This is a compensated review by BlogHer and HP.
A few weeks ago I got an email asking if I’d be interested in reviewing a new HP TouchSmart 600 computer. And yes, I was interested, because I am a nerd and always terribly entertained by anything that plugs in and has a screen, but since I’d never seen the TouchSmart before, I had a mental image of a big, clunky desktop coming into the house. Besides that, we haven’t owned a PC in about ten years, and part of me wondered if accepting the HP was some unforgivable act of Mac betrayal.
But then I remembered the 10 year-old Mac desktop in my office (that, bless its heart, can’t run more than two applications at a time before it starts to wheeze), and I got over my reservations. BRING ON THE HP.
The new TouchSmart arrived a few days later, and y’all, I cannot tell you how impressed we have been by this computer. We love it. It looks great (do you see how skinny it is?), and when David was setting it up, I actually asked him where the rest of it was. It’s essentially the same size as a flat-screen TV. In fact, it can work as a TV – you just plug in your cable and you’re good to go. It can also work as a DVR (CAN I GET AN AMEN?) or a BluRay movie player. There’s even a remote. Be still my heart.
And I wish y’all could have seen my husband’s reaction when he realized that you can mount the TouchSmart on the wall. Suffice it to say that his eyes lit up and then glazed over and I thought for a brief moment that he might need to sit down and put his head between his knees.
We started using the TouchSmart approximately 53 seconds after we set it up, and while I didn’t know how much I’d use all the bells and whistles in our day-to-day routine, I have to say that the touchscreen features are actually my very favorite part. Besides the fact that it makes me feel like Tom Cruise in “Minority Report” when I move my finger around the screen and resize pictures and create collages and pretend like I’m some sort of technological wizard, it’s just so EASY. I can write notes, save recipes, browse the web, play a movie via our Netflix account, laugh at something on Hulu, listen to my Pandora playlist, edit photos and so much more – all without touching a keyboard or a mouse. The computer HAS a keyboard and a mouse, of course (they’re wireless!), and you can use them with any of the TouchSmart applications – but once you get the hang of the touchscreen, it’s oh-so-convenient and fun.
I really could go on and on – about how Alex loves it, about how the touchscreen is COMPLETELY intuitive for a child, about how I adore the Recipe Box feature that lets me add any recipe I happen to run across on the web and will even READ THE RECIPE OUT LOUD TO ME while I cook. But I’m going to quit talking now because we need to get this giveaway started. I think it’s time.
So.
If you’d like to win an HP TouchSmart 600 computer, leave a comment below and tell me where you’d put the computer if you won. Family room? Office? Playroom? Kitchen? Inside Mama’s closet where NO ONE ELSE CAN TOUCH IT? On top of a thrift store desk that you overhauled with turquoise spray paint?
Or, if you’d like, you can leave a comment with a link to a post about the HP on your blog.
And whatever you do, please make sure that your email address is correct.
This contest will begin December 9th and end December 24th.
Before I forget:
1) If you’d like more information about this computer, just click on over to HP’s official site.
2) Rules!
• No duplicate comments.
• You may receive an additional entry by linking on Twitter and leaving a link in the comments.
• You may receive an additional entry by blogging about this contest and leaving a link in the comments.
• This giveaway is open to US Residents, aged 18 and older (I’m so sorry, Canada).
• Winners will be selected via random draw, and will notified by e-mail.
• You have 48 hours to get back to me; otherwise a new winner will be selected.
• Please see the official rules here: Official Rules.
The winner will be selected using random.org.
Also, there are four other bloggers giving away the HP TouchSmart 600 (that means there are five free computers up for grabs, people), so check out the BlogHer.com special offers page for links to their sites. You can enter to win on all five blogs.
Happy TouchSmarting, everybody!
Thursday 12/10 at 8:40pm – comments seem to be working just fine again. Thanks for your patience!
This giveaway is now closed.
We would totally put it in the living room! Fingers Crossed!
I would put this on our thrifted and gifted desk in our so called “dining room” of our tiny apartment. It’d look so cute next to my vase of peacock feathers.
This is the most amazing giveaway I’ve ever seen!!!! So very awesome!!!
I would put this computer in my parents house in any room they choose, because they need one and don’t have one!!! Great giveaway!
Oooh… pretty! I’d put this in our family room and boot the aging computer we have in there to my classroom!
I’m going with the in my closet where no once could touch it. Well…actually if my kids are encouraged to touch the screen and I wouldn’t be yelling “Don’t touch the screen!” all day, maybe I’d let them use it here and there.
This little jewel would go on the desk where the archaic computer currently sits.
P.S. I tweeted about this giveaway also!
http://twitter.com/hmramey
Oh what a Merry Christmas it would be!!!
i would love to have this computer to give to my husband as a christmas gift! he does a lot of photoshop stuff and this would be perfect for him!
http://twitter.com/itsmelaniew Tweeted!
I would probably put it in the office to replace our old computer. Looks pretty fancy!
Wow, that’s a hard question! I could use it in just about every room, but I’d probably keep it in my soon-to-be living room. We’re redoing our old “hang out” room to turn it into a formal living room (it’s much bigger than our old living room!) I guess we’re growing up ;-) But there are lots of corners, nooks, and crannies that I could put it in in that room, and I think it would look great!
i would put it in my kitchen!!
thanks, boo, for this fantastic giveaway!!!!
I also tweeted about the giveaway!!
http://twitter.com/HLrobertson/status/6511149422
I would put on in Our office. My husband is a Photographer and t would look great on our desk
Holy Crow! I would put this beauty in my kitchen…martha style! What a fabulous giveaway!
Well, since we are currently using half of a laptop for our computer, this would be GREAT!! Our laptop doesn’t have a top…just a lap I guess! hehe
This would be awesome to have at our house.
So cool! I would love to win this!
If I won this I would find somewhere in our front room to put it close to the kitchen because HELLO it READS RECIPES?!
In our loft/school room where I’d share it with my five year old for school!!!
I would put this little charmer in the family room so that I could read my favorite blogs in the same room where hubby watches ESPN!!
I live in a 700sq foot condo, so I don’t have too many choices! But I would put this amazing computer in my sunroom!
It would go on my pitiful 17 year old card table that acts as a desk, but with that computer on it, the card table would not seem nearly as pitiful.
This is such an amazing giveaway & I would love to win this for my family!
I would put it in our living room/family room/office/dining room :)
Ok maybe its not all of those but the main room in our apartment is where our computer currently is and will continue to be! UNtil we get a nice big house filled with children and an office :)
I’d probably have to fight my husband for it but it would end up in my study.
What an amazing giveaway! Somebody will be very blessed!
I would put this beauty on the built in desk right off my kitchen. I am always in the kitchen, so it would be close by where Mama could keep a watchful eye on it!
I would put it in my family room where we all hang out together! It looks so cool!
What a wonderful give away. I have HP products in my home and they are the best. They just get better and better. This computer is awesome.
I tweeted: http://twitter.com/mommy2charli/status/6511227705
I would put it in the living room!
I would put this in my new house in my new empty basement where we desperately need an awesome computer like this!!!
This computer sounds amazing. I think I would put it in my kitchen the recipe app sounds awesome!! and a TV would be nice in the kitchen too!!
I will definitely put it in my office!
I would put it in the kitchen/desk area so I could use this recipe feature Kelly at Kelly’s Korner was talking about!
Pick Me!!
This baby is going in my scrapbook room!!
Thanks to 2 precious little angels, my current computer is barely hanging on right now! Our living room would look so cool with a new computer!
This baby would go in our bonus room which triples as an office/entertainment room/playroom.
Great giveaway. We would love to have that awesome computer. Thanks for the chance to win!
I would put this lovely computer in my sun room!
I would have it in my kitchen- nice and central and where I can use it all the time. Right now our big old desktop is in the basement and I would sooooo love this. What a blessing it would be!
In our bedroom away from little fingers that could touch it!
Thanks!
Angela
Queen Bee in the Kitchen
I would totally put this in our office. My laptop is THIS close to death so it would be a huge blessing!
I would put this in my car if possible! But it would probably work better in my office.
I would put this little gem right in my kitchen right next to my phone. It would be an awesome win. . .
My son is 3 years old and has autism. I can’t be on my computer without him climbing all over me to play with it. He would go bonkers if he had his own!
I would love to win this fancy pants computer…Please pick me..pretty please!
I would put it in my bedroom so I could read blogs at night when I can’t sleep!
building a new office for myself in our basement….and the touchsmart has it’s very own space to call home as soon as we are randomly picked!!! :)
awesome!
I tweeted! http://twitter.com/janicejohnt
I would put this computer in my kitchen where it would be easily accessible for the whole family!!
I would love to win a new computer because my current computer is an old laptop I got as a hand-me-down from my husband and it is slowly falling apart…and I think I’d put it in our school room…or maybe in our living room…!
It would find its home on the kitchen desk for the whole family to enjoy
I would love this computer. It would be a great gift for my husband.
If I won this computer I would put it in our office! This would be great for my little one to start using and learning!
I would put it in my computer room
awesome giveaway! Thanks for the opportunity!
I would LOVE a new computer to replace our ancient Gateway, which is constantly crashing and is soooooo slow!!
Please let me win, please let me win!
I would put it in my office/bonus room–this would be great!
This beauty of a machine would go on the desk in my kitchen, so that I could take full advantage of that awesome Recipe Box program. Be still my beating heart!
I adore your office set up!! That computer looks great, I’d put it in our spare bedroom/ home office !!
I’m laughing about the mama’s closet location, very tempting though. :)
I’d say it would more than likely end up in the living room if we were lucky enough to win it!
Ooh, I’d hide that puppy in my glorious master bathroom so I could watch my fav shows in the tub while Big Daddy took care of the children. Sigh…..
What an attractive PC! I would put it in the office to replace the current one from oh about 12 years ago…
my husband graduates from law school in the spring and is trying to go out on his own once he passes the bar. he’s desperate for a new computer and his start-up costs continue to grow. this would help us SO much!!
I would most def. put this computer where no one else could use!!! =) I might share every once in a while!!
I blogged too!
http://rameyrandom-ness.blogspot.com/2009/12/new-computer.html
I would put this wonderful work of wonder in our family computer room and stand back to hear the yells of joy from our 3 boys. They would be so thrilled to not have to do homework on the ancient desktop we have that sometimes has half a screen, and sometimes has a whole screen. I keep the computer in an old hutch that used to house my Christmas dishes. Sometimes you do what you gotta do.(the christmas dishes are in storage.)
I’d put it in my sewing studio/work room. Of course then I’d invite my kids in to marvel at it’s awesomeness, but they’ll have to get in line behind me!
I actually have a thrift store desk that I plan to paint pink, but I do have turquoise walls!!
Karen G.
http://kopkies.blogspot.com/2009/12/brand-new-computer.html
I posted it on my blog and linked to you
I would put this in our computer room, right off the kitchen. We spend a good bit of time in there, and even decided this year to put the Christmas tree in that room. What a great Christmas gift this computer would be!!
It would somehow go in our office
This sweet little baby would go in my home office and my sons would inherit my Dell that is about to poop out any day now. Thanks so much!
I would put mine on my kitchen counter. I want to learn to cook more this next year to save my family money. Having it in there would allow me to more easily get to recipes.
I’d put it in either the kitchen or my bedroom.
I am constantly having to share my laptop with three other kids, so this would be perfect. Maybe I could keep this one, and let the kids have the used laptop. Shhhhhh..
Oh, and I would put it in my office, and lock the door so that the kids can’t get in there!
It would totally go in the kitchen to entertain me during meal prep!!
i tweeted about this fabulous giveaway!!!
http://twitter.com/anrettke
Hmmmm…I’d have to buy a new desk, spray paint it turquoise, and put it in the living room!
Oh my!!!!!!!! This would go in our bedroom, sequestered away from sticky little fingers. :)
Blogged about it! http://abbersflabbersbenabbers.blogspot.com/
Hmmmm….either it will go on my desk in MY room. Or downstairs in the livingroom/computer/media room.
It would be in the family room of course!
I would use this for our office! We have a computer in there, but it’s old and would be nice to have an updated one! Thanks
Pick me! I’d put it in my family room!!!
What a great computer! In our current house, I would probably put it in our kitchen. We have a great countertop bar area that would work great for a computer like this. That way, my son could use it in plain view, I could try out the recipe functions, and my husband could hang out with me while I cook dinner while he does his grad school homework!!!
I would love to win this! I know just where I would put it!
I tweeted about this great giveaway!
@Denise0480
Oh my gosh- what an amazing giveaway!!!!
I would put this in my kitchen for the whole family to use!!!
I would put the new computer in my mothers family room as a gift since she never gets anything for herself and deserves the world :) Happy Holidays
I would of course put it in our living room for all to enjoy :)
This computer sounds so awesome!
karina@ussery.net
In my living room!
My husband has always owned a rebuilt computer and in June it went kaput. I would love to put the new computer on his desk!
Thanks for the giveaway!
Here is my blog post….
http://retellingsofapw.blogspot.com/2009/12/awesome-giveaway-again.html