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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  • pauler - Thursday, September 5, 2013 - link

    I own an 18.4 inch toshiba qosmio and I've had it for roughly 4 years. I'd like to win this laptop so that I have something more portable to take around with me when I'm working on a story or editing papers at school or on location. As a newspaper editor, I'd also love the opportunity to write a review on Acer V5 so I hope i win!
  • cairbram - Thursday, September 5, 2013 - link

    I've got a gaming/Autocad tower (for classwork and play) and a Macbook 6,1 which is a hand-me-down from my family but I've tricked it out with a OCZ vector 128GB, a second hard drive in the optical drive bay and 8 GB of ram, this laptop is used as my main computer and travels with me to school but I would like something smaller and which isn't falling apart. As for true mobility I've got a HTC ONE 64GB running Aosp which gets used mostly to check tech websites like this one, play music and communicate. Winning this laptop would allow me to retire my macbook which has various ailments such as a cracked and bulging battery, acetone melted body/keyboard (which I've sanded to a nice matte finish to hide the severity) and a breaking screen hinge, as well a give me a much more manageably proportioned laptop to tote to school for note taking, writing lab reports and doing homework.
  • JTK21351 - Thursday, September 5, 2013 - link

    I've got a desktop set up in my dorm room, but I'd love to have a machine to bring around to classes with me for note taking and whatnot. I'd also love a shot at writing for the site ;)
  • ryanjacoby2 - Thursday, September 5, 2013 - link

    I'm currently the proud owner of a K53TA using the A6 APU. I use it mostly for budget gaming, and Visual Studio/Visio applications so it works well for my needs. The laptop gets very loud in class because of the integrated CPU/GPU whether gaming or just browsing the web. I'm extremely interested in the development and evolution of AMD's APU especially when compared with Intel, and would love to see how this new laptop would perform. The upgrade to an IPS display would be massive (especially considering I have no tablet to compare against) along with the general experience of testing an ultrabook.
    I'd also be exceptionally happy to write an honest (and hopefully very positive) review of this beautiful machine.
  • Biathanatos - Thursday, September 5, 2013 - link

    I've got a 2-year-old Asus gaming laptop that I use a primary machine, and my wife has an old Macbook Pro, but I'd love to get a much more portable light-usage computer, and I've wanted to try out AMDs for a while.
    I'll use it for portable web development primarily, especially while on the move. At the moment, I do some of that on a new Nexus 7 tablet, but Android is pretty limited in that area. I'd likely dual-boot Ubuntu to work more with Node.js and other Linux/Mac apps.
    I often leave thorough reviews on products I purchase, as I think it's a great service to other buyers.
  • PerrinAybara162 - Thursday, September 5, 2013 - link

    I currently only own one computer, an amalgamation of different parts (a 4 year old Gateway with an AMD Athelon, a GT 9400, my old 500GB Seagate laptop hard drive from when my laptop crapped out a few years back, 6GB of RAM, four of which came stock with the machine and 2 Corsair gaming sticks from 6 years ago, you get the picture). If its relevant, my wife has an HTC First and I have an old HTC Inspire. Having one of these laptops would give me something to bring with me when I start College hopefully in the fall. It would also give me something for my wife to use from bed for the days when she has trouble getting out of bed. Also, I have always wanted to be able to try out an SSD.
  • HiiraTeruyo - Thursday, September 5, 2013 - link

    I have a near 3 year old first generation i7 laptop that generally just generates too much heat for me to really do much on, which tends to be quite a bit as a student. Additionally, it weighs in close to 6lbs with a 16" screen, so it tends to get a bit tedious to carry around all the time. To round the package off, the battery has reached the point where it'll only last about 5 or 10 minutes at a time.

    I also have an ipad 2 that I generally use for ebooks for classes that only need some light note taking, since I try to avoid lugging around my current laptop for the reasons listed.

    What winning this Acer would mean for me is a much more unified loadout for school, as I'll most likely be using it for all my classes that'll let me have my laptop, and probably mix in some gaming in my spare time. The biggest benefit I would feel is not having to have it eternally plugged in, and leaving all the heavy weights for my books, instead of my productivity unit.
  • Schemer4 - Thursday, September 5, 2013 - link

    I own an ancient PowerPC Mac, which I use to SSH into a Raspberry Pi where I do Haskell programming. The fan on my PowerPC Mac is broken so it crashes all the time, but I use GNU screen to connect to the Raspberry Pi, so I just reconnect to the session and keep going.
  • Schemer4 - Thursday, September 5, 2013 - link

    Added: Winning would mean compiling probably 100 times as fast and no crashing, so it would be huge. I would also get to experiment with Windows development tools, which I've never gotten a chance to play with.
  • Devfarce - Thursday, September 5, 2013 - link

    Would love to give feedback to AT and AMD. Need a new laptop too to replace my ca 2007 C2D system

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