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.
I would love to have a blue ray player! And that recipe box sounds amazing!
in my kitchen!
That’s a hard one!!! I think I’d put it either in the kitchen or in the bonus room. If I put it in the kitchen, maybe that Recipe Box program would entice me to start using the kitchen to cook… on the other hand, having it in the bonus room would allow my girls to use it!
Would truly love to put in my classroom for my students to use. Am currently a first year teacher at an at-risk school in the MS Delta region, and am thinking of all enhancements this could make to my classroom. Crossing my fingers!
I blogged about this!
http://abbersflabbersbenabbers.blogspot.com/
cool blog, found it from Kelly’ Korner and thought I would hop on over. Wow, had not heard of this, sounds awesome. Would love to try editing my clients images on this going to keep my fingers crossed. Thanks for the chance at a really cool item.
wherever my wife wants to put it haha
I’d put it in our kitchen-where we are most of the time!
THis is such a great giveaway. I would put this computer in my husband and my room. I would use our current computer for our children.
Ooh ooh ooh! I would put this in my kitchen! I spend MOST of my time there, and it would be great to multitask! Yes thanks so much!!
I’d use it at my desk. We homeschool, so this would be a huge help! Thanks for the giveaway!
my office
I would put it in our office/craftroom. It would be fabulous there!
Thanks!
Just tweeted this Great giveaway!
http://twitter.com/francesstphotog
I work from home so this puppy would be mine all mine. =) Probably would share with my sweet daughter though, just b/c it’s Christmas and all. mollyg33@gmail.com
I would put this in our office area…way up high where no little hands could touch!!
I’d put it right here in the office….after I move this old piece of junk out of the way! :-)
I tweeted! twiiter.com/theivytwines
Oh my goodness is that a beautiful computer. I don’t even love technology all that much but that is a pretty, pretty computer. If I won I would place that sweetheart on MY desk that used to be a kitchen table that I painted ALMOST TURQUOISE!!! I’ll even send you a picute of the desk and computer after it arrives! Yay!
Hmmm… probably in my husband’s man cave. My poor husband has an empty man cave in desperate need of something to put in it. Of course I could always get a thrift store desk and paint it turquoise for that room… ;)
I would put it in the home office I’m decorating to surprise my husband when he returns home from Afghanistan!
i would love to put this in our dining room/kitchen~
WOO HOO!
I would love this computer so we can DVR our favorite shows and watch them when our son goes to bed!
Wahoooooooo!!
I’d definitely put it in my classroom/dining room to replace the dinosaur Dell that we already have!
I would swap out our old computer for this one! Our old monitor bit the dust and we’re borrowing a friend’s right now. I would put it in our computer hutch in our living room. Oh, I would love to win! :)
I am keeping all of my fingers crossed!
I have tweeted about the give away
http://twitter.com/coaches_wife
http://lifeasacoacheswife.blogspot.com
I would LOVE a new computer!!!
Wow! What a great give away!This computer sounds so cool!
I would probably give it to my college student who has a computer that is about to die!!
you know where I’d put this computer if I won it? I’d put it in the one bedroom apartment where a family of six refugees from Burma that I work with live. We got them a crappy old Dell, but it is CRAP. I would LOVE love love to give this to them. In fact, my post on my blog today was about them.
I would put it in my bed–since that’s where I blog!
I would love to have one of these to put just for me to use and not share with my husband. I would love to be able to put this where I could edit all my photos.
I would put this in my sewing room to watch while I quilt.
It took me 15 minutes to make this comment since my computer freezes up and will not move for 5-10 minutes at a time. It also will just randomly reboot itself. It is old and I need a new computer. Thanks for doing this.
I Tweeted!
http://twitter.com/daniellebeloved
I also blogged about, come on a Touchsmart!! I’m going to try all of my chances :)
Thanks so much! Yes yes yes!
http://theivytwines.blogspot.com/2009/12/merry-christmas-giveaways.html
I would love to have this computer!!
Oh my gosh!
We would put it in the office . . . because our really old desktop just died . . . it’s the perfect spot!
PS – SUPER COOL GIVEAWAY!
It would go in my family room!!!! And we would be SO excited. What a giveaway!!!
I would love to put this in my room to use after the baby goes to sleep and finally have some mommy time!
I think I would put it in my classroom…
in the family room so everyone can see its spectacular abilities = )
I blogged about this giveaway! http://luke-and-meg.blogspot.com/2009/12/hp-touchsmart-giveaway.html
I would put it in our living area for the whole family to use! Great giveaway!!
We would definitely be putting it in the office! Right now we only have a laptop that is not exactly high function. One of those “cheapest things we could find at the time” buys. But love the touchsmart!
Tweet: http://twitter.com/ViaTweets
Blog: http://cloudnineandcounting.blogspot.com/2009/12/giveaways-of-glory.html
I would put it in my living room where our computer desk is. We have teenagers so we can’t have one hidden away in a corner… you know how it is?! Thanks!
Ashley
This would go in my office … the one with the sassy red wall! Thank you!
It would go in our playroom-slash-office which is really just a playroom as I’ve chosen to work upstairs mainly now. In fact, our downstairs desktop recently died a death of old age. So we’re without a computer for the boys right now. Boo.
family room. thanks so much for the chance to win this!
I would put this in our home office!!
I blogged about your giveaway!
http://countingto814.blogspot.com/2009/12/248-giveaways-giveaways-and-more.html
I would love to have a desktop computer…. only I have no idea where I would put it! :) Maybe it would be a good excuse to rearrange some furniture in my house! :)
Merry Christmas!
Oh…be still my heart, indeed! I would put the computer in the office my husband will be building for me in the basement, where I will operate our ministry! Thanks for the opportunity! =)
I would put it in my kitchen on husband’s desk since the rest of my family has laptops and I could actually be in the same room with them.
This computer looks awesome! We’d definitely put it in the family room!
What an awesome computer! I will blog about this at http://www.bradyfamilyof4.blogspot.com
Thanks so much!!
I would definitely put this computer in my kitchen for easy recipe finding!!
I swear my Dell is about the crash. A new computer is desperately needed.
I would put it in my bedroom where I do my homework!
I blogged about it too!
http://katieslifejourney.blogspot.com/2009/12/free-computer-yes-you-are-reading-right.html
I want that. I will put it in my house (can’t be more specific since it’s so portable!!!).
I would put it on a wooden desk my husband has refinished in the living room
oh we need a new computer so badly!! We have an ancient mac that’s on it’s last legs. We’d put it in our library. Cool cool giveaway!!
I’d put this computer in my office. It’s time to upgrade :) Thanks!!!!
I blogged about this on my blog:
http://togetherisourfavoriteplacetobe.blogspot.com/
I would put it in the dining room I never use that I have changed into my home office!
It would go in our family room and it would look AWESOME!!!
I’d put it in the kitchen where I can use it whenever I want! :)
I would put it on my antique library table in the office. I recently painted my walls a lovely turquoise color and think it would be so COOL to have a new computer to go in my new funky office! :)
What a great giveaway! :)
WOW! I would love one of these! It looks compact enough that it could go in our living room. I think that’s where I’d put it {though the idea of putting it in my closet for my use ONLY sounds pretty good!}
I would put it on my desk which sits directly across from my husband’s and then I would wait to see what color green his face turned and that would be my new favorite color.
I would give this computer to my grandson. He has autism and the touch screen would be so helpful for him.
I blogged about this:
http://togetherisourfavoriteplacetobe.blogspot.com/
I would put it in my family room for the kids to use…me too!
Jennifer
lvczars@cox.net
I would have to put it on the dining room table because that is where all my “would be in an office” stuff is now! Thanks
Holly
wow!!!! i would love this for crafts and digital scrapbooking!!
Please, Please, Please…Me, Me, Me….I would be so lucky to win one of these! I would put it in my kitchen, so everyone can see!
Oh my lands! I would put this bad boy in my bedroom. I think my little grease monkeys are too sticky for touch screen access. If only I had a closet big enough…
I would place it on our desk (my husbands beat up desk from college) and use it all the time and i would even let my 3 year old use it to learn lots of new things.
Oh my gosh, the recipe box sounds amazing!!! As a newlywed, I am still trying to gather as many recipes as possible and this would help me in the organization process!
Oh wow!!!
We have an 11 year old HP computer that is so old we can’t even upgrade it. We’re still running on Windows 98 (shhh, don’t tell anyone). I’m very thankful for the used laptop I bought from my niece.
Needless to say a new computer would replace the old one in our den/office.
Thanks!
Kristi
I tweeted about it!
http://www.twitter.com/hbarnes82
I can’t imagine how much fun it would be to have this! It would completely revolutionize my office!
I would put this in our TV room…
I would put this on my built in desk in my kitchen. :)
I would put it in the family room and replace this old thing I have now, and hopefully keep the little paws off of it.
I would put this in our tv room
Oh the fun that could be had on a touch screen computer!
Me! Me! Me!! Pick me!!
I would love to win this computer!
Sounds delightful!! We need another computer for our homeschool :). It actually might replace the one we have which has been making some really weird noises…probably not a good sign!
Thanks for the fun giveaway!
I would love to have this computer and I would put it in the playroom so it can be enjoyed by the whole family!
I tweeted too!
http://www.twitter.com/sneakylanier
I would love to win, what a great giveaway!!!
Wow, what an awesome giveaway! I would definitely put it in my kitchen because that seems to be a main hub in our house. Plus, I could definitely see me using the read aloud recipe feature! Thanks!
Kim (placeyourbetz@hotmail.com)
I took the doors off of a closet and made it into my office “alcove” … that skinny computer would fit PERFECTLY.
I would love to win this computer because I am a happy grandma when I can blog or keep in touch with my kids and grandkids.
wow, would so love this!! Think it would go in the library. Thanks!!
I would definitely put it in my family room-but far, far away from a curious 11 month old’s grasp!!
I would give this to my husband who is in Afghanistan right now when he gets home as a welcome home present!!
Karen