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 put it in my baby girl’s room so that I could read your blog during her hour-long nursing marathons in the middle of the night!! Thanks!!
I would love this computer to pieces and place it in at my kitchen desk for all to see and enjoy! Merry Christmas!
I would put it in my bedroom so I could stay up all night and “study” which means end up reading blogs all night. This is an amazing giveaway. Thanks so much!
Ohhh how I have been wanting one of these! We’d put it right in the family room beacuse my 2-year-old LOVES Starfall and other educational websites but can’t work the mouse and seems to think touching the monitor will do. He gets very angry when it doesn’t. :D
My husband and I wanted to buy this computer so bad when it was sale the day after Thanksgiving. But with so many other financial obligation we used our better judgement and did not get. Well much to our sadness, the next week our current computer totally freaked our and won’t let us do anything on it. It always just freezes up!! We could really really use this computer!!
wow what a great computer and giveaway. humm i think i would put it in the living room.
This is GREAT! I would put it in the living room in my little reading nook. Pick me, pick me!
I would put it in my kitchen.Thanks for the giveway.
I tweeted!! http://twitter.com/Tutu1525
Love this give-away, would love this computer! I would put it right smack dab in the middle of my living room, because it’s that pretty. And since I’m single with no kids there would be no fighting over it.
I would give our current computer to my sister and replace ours with the new one! So, in the office/guest room/exercise room. Yes, it is all three:)
I would put that in my kitchen computer area to READ RECIPES TO ME every other day.
That feature alone makes me LOVE it.
What a great giveaway! I am in desperate need of a new computer to get me through my last year of college!
I’d put it in my bathroom – because that’s the only place I could ever really be alone with it….j/k
– it’d go in our kitchen because w/ 4 kids in a 2 bedroom house, that’s the only place that it’d fit & be available for all to enjoy.
I would love to win!! If I won I would put it in my daughter’s old room which has become my gadget room. lol
I tweeted! http://twitter.com/ValerieGail/status/6734896341
I don’t know where I would put it yet. Maybe in the living room mounted to the wall. I think I would just be so ecstatic if I actually won, I would see what it looked like everywhere in the house.
A dream come true! We’d proudly disply this in our living room where the TV used to be! Our TV fizzled last March and we decided to wait until electronics got smart and consolidated like this. It’s worth the wait! Way to go HP! Thanks for bringing the offer to light!
ps… i was drawn to your site by your awesome BooMama graphics..beautiful!
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ok, so I don’t have a computer. I am a 27 year old arkansasn wife who has to take her lap top from work if i want to blog.. sad day I know!
Point being.. I WOULD LOVE a computer of my very own!!
Thanks for posting!
Well, if I really am lucky enough to win this, I would put it on our large end table that is currently being used as a desk, haha!
HOLY SWEET HP-GOODNESS!!! We have ONE computer…shared between FIVE people in the house. Someone’s always needing. Someone’s always on it. It’s an Emachine computer that happens to be A LOT of years old. And so slow that it takes “someone” FOREVER to finish on it. With THREE kiddos needing to do shcool projects…ONE husband trying to complete work projects…and ONE mommy wanting to do blog projects…well…you can guess who gets put on the back burner. WE SOOOO NEED ONE OF THESE BABIES!!!
OMG! I have THAT thrift store desk, painted THAT color! How did that happen? Love HP, always have.
It would go in my bedroom… on my desk. It’s sort of an office nook in the corner of our bedroom. SO. That would be the best place for it. Thanks for the giveaway!
I would replace the old HP computer in the office with this nice flashy one! ;)
I think I would put it in our bedroom. I know we all would love it and the kids would want to be on it all of the time. If it’s in my room I can keep an eye on them! Thank you for hosting such an awesome giveaway and good luck to all entering!
I’d hide it in my room and set up laser beams to sense when some one (other than me) is messin’ with the computer and this big old whoopy/screachy alarm would go off and a cage would drop down and trap the offendee. I bet this computer would help me program all that kind of stuff to happen.
I would put it in my kitchen so I could easily look at recipes on my computer while cooking, and watch a few shows on Hulu while I was in there. Such a cool computer.
I blogged about this giveaway!
http://epictegan.blogspot.com/2009/12/hp-computer-giveaway.html
I tweeted about it!
http://twitter.com/EpicTegan/status/6737719283
I’m crossing my fingers. Me me me!!
I’d have to find an HP TouchSmart Papoose so that I could walk around with it like a newborn baby showing it off to all my friends! “Goo, goo, isn’t it cute! Can we touch?” …Why of course!! ;0)
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I tweeted, entry #2, yay!
http://twitter.com/silvalion
Boy, what a great day to open an email asking if I’d like to try one of these. It reminds me of the smartboards our teachers use. Very cool.
i would probably keep it in my room and give my old comp to my bro since he needs a computer now that he’ll be helping out my mom at home. and then, i’d tape a glittery teal boa around the new HP and take pictures of how fabulous it looks in my pink room.
I would put this awesome new computer in our office! It’s right off the kitchen would be perfect for the ‘recipe read-aloud’ feature! We’re trying to finish up the office re-do so this computer would be the perfect centerpiece! Thanks for the opportunity and Merry Christmas!
I would it this beautiful work of technology genius in my living room so it could be admired by all :)
I would put it in Slovenia where I live.
I would put it in the living room where it would get the most use. How exciting….
I would put it in our spare room/office.
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I would LOVE one…to be placed smack dab in the middle of my room. Thanks!
I would put it in the kitchen so I could use it throughout the day and use the recipe feature as well. Thanks!
I would use it in my den. Thanks and Merry Christmas!
I would so love to win one of these computers. I would definitely hide this away in my little office so that grubby hubby hands wouldn’t muss it! Merry Christmas and thanks for helping host the contest for us all!
I would totally put in my office….except i don’t have an office! Office turned baby room so now I’m floating. I’ll find a great spot once I clean the basement!
Good Luck me.
I would put it in the kitchen
I would put this baby in my kitchen. Up high where my little one cant mash all the keys. I could blog about my baby while he eats. Then he is busy and so am I!
I would put it in the family room or maybe the kitchen. It would be a hard decision.
Oooooo! I might have to put this in the kitchen!
Thanks for the chance!
I would mount it on one of my bedroom walls! Awesome!
Pick me, pick me!
I would loooooove to have this PC. I live in a house with a Mac snob. I’d love to show him that my PC is cooler than his PC. And I would put it in our office so the PC can really show its betterness next to the Mac. PC rules!
I would for sure put it in my office/living room. I have a 6 month old that I’ve taken TONS of pictures of and it would be great to have! Merry Christmas!
I would love this computer, as we don’t currently have a family computer. Thanks!
I would put it in my den!
If I win this HP touch screen, I would give it to my husband. Ever since this computer came out he wanted one, but we just don’t have the savings for it.
i would give it to my “new” teacher daughter to place in her room or in her place where she is staying (she does not have a permanent home yet) to help her with her teaching. She teaches jr high spec. needs children. it would be a blessing!
it would go in my office where all the magic happens! :)
This computer sounds awesome and the recipe box feature would be a huge improvement over the way I do recipes now.
I would love to win this computer for my husband. He loves the latest technology and would have so much fun with it. Thanks!
We would put it in the office, or maybe use as a second TV!
I would put the new HP TouchSmart 600 (with a big red bow on top) on the kitchen counter of my best friend Libby (mama of 3 darlings under 4) whose computer just died and is desperate for a new one, so she could wake up on Christmas morning (or whenever it comes) with a new computer for her family!
WOULD LOVE THIS!!! our computer is about to fall apart!!! thanks for the great givaway!!! sign me up!
I would put it in the upstairs hall, where I can look out the window while I use the computer……..and fold clothes at the same time. Thanks!
I would put it in my office on my thrift store wooden desk.
This awesome machine would go in my den, where all the little hands could have access to it. I can see the neighborhood kids now…
I’d have it on the kitchen table for meal prep information and entertainment, on my bedroom dresser as a second television (since it is nicely sized) at night, and on my desk for the “working” part of the day. It would, however, probably bring on some office angst when I touch the screen there and all I get is a smudge. Touch is Smart.
I blogged about this on my blog!
I blogged about this on my blog: http://eastcoastromanholiday.blogspot.com/
I’d put it in our living room.
I guess it would go in our kitchen because that’s where our desk is at the moment, but I might have to change that if I won something this awesome!!
I would love this!
I’d LOVE one! PLEASE?!
i would put it in my kitchen to replace a very ancient computer that takes forever to do anything.
I’d put it in the kitchen for recipes, music and facebook.
Wow! Awesome giveaway. That would look awesome under my Christmas tree!
I would love this computer. It would definatley go in the bedroom on my desk.
i would put this in our bedroom, which is where our current PC dinosaur is. we all use it, and it really needs to be retired.
A TouchSmart?! Just what I want in my kitchen. My husband and kids might get to use it too!
I’d put in my hallway/office space. I hope I win!
I would love to give this to my sister – her’s crashed and she really needs a new one.
I would absolutely love one of these!! I would love to edit pictures on it!
I would put this blessed computer in my kitchen because that is where my five children do their homework every day. Our current computer spends fully 98% of the time frozen or crashing. This does not lend to happy children…. “Mom! My report is due in the morning and the computer isn’t working AGAIN!” Cross your fingers for me (and my kids) that I’ll win! Julie
I would put it in our family room.
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I would put it in my bedroom.
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In the sanctuary of my bedroom where I can blog about my foster/adoptive experiences to maintain my sanity and connect with other grown-ups who know the drill!!!!
If I win (crossing my finger) I would put it in the living room so everyone in the family can use it.
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I blogged http://luvtojoingiveaways.blogspot.com/2009/12/win-hp-touchsmart-600-touchscreen.html
ummmmm, let me think…….no, I already know! I would put this prized pearl, in my family room so the whole famlia could enjoy!
I would put this in our computer/sewing/treadmill room (no, the room isn’t that big, it’s just crammed with all that stuff). Thanks for doing the giveaway!
I would put that computer in our office/craft room. My husband could use it for his interior design, it would be PERFECT since we could never afford a new computer!
I would put the computer in my kitchen!
I would plop it on top of my covers, and I would stay in bed….. all day….
and when I have no choice to get out of bed because I am hungry, it’s coming to the kitchen! (online recipes)
I would put this in our office/ nursery for my husband to use for his classes. Such a nice giveaway!!!
So cool. I would just *love* it!
Family Room FOR SHO! cuz like I’d really be able to keep the kids from using it!!
I would put it on my papaws desk that is now mine. i looks funny to have electronics on it because its so old but I love using something everyday that meant so much to him.
Woull love to win this as a family gift this Christmas!
I would absolutely love one of these!☺
I would put it in my office. And get rid of my not so nice, I shut off on my own, and take my sweet time starting dinosaur of a computer:)
kitchen/dining area, where everyone usually is anyhow! of course the children would never let me get away w/ not sharing something this awesome. then, every morning when they’re off to school, i could sip my coffee and pretend it really is All mine. HP rocks! what an incredible giveaway!