Today we launched the AMD Center, a portal on AnandTech that aggregates all of our AMD content in one place. Thanks to AMD's sponsorship you'll get a cleaner interface on all AMD articles, as well as reduced advertising on those pages. The portal will also serve as a way for AMD to reach out to you all directly as we're pulling in AMD tweets and have a feed of AMD's own blogs on the right hand side. AMD also wants to hear from you, and we've got some opporuntities to help with that going forward. Finally, the AMD Center serves as a destination for a bunch of pretty awesome AMD giveaways we've got planned. With AMD's support we've got better prizes and more of them to give away. We're kicking off the giveaways with three ultra thin 11.6-inch notebooks: Acer's V5.

The V5 features a touch enabled 11.6-inch 1366 x 768 IPS display, 4GB of DDR3L memory (2GB on board, 2GB in a single SO-DIMM slot, expandable to 6GB total) and normally ships with a standard SATA hard drive. I asked AMD if they would be willing to swap out the hard drives for SSDs and they agreed - so if you win, your V5 will ship with a 128GB Samsung SSD 840 drive (you can thank me later ;)). 

The 2.65 pound Acer V5 features AMD's quad-core A6-1450 APU. That's four Jaguar cores running at 1GHz (1.4GHz max turbo) with a Radeon HD 8250 GPU. It's a nice little system with a very power efficient APU.

Here's the deal. To enter, simply post a comment below (US residents only, please only make a single post, contest requirements below) explaining your current PC setup and why you want, or need to win a V5. What I'm looking for here is an understanding of what you currently own in terms of computing devices (PCs, notebooks, tablets, etc...), how you use them and how winning a V5 would change/improve your current setup. Make your entries good as they may come in handy for some other stuff we've got planned in the future.

If you win, AMD wants your feedback on the machine after you get it. You'll be asked to provide a short review (a paragraph or two) talking about your experience with the system. Do a good job and your feedback may even be featured on AnandTech.

Good luck!

Entries will be accepted from 6:30 PM ET on 9/5/2013 through 6:30 PM ET on 9/9/2013. We will draw 3 winner(s) who will be selected by 9/10/2013.

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  • policeman0077 - Thursday, September 12, 2013 - link

    lalala~~
  • araczynski - Thursday, September 12, 2013 - link

    Own a gaming rig I just built (in the basement man cave), and have an iPad4/SurfacePro/Samsung 3 phone (all 3 from work). I use the iPad4 mostly for gaming, when I'm not checking work email (we're a Google shop) and/or surfing. The SurfacePro doesn't get as much use as I want it to for some reason. Probably because I still haven't gotten fully used to the Win8 interface and keep reverting to the iPad (when I need something basic [email/web]) done quickly, or my Win7 gaming rig when I need to do real work (remote desktop to work pc for programming) or real gaming. The Samsung Galaxy phone i use mostly for work email on the run, as well as light surfing and heavy price scanning/comparing when out and about in stores :) Its getting a bit annoying to be honest to be switching all the time between the devices and I wouldn't mind having a nice middle ground device that could potentially handle all the work related stuff (RDC/email/surfing) and still be reliably portable/hardy (i.e. SSD hd) and have a bigger than 10" screen. Heck, maybe even make me comfortable enough with the infrastructure to finally buy something off the Win8 app store (that Halo game).
  • araczynski - Thursday, September 12, 2013 - link

    forgot, i do own a wii/360/ps3, but i've relegated them more or less to my 8 year old daughter's entertainment. getting tired of console gaming, seems the focus is exclusively multiplayer in all games, which I have no time for or interest in.
  • PakkaDakka - Thursday, September 12, 2013 - link

    So I have an old desktop running a Core 2 Quad Q6700, with a 60 GB Agility 2. The only thing recent is a HD6850. I also have an original Atom netbook as well. Very old tech. I love the underdog and could really use some new tech.
  • Ortanon - Thursday, September 12, 2013 - link

    My laptop is a little older and bulkier and I've been wanting something slimmer (with better battery life) for a while now. This would be right up my alley since I travel a lot for work and am a vain snob who likes thinner gadgets.
  • Watch_dogs - Thursday, September 12, 2013 - link

    Intel Core 2 Duo Processor, and widows Vista, with some old 2002 monitor. I just need a portable, lightweight laptop that is quick enough, and can do some light gaming:) This would be perfect:)AMD is the way to go price for performance!
  • Baenwort - Thursday, September 12, 2013 - link

    I've got an Sandy Bridge and ATI 7950 desktop with dual monitors for home gaming. A Mythlogic 11,6in laptop with an Ivy Bridge quad core and Nvidia 650m. And my wife's Acer 11.6in AMD C-60 netbook.

    This would be a replacement for my wifes netbook and would improve her photo editing as she wouldn't need to borrow my desktop and it's calibrated monitors as I could calibrate this device. It would also likely have a longer battery life as the Acer is several years old.
  • richard G. - Thursday, September 12, 2013 - link

    I've got a cheap Lenovo b575 and the battery life is pretty bad (2-3 hours max). it'd be nice to have a laptop that'll last a while longer for when I'm on the road or writing papers.
  • vulture48 - Friday, September 13, 2013 - link

    Yesss Please!
  • altarity - Friday, September 13, 2013 - link

    I have an AMD A-8 5600 based desktop for the home office and a 2008 macbook when I work away from home. I love that AMD led the the APU revolution. CPU's have been fast enough for my computing needs for 5 years, so I really appreciate the graphics power that AMD platforms offer. The mac was great when I was in school, but I would love something more modern and easier to travel with.

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