macbook pro – Josh Hrach

Thanks @IntoMobile (and dad)!

Josh on October 20, 2009

This summer has been interesting, to say the least. I’ve already talked about the free MacBook Pro I won, courtesy of SourceForge. My dad has been enjoying that quite a bit. He’s put his customization into it already, which I expected right away. Due to him winning a free one, we also made a little deal: We’d split the cost of another MacBook Pro. It seemed like a win-win deal, especially considering that he had one for free.

Well, before I won that, I had won a $200 gift card to the Apple Store. That was thanks to a little giveaway that IntoMobile was running. Because of that gift card, I began seriously considering buying something at Apple. At first, it was just a passing thought. Then, I began to ponder the idea of getting a MacBook Pro and an iPhone (especially as the IntoMobile giveaway was due to the release of the iPhone 3GS).

Well, those thoughts have all come to pass. I now have my nice new MacBook Pro and, with it, an iPhone. Hopefully, the two will go hand-in-hand for me as I work on making both of them worth the purchase.

So, thanks to IntoMobile for the $200 gift card! And thanks to my dad for going along with the idea. I think he’s enjoying his iPhone, too.

Now to get used to running iTunes… and owning an iPod (of sorts)…

Thanks For The MacBook Pro, SourceForge!

Josh on August 22, 2009

When I first signed up for Twitter back in February, I had no idea that it would be helping me win free stuff. Even now, I still can’t believe it. Except, of course, for the fact that I’ve actually received the free stuff.

I also would never have expected SourceForge to ever give me something for free, either. Yet, they have. And for that, SourceForge, I definitely thank you! I am My family is glad to have a new MacBook, too.

It all goes back to one month ago… I had heard about SourceForge’s 2009 Community Choice Awards and some live feeds they were going to do for the event. But wait! There’s more? They were giving away four MacBook Pros during the live coverage. Wow! Of course, what are the chances of me winning one, right?

Well, winning one required tweeting answers to trivia questions. I was shocked when the first question was one that I actually had an idea about. “What movie did Apple use to hype its new QuickTime4 format?” I won’t give the answer, so have fun figuring it out! But, being the first to tweet @SourceForge with the correct answer, I soon learned I was right.

And so that started the journey of the new MacBook! It took some verification of personal data, some FedEx transit, but in the end, it made it here one month after that fateful night. Tuesday, I received an email with the FedEx tracking number and, thankfully, within two days, it was here.

Here are some photos from the grand opening! (Sorry for the lack of thumbnails… WordPress is giving me some issues with uploading photos.)

While it’s such a sweet looking piece of technology, I decided that I would not keep this. Nope, this MacBook is now my dad’s newest toy. I still have plans for a MacBook, but it wasn’t going to be this one. So, there you go, dad!

Again, a big thank you to SourceForge! I come to your site often for open source needs. And now I can we can thank you for this shiny new MacBook Pro, as well!