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.
That would definitely go in the living room, where we would have peace and quiet to read and work on photo’s!
I would put this on our kitchen bar where it could be easily accessed by everyone and we could enjoy pandora music all day!
I would put this in my kitchen, it is the center hub of our household. Thanks for the chance to win!!
Oh my gosh this looks amazing! I would LOVE to have one of these! :)
I would love to place this computer on my kitchen counter! I am loving this!!!
Merry Christmas!
If I won this would be a gift for my 14 year old daughter and go in her room.
I’d put it in my office!
gemitan at aol dot com
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I REALLY REALLY WANT THIS BABY!!!
I would put it in my game room.
reberd(at)yahoo(dot)com
hey i would put in our new family room/ playroom we are getting for xmas!
I’d put it on my shelf beside my bed!
awesome!
I would love one!
I would put it in my kitchen! :)
IN THE LIVING ROOM ON MY ROLL TOP DESK! YES MAMA, THAT WHERE I’D PUT IT!
Wow! Love it! I’d put it on the built in desk next to my kitchen!
This would definetly be put in my room so only mama can play lol!
I would put it in my guest bedroom to replace our old, slow computer. Thanks!
I would put it in our office area by the playroom!!
I would put this in my den. I like to work and watch TV at the same time!!
I would put it in my kitchen.. Love it!! so high tech and savy!!!
As slim and as easy to use as it looks I would put this in my Bedroom. Definitely no messy little fingers on this one. I would love to surprise my husband with one of these.
In the family room, I suppose, although in my closet sounds much better!
New computers rock! I would so use this in my kitchen!
Oooh what fun! I’m getting married and moving soon and this would go into MY room! (future new hubs gets 1/2 of the garage for HIS room!) Plus, he dropper, spiller, messer so totally, MY room!! HA! :)
I’d put it in my bedroom where it would be safe lol :).
If I were to win, I would give it to my mom, so she would get to pick where to put it. She would probably put it in her living room.
I would put that baby in the kitchen- the heart of the action in our home!
I would love one of these in our family room. We could all enjoy it!
I would put this computer in my bedroom…and never come out! HA. Thanks for the chance to win.
I would put it in our family room!!! I’m sure all three daughters, my husband, and I would fight over it, but so what???
This would go in our future study (once I move out of my in-law’s basement!) and will replace the two 8 year old computers that are slowly dying. As in they are dying, and are very, very slow! My husband would love this!
How cool! We would put it in our home office so the whole family could use it. It looks like so much fun.
WOW! GREEEAAATTTT giveaway! Oh my goodness, I REALLY want to win!!!! I am in need of an upgrade adn several in my office have mounted screens for reviewing contracts with clients and listing presentations and I would be SOOOO excited to win this!! Plua I could give my laptop away to someone I have in mind that doesn’t do much on a computer but would be completely happy with my Dell! Pick me! Pick me! Pick Me! And oh…one more thing…pleeeaassse pick me!
I would put it in our dining room/office/craft room. It sounds like it’s a big room but it’s really not. We just squeeze a lot into that little space!
This would make an awesome Christmas present for my family!
I tweeted this Giveaway! @rsj2000mrs
http://twitter.com/rsj2000mrs/statuses/6517932608
I’d love to put it in our kids’ school room! :)
Would love love love to to have this. My main computer in the family room is on it’s last leg. Love my HP printer and would love to have this computer to go with it.
For now, I’d put it in our guest room, I think. Later, I might transition it to our closet/aka known as my “office” for writing.
I would LOVE a new computer!! Not one, but 2 Dells crashed for me this year! I was saving to buy a new one & then a couple of weeks ago someone broke in my car causing over $2,000 of damage. Needless to say, my fund is nil for now!
I sure don’t have much room, but I bet we could find somewhere to put it! The kitchen, perhaps?! I would love to be able to have recipes right there on the computer when I need them.
I’d maybe put this in my kitchen…and I just MIGHT share it :) .
Rebecca
therosses@comcast.net
In mommas room where no one else can touch it!!
I have a lovely desk in the family room that NEEDS a new computer on it and this one seems so nifty.
wow, this would be great to win! we could really use a desktop at our house!! the laptops are very accessible to little fingers! :)
It’d go in our bedroom!
Would love to win this awesome computer give away! Im in need of a new computer but can not afford in because I am in college! Im on the computer sooo much everyday doing stuff for school and everything else!
I would put mine in the kitchen!
I would totally love to win this TouchSmart 600 PC. It is SWEET!!
Oooh, I would love one of these! Mine would totally go on a new desk that I buy for myself. :-)
THANKS!!
We are building a new house and are in the market for a new computer for the computer desk. It is in a hallway nook near our den. Sounds like a great computer… I’m sure I would have to share!
Thanks so much for the opportunity to win!
kdmccrary@aol.com
I would love to have this in my kitchen with that awesome read out loud recipe feature….genius!
Hmmm… Not exactly sure where I would put it, but let me assure you – we would find a place!
happy touchsmarting indeed! we have been saving for a computer for our kids…we homeschool and would truly benefit from this awesome computer! :) thanks so much for the opportunity HP and boomama :)
I would put it in my bedroom on my desk – and maybe let the kids use it every once in awhile :)
I would so put this in the bed room. Or the living room…. or… yeah, bedroom. Then I could selflessly watch TV in bed. While nursing, I mean I NEED it, right?
This is a shot in the dark, but enter me! I could really use a new computer to do my kindergarten planning. Thanks! :)
I would put this computer in my lap and USE it all the time! What a great computer!! YOU HAD ME AT TOUCHSMART! :)
I’d put it in the office on the desk, since my laptop goes by my bed!
I WOULD PUT THIS IN MY KITCHEN, AND BOY WOULD IT LOOK GOOD. I COULD REALLY USE IT WHEN COOKING AND TO HELP THE KIDS WITH HOMEWORK.
Even though I would LOVE to put this next to my bed LOL it would go in the study on my huge teacher’s desk! Thanks!
I would love to win!
What a great giveaway!!
I would put it in my office!
I would put in my family room to share with my family!
Wow! Looks like a great computer. I would love to win this. My computer is ancient and so slow for all my digital scrapbooking and designing.
I probably would have put this in the office replacing our old computer but it is too nice to put back there. I would put it in the living room!
I would put that bad boy in the family room where my prehistoric Dell desktop now sits…
I’d put it in the kitchen to make it easier for me to whip up some Pioneer Woman dishes.
I would so love to put this on my turquoise desk (if I had one). My second choice would be on the empty wall in our kitchen/dining room. My husband uses the kitchen table anyways to study so it would be perfect.
I want to win so make it happen.
Ours would go in our bedroom to replace our computer that is on it’s last leg.
I would put it in my new home office (the guest bedroom:)) that I’m using for my new stationary business. Oh and up high enough that an 8 month old who pulls up can’t reach.
WOW! Maybe I’d put it in the kitchen/diningroom so I could have it read to me while i cook… I can’t tell you how many sticky fingerprints I’ve wiped off my laptop because I’ve scrolled through a recipe while cooking.
I would put this computer, hmmm, where would I put it??? I might put it in the kitchen, so using the recipe box would come in handy.
I would put it on a shrine right out in the living room so everyone can see the glorious computer I won from an awesome Blogher!
wowsers. you lucky girl! thos look awesome!
Oh my. I would put it in the office. And I’d buy a new desk! (Or an old desk & spray paint!)
I would LOVE to have this computer! I have an 11 son who has autism, and HE would absolutely LOVE it! He could do his homework a lot easier and we could put it in the living room so the whole family could use it, also.
WHAT AN AWESOME CHRISTMAS GIVEAWAY! :-)
I would definitely put it in my bedroom!!
Definitely in my office, door locked and bolted!
I would put it on my desk across from my bed, where I would sit with wireless keyboard and the remote and watch lots and lots of Netflix and Hulu. Then, for a more tactile experience, I’d sit at the desk and get my Minority Report on.
I CAN NOT BELIEVE YALL ARE DOING THIS!!
All I can say is that I would make a room especially and JUST FOR this baby!! All I can say is PLEASE PLEASE OH PLEASE!!
I tweeted about it!!
http://twitter.com/ashleegladson
I blogged about it!
http://ashleeinaction.blogspot.com/2009/12/giveaway.html
I really love this computer. It would be great in my kitchen as a tv/computer!
I am So Blogging about this!
I would put it in my formal living room/office and it would look so nice on my new desk! :-)
Family Room
What a great giveaway! Thanks!!
jessicavinson@bellsouth.net
We only have a work computer, and I’m trying to get my MBA, but it’s been difficult, because I don’t have a personal computer to use, so I would love to have a computer for school and other personal use.
hmmm…. i’m thinking i’d put it in my kitchen. i’d mount it on the wall above the counter so that i could watch tv while i cook. hey, that would get me to cook more!
or maybe the bathroom!! that would be a great place for it too.
although i do like your suggestion of putting it in my closet where only i use it!
oh the choices!
We have a desk close to the kitchen that would just love to house this beautiful computer.
we so need one for our new den!!
I tweeted about the giveaway…Win an HP TouchSmart Computer!! FIVE different blogs are giving them away! http://lnk.nu/blogher.com/13r0
Terrific give away!!! Thanks!
Oh, I’d certainly put a new computer in our family room/man cave/soon-to-be playroom. Each night after dinner we retreat to this multi-purpose room!
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