So, I think I have most of the things that I would hate to lose backed up, even if it is in a rather half-arsed fashion. Whether I still have the registration numbers for various software I’m running, I couldn’t say for sure. Either way, it would be annoying to have to search out and download the relevant software that it has taken me a while to put together from various free offers. (I wonder where those registration numbers are?)
If I had a genuinely safe backup I would, for the first time in my life, do a Dell System Restore. I think I have accumulated so much trash over the years, both in the registry and everywhere else, that the thought of having my laptop back to its pristine condition is really very attractive. This time I would know how to look after it from the get-go, not like when I first got it. Until now I have never dared try a system restore, just in case something goes horribly wrong, A-Drive goes bust on the same day and my backup DVDs turn out to contain only error messages.
More than anything, having an external drive big enough to take not only a copy of the contents of my own laptop, but also perhaps a copy of my mum’s and girlfriend’s computers as well, would make me feel less nervous about my amateurish attempts to make either of them load in less than 20 minutes on startup.
I am thankful for all things Macenstein and Macenstein-related.
Especially for MacChick Alexandra (Oct 08) who should be the MacChick of the month for the year.
Opaaah!
(sorry if I misspelled that)
I’m thankful for a great place to get much needed Mac info!
Thanks Macenstein for this wonderful gift!
Because you have cool info on apple and of course the mac Chicks.
You are one of them that convinced me to make the switch long ago. Now i’m reading you every day, per every post.
Thank you a lot 🙂
From far away – Greece
I dig Macenstein for the variety of features, a little spice with the tech is good for the soul.
This site is pretty cool. Just stumbled across it today. It’s like an early Christmas present. 🙂
I’m thankful for Macenstein giving away drives with 9 other sites.
Thankful for their reviews
I’m thankful I’ve read the Macenstein reviews before buying a couple of products I shouldn’t have!
I love the humor of Macenstein.
I am thankful that Macenstein has giveaways and useful information.
txhottie_86 at yahoo dot com
I always look forward to MAcenstein posts in my feeds. They’re light and fun and cover some aspects other sites miss. Also, you cover the funn iPhone apps, which is great because not owning one means I live vicariously through you and your odd finds.
Thank god for MACs! The mac chick is cute.. I’m just greatful for a community that appreciates good products. 🙂
Macenstein is always good for a laugh to lighten the day – and hey – there’s even informative articles too 🙂
All you have to do is leave a comment below telling us why you are thankful for Macenstein
I consider this site to be known for the Mac Chicks and so I stop by every so often to check out my girls. Well, my name really is Mac, after all! 😉
Though I’m a pc user, I do keep up on the new Mac tech as well because I not only expect to be a future Macbook owner, but even sooner an iPhone owner. They make some good stuff and this site has the goods.