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MacRumors Giveaway: Win a New Mac Studio From GRID Studio

I wish these competitions were open to Australians too. I know the odds of winning are basically zero, but the excitement of thinking you might win seems fun, like a lottery ticket.
 
This is one awesome giveaway! I'm so in with this one. Haven't won anything thus far with the giveaways but I keep entering nonetheless. And now I have one more entry, since I have joined the forums. Sweet!
 
I like this type of artwork and the Studio would go a long way for my own art that I am returning to after many many years.
 
Still dont get these international limitations, as if USA, Canada and UK are the same country, let alone UK being in Europe.
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Those displays are awesome! I did something similar when the purchaser of one of my companies first built computers brought it back and shopped for a new up to date replacement. It was one of the first few we ever built, and was a Pentium-MMX system. Yikes... But I was so proud that they kept it, it still worked, and wanted to buy a new replacement system built by us. I made a 'shadow box' of the motherboard and some of the parts, and it was pretty cool to see it on the wall. I still have it years after we closed. It was so cool to look at where technology had progressed too.
 
dysamoria said:
I’ve won stuff, but it’s always been kinda... meh, ultimately.

As a kid, I once won a complete Borland Object Pascal developer package by raffle just by attending a local(?) Borland development seminar. My dad was thinking I’d become a programmer (parents really tried to push me away from music or art! ?).

Oh the irony of winning a development kit. I can’t program; I have dyscalculia. Trying to learn Object Pascal really drove the point home (yet, I tried to learn C++ during my BeOS days anyway; foolish). I recycled the Borland package’s many pounds of ancient and useless documentation fairly recently.

Then I won Windows 98se from Microsoft Magazine because I submitted the winning tip of adding Notepad to the SendTo context menu (well, it really was a good tip).

Oh the irony of winning something from Microsoft (a company I learned to hate some time between Windows XP and Vista; entirely earned hate, via Microsoft’s many abuses & failures). Not to mention this prize just helped Microsoft further the goal of entrenching Windows usage.

Then I finally won something actually appropriate to my interests: Future Music sent me an M-Audio Sputnik microphone for some magazine contest or raffle (I can’t remember which anymore).

It’s the ONLY example of expensive M-Audio products I own that wasn’t turned into useless garbage by the sale of M-Audio by Avid to the scummy inMusic Brands corporate vulture (OS driver support was dropped for all FireWire products after the sale, turning my ProjectMix I/O and LightBridge units into garbage as soon as I upgraded beyond Snow Leopard; replacing both has been costly and incomplete).

The still-useful Sputnik microphone is the only one in which I did NOT actually invest any of my own money. It’s a nice microphone. It even came with a shock mount. The thing is, I already had bought a Neumann TLM103 microphone years prior, so I didn’t need the Sputnik (they didn’t have an alternative prize to offer, so I accepted it).

Winning isn’t everything... ?
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I won a nearly three foot tall Energizer Bunny. Bonus that the brand name sandals on him fit my feet. I won an Intel microscope. Anyone remember that failed kid friendly product? I don't think I ever saw it as an actual product. I also won a single Xeon Slot 2 processor. Slot 2 died a few months later. Perhaps the biggest win was a Coke bottle cap contest. I lived near a bottler and the rules said you could get 6 unused caps a week, and all tolled think I got just over $100, and some other swag. I was going there so much they asked if I ever actually bought their stuff in a store. 'I didn't make the rules'. They started telling me I couldn't return winning caps the same day. They started dragging out the redemption process too. Again, I didn't make the rules... :cool:
 
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Get a bonus entry for being a forum user > tell us your handle > enter your name and email > sorry, you need to login through Google or Meta.
 
Phogro said:
I'm happy you took time to respond and add some color to the matter, but the oversight I'm referring to is more about the transparency of the drawing / winner process. This is not an attack on MR by any means, but more just pure curiosity. In most cases the drawings are done behind closed doors and the winners are not made public. This means there's no way for the public to verify that the company holding the giveaway is following basic rules.

1.) How do we know the winner isn't an employee or relative of an employee of MR or the sponsor?
2.) How do we know that the winner didn't enter with multiple accounts to increase their odds?

That said - I do trust that MacRumors is not a shady business and I believe that you do everything you can to minimize any sort of issues like this. It's just not clear to me how the public can verify these things are followed.

Again - I want to stress I'm not talking about MacRumors specifically here but internet giveaways in general. They all follow the same pattern and I've always wondered what sort of oversight is in place to prevent a company from holding a giveaway and collecting thousands of email addresses and then either not delivering the product or delivering the product to a predetermined winner who is conflicted with the sponsor or company.
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1. Employees, close relatives of employees, and sponsors are not allowed to enter. I suppose the best way to verify is to hear from MR readers who have won, and they do often comment on threads when questions like these come up. Like I said, I use RNG to pick the winner, so even if an employee entered, it's pretty unlikely their name would come up. It's obviously not 100% fool proof because I might not know if the second cousin of a sponsor entered, but there's no cherry picking of winners going on.

I do not publish the names of winners to protect their privacy and I don't have plans to change that at this time. I also make sure that nothing happens with the email addresses that are used to enter. We do not use them and we do not share them, with the exception of the winner's email address for shipping purposes.

2. Gleam has tools that detect this and it automatically filters out people who are entering with multiple accounts.

I can't speak to other internet giveaways, but ours are on the up and up. I have no incentive or reason to trick our readers and the effort and hours that I put into giveaways is entirely to get prizes for you all. I/we don't get anything else out of it. If you are suspicious about the motives of a site hosting a giveaway, including MR, I'd encourage you not to enter.
 
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In it, Thanks, BTW, I am blocked on twitter from sharing mac sweeps like 5 years ago. be great to get twitter entries. Been a member since the early days.
 
MacRumors said:


To celebrate the upcoming launch of the new Mac Studio from Apple, we've teamed up with GRID Studio to offer MacRumors readers a chance to win a new M1 Max Mac Studio or one of GRID Studio's deconstructed Apple device art pieces.

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GRID Studio is known for creating art from vintage Apple devices that are an important part of Apple's history. Each device is disassembled, and the components are artfully displayed behind a glass frame that can be hung on the wall of any Apple fan.

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Because GRID Studio works with classic Apple devices, there won't be any deconstructed Mac Studio art pieces for sale for some time, but there are plenty of other offerings on the GRID Studio website, with prices starting at around $40 and going up depending on complexity.

The GRID 1, for example, is one of GRID Studio's most popular pieces because it features an original iPhone, perhaps the most important device in Apple's history. Priced at $400, the GRID 1 is often sold out, but GRID Studio has a new series of GRID 1 pieces coming later in March.

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Measuring in at 13x13x8, the GRID 1 features a torn apart iPhone with all of the internal components separated out and labeled so you can see everything that made the original iPhone so special at a glance. The shell of the iPhone is displayed next to individual components that include the power button, headphone socket, speaker, logic board, circuit board, ear piece, and other components.

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Each piece of GRID art highlights what was important about the featured iPhone. With the $140 GRID iPhone 4S, for example, there's a clear look at the classic squared-off edges that Apple recently brought back for the iPhone 12 and iPhone 13, along with the circular volume buttons and the A5 chipset.

If you have a favorite classic iPhone, there's a good chance that GRID has taken it apart. In addition to the original iPhone, there are also GRID pieces for everything up to the iPhone X, along with A-series chips like the A5X, the Apple Watch, the Magic Mouse, and more.

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The $269 GRID iPhone X is interesting because the iPhone X was Apple's first iPhone with a notch and the Face ID facial recognition system. You can see the Face ID components laid out next to other iPhone X parts like the dual-lens camera, Taptic Engine, and A11 Bionic chip.

Every GRID Studio piece includes all of the original parts of the device, but the company does not use real batteries to prevent any issues with the battery expanding or exploding with age. GRID's artwork is perfect for an office decoration or as a gift for an Apple fan. Disassembled devices are attractive to look at, informative, and offer a fun glimpse into Apple's history.

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One grand prize winner will receive an M1 Max Mac Studio with 10-core GPU, 24-core GPU, 32GB unified memory, and 512GB SSD, plus a GRID 1 that features the original iPhone. A second prize winner will receive the GRID iPhone X, a third prize winner will receive the GRID iPhone 4S, and three additional winners will receive the GRID A5X.

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To enter to win our giveaway for one of GRID Studio's art pieces, use the Gleam.io widget below and enter an email address. Email addresses will be used solely for contact purposes to reach the winners and send the prizes. You can earn additional entries by subscribing to our weekly newsletter, subscribing to our YouTube channel, following us on Twitter, following us on Instagram, or visiting the MacRumors Facebook page.

Due to the complexities of international laws regarding giveaways, only U.S. residents who are 18 years or older, UK residents who are 18 years or older, and Canadian residents (excluding Quebec) who have reached the age of majority in their province or territory are eligible to enter. All federal, state, provincial, and/or local taxes, fees, and surcharges are the sole responsibility of the prize winner. To offer feedback or get more information on the giveaway restrictions, please refer to our Site Feedback section, as that is where discussion of the rules will be redirected.

The contest will run from today (March 10) at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time through 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time on March 17. The winners will be chosen randomly on March 17 and will be contacted by email. The winners will have 48 hours to respond and provide a shipping address before new winners are chosen.

Article Link: MacRumors Giveaway: Win a New Mac Studio From GRID Studio
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This Mac Studio is an AWESOME prize for the giveaway!! I will say that I have this contest ONCE a few years ago when the prize was a set of some kind of off-brand black wired earbuds. They work pretty well and they fit my ears better than the standard Apple earbuds. But now that I have the wireless Beats Fit Pro, I don't use them anymore.

But, to answer all of the doubters out there, I was just like you when I used to enter these contests in the past, and then I actually WON something! So, believe it!! These MacRumors Giveaways are the real deal and are totally legit. If you're a fan of MacRumors anyway, there's no harm in entering the contests. So what if you follow them on Social Media and you get their newsletter? You're already on their site following them anyway, so just suck it up and enter the contest!
 
jclo said:
1. Employees, close relatives of employees, and sponsors are not allowed to enter. I suppose the best way to verify is to hear from MR readers who have won, and they do often comment on threads when questions like these come up. Like I said, I use RNG to pick the winner, so even if an employee entered, it's pretty unlikely their name would come up. It's obviously not 100% fool proof because I might not know if the second cousin of a sponsor entered, but there's no cherry picking of winners going on.

I do not publish the names of winners to protect their privacy and I don't have plans to change that at this time. I also make sure that nothing happens with the email addresses that are used to enter. We do not use them and we do not share them, with the exception of the winner's email address for shipping purposes.

2. Gleam has tools that detect this and it automatically filters out people who are entering with multiple accounts.

I can't speak to other internet giveaways, but ours are on the up and up. I have no incentive or reason to trick our readers and the effort and hours that I put into giveaways is entirely to get prizes for you all. I/we don't get anything else out of it. If you are suspicious about the motives of a site hosting a giveaway, including MR, I'd encourage you not to enter.
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Thanks for taking the time to answer these questions and I do trust that MR has the integrity to do things legitimately and I appreciate the transparency that you're providing.

My comments again are in general about the state of online giveaways as a whole. Yeah they're great tools for you to build your email lists and social following, they're nice ways to give back to the readers who frequent your site and it is fun entertainment as a whole hoping that "this week is the week I'm gonna finally win one".

And yea, I'm aware that asking for oversight might also backfire. If there are too many rules, too much red tape, then it becomes not worth it from a business perspective to offer giveaways. This is the problem with bad actors though - they force the hands of those who do have integrity to do more in an effort to weed out potential scammers and fraud artists.

In general I agree the only solution we have as the general public right now is to be aware of what we're signing up for and if something seems fishy then walk away and potentially even report the site. Until there's more laws and rules written about online giveaways it's the only tools we have available to us.
 
People complaining about the US requirement? I'm on Strava and there are tons of contests and such there, and almost all of them require some form of European residency. There are quite a lot of people who have won them, only to be denied at the end because they don't meet the residency requirements.

Many of those are tied to athletic metrics like miles (kilometers) and time, so many just join them for the urging to get the distance/time done, but residency requirements had me completely stop doing them for the past 2 years. I'm back doing a few, but 'read the fine print'. That is true in life in general too, and sometimes that 'fine print' isn't actually printed.

So many of the giveaways here have been drool worthy so keep it up. Eventually I'll win one. (If history is any judge of my past winnings, it'll be an Apple themed cat toy, or a left handed power charger, or something I don't have much use for. ??‍♂️??‍♂️:D:cool:)

(And, Strava, I will consider moving to Europe to take possession of a new Dogma, but only if it has Dura Ace components!:oops:)
 
Phogro said:
Thanks for taking the time to answer these questions and I do trust that MR has the integrity to do things legitimately and I appreciate the transparency that you're providing.

My comments again are in general about the state of online giveaways as a whole. Yeah they're great tools for you to build your email lists and social following, they're nice ways to give back to the readers who frequent your site and it is fun entertainment as a whole hoping that "this week is the week I'm gonna finally win one".

And yea, I'm aware that asking for oversight might also backfire. If there are too many rules, too much red tape, then it becomes not worth it from a business perspective to offer giveaways. This is the problem with bad actors though - they force the hands of those who do have integrity to do more in an effort to weed out potential scammers and fraud artists.

In general I agree the only solution we have as the general public right now is to be aware of what we're signing up for and if something seems fishy then walk away and potentially even report the site. Until there's more laws and rules written about online giveaways it's the only tools we have available to us.
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The only thing there is no oversight is the weight of importance given to each +1 entry in the list because signing up to macrumours newsletter and following the provider of the giveaway will be seen as more important that the others because the more people that signup to the newsletter means it directly benifits MR and following the provider of the giveaway directly benifits them. So, when the winner is drawn, is how the winner voted looked at to see if they voted for the two important things in the list and if they didn't, is the draw done again because as has been said, the draw is done in secret. We have no idea how many times the draw is done.
 
laptech said:
The only thing there is no oversight is the weight of importance given to each +1 entry in the list because signing up to macrumours newsletter and following the provider of the giveaway will be seen as more important that the others because the more people that signup to the newsletter means it directly benifits MR and following the provider of the giveaway directly benifits them. So, when the winner is drawn, is how the winner voted looked at to see if they voted for the two important things in the list and if they didn't, is the draw done again because as has been said, the draw is done in secret. We have no idea how many times the draw is done.
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It was stated that if you are drawn, you win. I trust that. Weighting the winner by what they subscribe to takes time. It seems silly to do that. *shrug* At some point, you have to trust someone...
 
I know I won't win but I'm still excited nonetheless lol! Whoever wins definitely should share a picture on the forums of their shiny new Mac studio on their desk! (or the art on their wall, but I feel like you'd be crazy to not take the Studio!)
 
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