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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  • omaudio - Monday, September 23, 2013 - link

    Did you guys finish this and if so who won?
    C
  • luizpaulo - Monday, September 23, 2013 - link

    Haswell CPU Core I7 4930k, 16gb DDR3-1600 Samsung 840Pro Dual WD 2TB AMD 7970

    Doing on site tech support and having a small and light notebook will help a lot.
  • misscomp - Monday, September 23, 2013 - link

    I currently have all desktops in my house. I am looking for a notebook to take with me to the library to do some work when I am at the library. The notebook featured above is nice but I wished it had a more high resolution screen, something I will pay another 100-200 dollars more to get into the 1080 territory for a notebook. Amd has good value processors and this is why I buy their products. I do light gaming. I plan to also develop apps in the future so will look for a cpu for a desktop with some decent compiling power.
  • wisque - Monday, September 23, 2013 - link

    Main computer is currently an OptiPlex 755 which runs our 40" TV as a media center and file server. I gave my Dell M1730 XPS laptop to a church to use for graphic design and other needs. I do most content consumption on my Lumia 920 or on the Media Center when my wife/daughter isn't watching TV but have nothing that can play modern games. Would love this new laptop for the family to use instead of the media center.
  • drunreal - Monday, September 23, 2013 - link

    May the best win!
  • jmartells - Monday, September 23, 2013 - link

    I would love this!!
  • dcarros - Tuesday, September 24, 2013 - link

    Custom built AMD 8150, 3.5T storage, running Altergos (Arch fork), Kindle fire 2, Chromebook CR-48, old Gateway setup as a PVR
  • rikmorgan - Wednesday, September 25, 2013 - link

    My previous entry still applies so I would use it, but how do I find it? I tried the search box with my name in it, it returned nothing. I went to my profile, some forums have your collection there, but nothing there. Am I just missing it, is there a way to find my posts? Anyway, a mac mini and a horrible windows laptop whose mousepad just can't keep up with me. Both used for financial modeling. Would like a portable programming machine with some gpu cores for Open CL programming.
  • denzphee - Wednesday, September 25, 2013 - link

    I currently have a Yoga 13 (i5 3rd gen). This is significant because prior to this laptop, I would never even consider an Intel CPU. I have always found the AMD gave me the best 'bang for my buck', so to speak.

    Unfortunately, my previous laptop, a HP dv6zqe (A8-3500m) left something to be desired, especially with the relative difficulty in using the switchable graphics with linux and the heat created when used to browse the internet (light to medium usage). This has caused me to 'jump ship' and surprisingly, I have been happy with my Yoga 13's performance and battery life, along with how relatively cool it remained.

    I would hope to win this v5-122p (A6-1450) laptop so that I can evaluate AMD's current offering and how it will fit my needs better than the HP dv6zqe did.

    Main points of interest: Battery life compared to the i5 3rd gen. and other similar CPU's, IRL performance ("in real life"), Heat, future iterations (potential).

    If these results are favorable to AMD, I may consider going back to AMD in the forseeable future.

    Thank you for the opportunity and looking forward to the possibility of seeing how far AMD has come and how they fare with current Intel offerings.
  • denzphee - Wednesday, September 25, 2013 - link

    sigh. Sorry. Late to the party again.

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