Tech Olive’s Weekly Giveaway Bonanza
By Tech Olive Staff on Mar 13th, 2010 at 12:04AM
Hello, Earthlings! After we realized that we have a ton of cool stuff just sitting around and collecting dust, we decided to get rid of it the easy way by giving it away to our loyal readers. This cool stuff ranges from stickers to gaming headsets to case fans to gaming mouse pads and more. Some items are brand new in the box, while others have been opened up for review purposes.
Here’s the deal, we’ll be giving away one item through Twitter every Monday at 6:00PM EST until we run out of stuff to giveaway. We’ll ask a trivia question and the first person to reply to us with the correct answer will be the winner for that week. Sound simple? It is, so be sure to follow us on Twitter for your chance to get some cool, free stuff!
A few rules:
- You can only win one time (to keep it fair).
- You must be a resident of the United States (sorry, foreigners).
- Winners will be notified via DM in Twitter. They must respond before the next week’s giveaway or else they will forfeit their win.







For the first two months of 2010, Gigabyte is said to have sold between 3.1 million and 3.3 million motherboards, which is up to par with the 3.2 million to 3.3 million of Asus’ sales. However, Asus won’t go down without a battle. It’s said that they are looking to slash prices of their motherboards to increase sales. The company thinks they’ll be able to ship 5 million motherboards for the first quarter.
Personally, I thought I’d never see this coming, but seeing the swarm of modders fitting their netbooks with HD decoders has persuaded Asus to go ahead and put their own HD decoder in their upcoming 1005PR Eee PC. Other notable features include the new Atom N450, a 10.1″ 1366×768 display, 11 hours of battery life, 250GB HDD, up to 2GB of DDR2 RAM, Bluetooth, WiFi, USB 2.0, Ethernet, 0.3MP webcam, multitouch trackpad, and the Broadcom BCM 70015 HD decoder, which will be able to play full 1080p HD video without a hiccup, something older netbooks can’t brag about. Sadly, no official word from Asus yet on pricing and availability.



