Wow… I am speechless! After making a post a couple weeks ago about what a huge fan of Intel I am, I was contacted by someone at Intel and asked for my address. I thought maybe they would send me a sticker for my laptop or something. Well they sent me something all right!
Yesterday when I got home my wife said we had 3 boxes from Intel. Now, the ShoeMoney household gets a lot of shipments, but three boxes from Intel…I was thinking, “that’s a lot of t-shirts!” I booked home to see what was up and …. there it was… a bad ass desktop and 2 monitors and a note that said “Love your Blog ShoeMoney! – Your Friends At Intel.”
Here are the specs on this MONSTER system:
Tower:
Intel® Core™ i7 Extreme Edition 965 Nehalem 3.2GHz Quad Core CPU
6GB RAM
300GB system drive, 2 TB on-board RAID 0 storage array
Firewire, USB, eSata & Gigabit Ethernet ports
Blu-Ray RW Drive + BD ROM-DVD/CD R/W Drive
Nvidia 9800GX2 graphics card.
Monitors:
2 X Samsung SyncMaster T245 – 24″
As if the hardward wasn’t enough, for Software they included:
Adobe CS3.3 Production Premium Suite
Microsoft Windows Vista 64bit OS
I mean, I got a FANTASY hardware package PLUS software?!
This computer is no joke. The case was really awesome. PC’s have come a long way since I switched over to macs.
I really like the case. Its not like the cheap Plexiglas most cases have.
VERY COOL of intel to include this “geek kit”. Has about every cable and adapter that you could ever need.
I had never used Samsung monitors before but these are frickin sweeeeet! Super hi res and a nice, classy, glossy finish on them.
One of the first things I did was install a copy of Quake 4 I had laying around and proceeded to demolish all comers on the interweb. Quad rockets 4tw!
This system TOTALLY ROCKS MY SOCKS. Photoshop and Flash in the Adobe Suite was SO FLUID. Simply amazing!
Thank you so much Intel! I look forward to playing around with it more in the next couple weeks!
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lol, cool gift for sure!
Holy! Got all that for free? Nice!
Wow that’s awesome, merry christmas!
I’m so jealous…
This is nothing to him, he could have bought this if he wanted to.
This is the equivalent to most of the commenters finding a $20 bill on their way to Walmart.
Definitely.. I believe that was worth a few thousand dollars already.
Too bad they didn’t include any SSD hard drives! Now THAT is fast!
Congrats on the gift, well earned! I would love to have this machine, we do a heck of a lot of animation work here and this would really be an amazing machine to have running 3DS Max on!
Jon
http://WoodMarvels.com – Create Unique Memories
Now that’s a Merry Christmas! Merry Xmas Jeremy, Happy Hannukah, and Seasons Greetings! Hope this new year treats you extrememly well….
To everyone else on the blog! I wish you a very very happy holiday…hope your new year celebration is peaceful and may the new year be filled with success, and greatness for all of you..
-Ruben RIcart
What a lucky bastard. The man gets absolutely everything he wants. Why not give it to someone that needs it?
ya…. exactly
Working hard has many advantages for great rewards.
Yeah, dude’s definately worked for it, why the hell would he give it away?
Even more motivation for people to get to his level.
You work hard you play hard i guess is how it goes!! Let him enjoy the fruits of his labour – I wouldn’t want to give that sweet rig up either!!
Yeah I need that.. Haha! I typed so much that my enter button just screwed up.
totally I wish someone gifted me something like this =)
What an awesome gift! That must rank as one of the best gifts received yet! One day I’ll also be famous and get pressies like this for punting a brand! This definitely adds to your web-cred Jeremy!
A very Merry Christmas indeed, a cylinder of nitro couldn’t have been any better. “I feel the need for speed.”
Dude that is a freaking SWEET setup!!! Samsung monitors rock – I’ve been using them for years – you’re a lucky man Mr Schoemaker!! Merry Christmas!!
WOW! The perks of problogging are amazing
That was extremely nice of Intel, and looks like one fantastic setup!
No worries Tom.. We will get ours one day too.
and? will you switch back to your mac or will you stay with this PC? Would be waste of CPU cycles to leave that Monster machine unused
. Quake rocks btw.
Happy christmas!
Good question. I wonder if he’ll do that.
That’s too awesome! Enjoy playing Quake 4.
Merry Christmas!
A true gamer indeed – I loved the quake series – I used to be the quake 2 champion – ahhh the good old days
LOL yeah I was quaking all the way last time too. I am pretty sure the graphics did help alot..
I’m more of Starcraft fan, but you don’t need a super processor or ultimate graphics for that.
Come from behind top commentator right here looks like I got my work cut out for me lol
The new Starcraft II is due out sometime in 2009, and believe you me that one will want some resources. I cut my RTS teeth on Starcraft. Loved it!
Is this a gift???
Yes! From intel!! And what a sweeeeeeeeeeeet gift it is!!
OMG – When I grow up I want to be just like Shoemoney.
See Virginia, there really IS a Santa Clause.
Merry Christmas
That machine is nuts! If you decide to keep using the mac, you have one heck of a gaming platform on your hands. Can you say WOW? (I made a pun, haha.) Merry Christmas dude.
On the first day of Christmas, Intel gave to me…one loaded PC.
Merry Christmas!
i think one FULLY loaded PC ryhmes best
As much as I have liked going with the smaller footprint PCs that is pretty sweet. Nice investment by Intel!
NIce Christmas present there Shoemoney. Six Gig of ram is over the top, sweeeet!
I honestly wouldn’t even know what to do with 6 gigs of ram lol
load all my programs into my ram maybe?? LOL
Lol…It feels like a lot now, but in a couple of years 8 gig will be the norm.
The technology curve is something that is just awesome. I remember a certain Pentium 75, followed by a Pentium 200MMX…..32MB Matrox MIllennium video cards, 17″ CRT monitors…….am I giving my age away here? Bottom line is that the latest machines are friggin amazing, and doubling their capabilities regularly.
I could use that much RAM right about now.
That is a sweet gift pack they put together for you. Did I mention I like Intel too?
Me too! Me too! Hahahahahah!
WOW WOW WOW!!! That’s so freaking amazing mann!! I bet it’s the best Christmas gift you have ever get!!!
You deserve it btw!! well done
Regards,
Firas
I dont know if thats the best gift he’ll ever get – this IS Shoemoney we’re talking about hehehe
this is an aewsome gift for sure. If some of the intel guys is reading this I really love intel
Very sweet package. Another great example of “you never know who is reading your blog”…
Yea, like Hulk Hogan
No kidding. Who knows what kind of gift he’ll get next time.
Nice looking setup there Jeremy! Not my bag as I am a mac user, but sweet!
Merry Christmas
Tom
In all honesty, I might consider switching to a mac if they started putting out badass looking gaming rigs like the one Schoe got here – I always felt that was the one thing the mac was lacking – the customizability of the PC
thats a really sweet gift from intel,
merry chistmas
totally a happy christmas for you this year ! i’m happy for you..wondering if i can get any for myself too..hey Intel Malaysia…if i made a post on how i love Intel…would you give me something for christmas ??
I doubt they can ship something in one day, but it’s worth a try!
Wow, Jeremy! You hit the jackpot. Just does to show what a good word can do. Have fun and make sure to fire up World of Warcraft on that bad boy.
All work and no play make Intenet Marketers cranky.
OMG ! What an xmas present,, lucky git !!
Have a good xmas shoe !
Corporations are beginning to realize that seeding prominent bloggers with awesome stuff has tremendous ROI.
In all honesty its true – That is a SWEET rig – I would love to buy something exactly like it!!
Holy crap man. That is sweet! Tell your frinds at Intel to hook me up.
I recently boought a Samsung T220 which is awesome neat and iam using it as a extention for my laptop
http://www.samsung.com/us/consumer/detail/detail.do?group=computersperipherals&type=monitors&subtype=lcd&model_cd=LS22TWHSUV/ZA Its the same of your 24″ but 2″ smaller!
Nice system.
Understatement of 2008 right here lol!!!
Wow, I wish my blog had the “power” like that. Nice setup indeed. Merry Christmas!
Yup that was my christmas wish..
You can still install mac os x on that beast of a machine. Let’s face, apple rocks, but their hardware specs don’t.
http://wiki.osx86project.org/
I officially hate you!
hahahah me too
haha nice one, I was thinking of leaving a similar comment!
You something, I was thinking the same thing lol…
I hated him when he told me he makes $40,000 from this blog in a month
Wow very nice. I wonder if I make a post saying how much I love nike they will send me some free sneakers?
Then I would write about lamborghini man..
Screw Lamborghini, I’d write about a Space Shuttle.
Then maybe Richard Branson will give you a free seat on Virgin Galatic [each seat is currently $200,000.]
I’m afraid Lamborghini would just laugh at me and if I was really super lucky I would have a one in a million shot at them sending me a free brochure.
u r a wonderful blogger…regards from
http://www.way2books.com
I really like Intel as well (you reading this intel?) umm I also like playboy bunnies, new cars (anything over 100k) new houses and anything else free?
Thats a hell of a setup though, congrats on your early xmas present
LOL – nice try – nice try
Time to do the same with apple, dell, sony, …. and you’ll get loads of presents!
Holy crap! That is freaking awesome. I would KILL for that system. 6GB of ram? That is insane. You could probably dual or triple-box WoW at max resolution with that baby! But don’t do that. It’s bad for your career.
Agreed – I thought I was badass with my 2 gigs in my laptop lol Guess it’s time to UPGRADE
I know where im heading *intel* lol
Ohh, that’s awesome and amazing! You received a very valuable gift Jeremy. In value of money, how all these stuff worth in the market? Merry christmas for all
Ouups, I Missed “much” between how and all :p sorry!
Wow!! a really monster gift… Merry Christmas
Now that’s a marketing team that pays attention to its base. Good job Shoe!
Lol…Shoe is far from it’s “base”.
Their base is probably normal computer users who spend 20 minutes on the computer everyday.
Still, Shoe’s spreading the word.
I just got a similar system with almost identical specs and have to agree that the core i7 definitely conquers all. Congrats on the gifts though, you’ll be a PC guy in no time!
Yea eh?? thats good to know – I havent been in the loop for a while, but atleast now I know where to start when it comes time to buy again!!
I guess you need two enormous monitors when you got the porno on one and your business on the other. Like Jeremy even needs more PC’s and monitors, I’m sure he has plenty however that is sweet, the tower looks like a beast and with those specs, that computer won’t be out of date for years. You’ll be able to jam that hard drive with as many porno and games as you want Shoe, Good luck!
Merry Christmas!
Hey shoe, how many milisecs is it gonna take you to download free christmas music ?
That’s… stunningly amazing.
Quard Core! Moving on up!
That is so awesome of Intel to do that.
Most people still have single core processors.
You know… in reference to my “where is your wish list” comment on the last post… I think this answers the question…
My god.. this is just a fantasy come true.. and btw its a freaking good PC!
Got to love the Tony Montana picture on your wall.
The mans got taste hehehe – how can you not like scar face?? ALL REAL MEN LIKE SCAR FACE lol
“Scarface” is one of the best films ever made. It’s interesting that it was actually a huge flop when it was released in theaters.
Hey ….im gonna copy shoemoney.com just for the sake of that pc!!! lolzzz..
man dats awesome!!!!
Holy crap that’s a nice gift. Enjoy & Happy Holidays.
I love 24 inch Samsung monitors. Have a couple myself and that’s it for me now. Gotta be S-PVA panel monitors though for full time work and not TN. Curious as to what they gave you, probably the more common ones?
Simply amazing! Intel does a lot of giveaways when I’ve been at computer gaming events and such. I’ve never won anything, or seen them give something out as nice as this, but hey… Shoemoney deserves it. He did some advertising for them without having to pay him a dime. I just see it as a return of the favor he did for them.
Nice setup! You should have taken a picture of the note that says something about loving your blog though.
Omg Nice, The monitors look awesome
Those are some sweet monitors !!!
Nice gift, merry christmas schoe and to all of you
Have a wonderful white christmas
Damn, you’re lucky!
Congrats on the new system…Merry Christmas to you and your growing family
Wow that is soooo amazing. I have a crappy emachine with Intel. I hope you enjoy that beast.
Nice gifts! Congratulations Shoe!
Intel seems like a nice company.
Merry Christmas Shoe and every one, that’s one bad ass computer.
are you very lucky, man!
-.-
Great Googly Moogly … Intel is really kissing up this year huh .. they’re trying to convert you.
… I’d like to see them try to convert me .. Go ahead Intel .. Try it .. I dare you .. LOL
Holly sh*t, you have fuc*ing amazing christmas!!!
thats a big setup, deffinitely intimidating computer stuff
W.T.F.?
That’s literally my freakin dream machine! And they straight sent it to you. You’re the man, man.
Much love to Intel!
Damn I’m jealous! I guess being an up and coming tech blog doesn’t warrant the same perks as marketing blogger. Maybe we’ll get there one of these days.
Intel’s marketing team are on the ball, that’s for sure.
Very nice kit you got – are you gonna run a competition and give that bad boy away?
Wow that computer is really cool. I wonder how much is it worth?
I’m officially now a hater:)
That set up is no joke.
What happens if you say you are a huge fan of Hummer? Do they send you a new one? Just wondering.
You should give it a go!
I don’t think I have the following to pull it off, yet.
Wow you are the luckiest guy in the world
WOW, Very nice system specification!
Good job for Intel, and great Christmas for you too
The advantages to be a Shoemoney, obviously this came after a lot of work and talent. Merry Christmas Shoe, from Scorpiono, a 19 year old webmaster from Romania.
ummm:-?
What exactly you can NOT do with that system?
Wow, that’s awesome, Shoe. Definitely an early Xmas gift! lol
Shoemoney,
What’s with the picture hanging on your wall? “The World Is Yours?” are you like trying to remind something to yourself every time you look at it? Are you kind of person?
Or maybe he’s just a fan of “Scarface”?
Orders? You giving me orders? Amigo, the only thing in this world that gives orders is balls. You got that? Balls.
Rule number one: Never underestimate the other guy’s greed!
Rule number two: Don’t get high on your own supply.
I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
Who put this thing together? Me, that’s who! Who do I trust? Me!
In my humble opinion that if a man who admires Scarface/Tony Montana, and has his picture on the wall of his office may say allot about his business ethics. Now I know it impresses you young dumb full of cum young hormone boiling bucks but I think it speaks volumes of what type of business man we have here. In an era of total corruption capitalism gone wild I would recommend removing that picture next time you do a promo for a high end corporations products.
Now THAT is a christmas gift!!!
You lucky bastard. I would have creamed in my panties if I came home to that setup.
Has to be extra sweet with two 24 inch monitors. They got a little carried away with that one.
That is insane to get that from intel for free. This christmas present makes me want to create a blog.
Make sure you get popular then..
Man, that IS an incredible gift from Intel! You must surely have deserved their top of the line system. What really has me in awe are the dual Samsung monitors. Congratulation’s and Merry Christmas Mr. Shoemaker!
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Milo
Oh man, that is a really sweet surprise Christmas gift. I would be telling everyone I knew what a great company Intel was!
A lot of South African bloggers seem to have AMD processor powered machines and they’ll blog and whine about some problem they’re having with getting some game to work, and I’m like, AMD, that’s your problem right there.
I think I bought AMD once in my life – a 486 machine, and never again. Intel offers far superior processor technology. I’m on an Intel Celeron 440 at the moment, and it’s great. Wish I could afford the cutting edge processors but our currency took a bit of a knock this year against the dollar, so I’ll have to wait and see when I can upgrade.
i heard the same things about amd, but my laptop has an AMD and I have had no problems at all.
Omg I think I would’ve had an orgasm if I’d come home to that system! Geez, I’d be excited just to get Photoshop.
P.S. LOVE the Tony Montana poster.
April in Omaha
Lol thats too big of an reaction isn’t it?
wow man, cool gifts this Christmas…
I am feeling jealousy
You should just go with a 50 inch plasma tv and use it as a monitor.
Is this Gravatar application working? Very cool. Just found out about the Gravatar.
yep, your gravatar is working. You look like some butt ugly hoe ass skank getting it doggy style. That I asume was the effect you were looking for.
Is this kind of (abusive) commenter really welcome on ShoeMoney?
wow! hey Intel! i’m a fan too!
merry Christmas shoemoney!
Ok one more computer on their way to you. LOL
WoWoWee!!! awesome system… It is a merry christmas for you!
HOLY SHIT. I do believe you may have just gotten the best gifts out of any top blogger from a BIG company. Wicked stash. And I love how glossy the monitors are as well. Intel owns.
This is the cheapest internet marketing Intel could ask for.
Now I they are just pitting against Mac.
you lucky !@(#&!@)#*!@)# !~!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wow, simply amazing of Intel to do that. Who would have thought Intel reads your blog? haha. Nice pieces, and Merry Christmas.
Yah thats really nice.. Being popular and a fan of Intel gets a fantasy computer..
WOW! That’s really nice on Intel’s part
Congratulations, now we can see double the blogging for double the screen space
Merry Christmas Mr ShoeMoney,
Regards
TeenProBlogger
thats right, 2 screens, we should be getting 2 posts a day
you’re are one lucky bastard shoe.
I’m jealous.
Anyway, merry christmas.
Do top commentators get a piece of the cake too?
LOL .. there’s a sweet idea .. I won’t be too greedy Jeremy .. Did they include any cool stickers like you were expecting … If so I’ll settle for just one of those for my laptop …. and if one of those Samsungs accidentally gets stuck to the back of it don’t worry about it .. just throw it in a box with the sticker.
The Power of Intel is yours
. Amazing setup
Now every blogger will be posting a story about how great some company is and will be holding their breath.
hey shoe, you are really a one lucky guy!!
a big Merry Christmas to SHOE family!!!!
The too large monitors. Me like compact. But that them two are very conveniently
daymmmm thats one sweeet system
Congratulation.. and Merry Christmas..
OMGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG
THAT’S AWESOME, I mean how many blogger out there get to have XMAS PRESENT FROM INTEL!!!!
Bravoooooo~~~ lol
Puts… Muiro Louco!!!
I hate you so muuuuuuuuuuuuuuuch!!
And I Love Intel!
:p
Way to go Intel.
Gee, makes me wonder if they have any extra marketing types that can get my unemployed – offshored fact finding map off the ground at http://www.KeepAmericaAtWork.com
Seriously though, Intel makes great products and they just gave me an idea for a killer machine when I get back on my feet.
Thanks for the uplifting post as I needed it,
Virgil
http://www.KeepAmericaAtWork.com
Amazing! Dreams do come true… I was almost at the point of giving up but now I am refocused and will work harder… Hey INTEL.., I love you too… want my address?
Holy snappers – this thread is quickly moving to the top of the most popular list!!! Intel is gonna LOVE the publicity it’s gonna get em!!
I want a new double screen intel desktop!
Now we have something i common, the Samsung Sync Master, great monitor, as for the Adobe CS3.3 Production Premium Suite,
CS3 is fucking unstable, it crushes all the time, especially on big projects – better save your kind words on this.
I got to thinking how many people were probably running to their blogs to start writing about how much they like Intel, Apple & any other products they could think of in hopes of a care package like this showing up on their doorsteps.
Myself…I just posted about how much I admire Ferrari’s…so we’ll see what happens..(sarcasm no charge!)
Can you think of a better PR move? Wow, incredible. Shows you the power of having a high quality sustaining blog. You’re an inspiration ShoeMoney!
Holy sh** that a nice system you got there!
Wow man that’s friggin’ awesome! Hopefully I’ll bump into you at the Affiliate Summit coming up in January 09.
Have a safe holiday season and Happy New Year!
BTW I’m putting up a blog site right now dedicated to affiliate marketing
hehe
Well, that’s on way to celebrate Christmas.. It’s always amazing to see top dawgs like shoe get rewarded for all their great work.
Stan
Merry christmas!
Now you can play all year until next christmas with those killer gaming machine
Okay now thats an awesome gift! Congrats man. Samsung screends are WILD!!!! I have one too, they are just great.
Ahhh only 2 posts away from being the 2nd most popular post on shoemoney!! Go intel!! LOL!!
very nice gesture by Intel
When did you start getting stuff sent to you? Amazing
I wonder if I blog about how much I love Intel, or their competitors AMD whether I will get a free computer from either of them.
Now that I call a special present for Christmas
This is a very good Christmas present. Sometimes a little criticism to the others may payoff.
Great Stuff from Intel
I love Intel too… hey Intel… I love you.
Gratz! I want a present like that one day. I am gonna start blogging about random companies now j/k.
Intel Please give me something. LOL. Very cool of Intel to gave you a new computer and very nice monitors. Greg Ellison
now put it all back in the boxes and go back to your mac… better.
WOW…that is an immense system. I love the expression on your face in the photos! Kind of the same expression you see on kids when they get what they dreamed of at Christmas! Nice present Shoe, and thoroughly deserved!
Makes me want to build another super computer on steroids.
haha i jealous
enjoy your new system!
haha i jealous
enjoy the new present man!
This is anawesome system!
thts great…..regards from
http://www.ebooksz.biz
It pays to be well known because free stuff just keeps coming
-Mike
Must be nice! JK. This reminds of an episode of Southpark where they were bragging about the Nintendo Wii and how Cartman became so obsessed with it. The guys from Nintendo loved the episode so much that they sent the Southpark staff free Wii’s
I think so this is a reward for your hardwork.keep it up-wishing you a belated happy new year.Thanks.
Very sweet pressie indeed
very sweet pressie indeed man
Nice that is one bad ass setup. I’m an HP guy do you think I could receive some cool stuff like Shoe did?
Thanks
Mr. School Fundraising Ideas
That was really cool. I hope that HP and Solaris will give me High End Unix servers if I continue to blog about them. Haha.
Any chances that I would this ? Really need it badly..
I am so jealous ! I guess santa really does exist, huh ? He doesn’t look like I thought he would, but the gifts he gives are amazing
Nice, I wish I had a dual monitor computer setup. Oh and the scarface poster in the background is a nice touch too.
And why didn’t I get something like that for Christmas?
Wish I got something like that for xmas… Some people have all the luck.
wow, very cool – I am very happy for you.
Now for me to express my fanacticdom of the Mac Pro …..
The Scarface poster is something that all BA’s need to have, and getting a free computer is pretty sweet too.
Holy! Got all that for free? Nice!
wahhh, Apple just released a new Mac Pro(Nehalem), imagine getting that for free.
One can only dream.
Awesome computer!
What a score.
I should think of having friends in Intel too
Will come back for more info later, nice post