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 that lovely thing in the kitchen and watch the kids while they are on the internet. I hope I win!
I would love to have this computer anywhere in our old farm house it wants to be. We would so totally love to have a brand new fancy computer!
I would put it on the computer desk in the family room…..so all could use it! we would have to have a timer by it to prevent fights though….lol
wendym at cableone dot net
I will put it in my dining room, aka scrapbook room. It will be perfect for editing the thousands of picures I need to print.
We would definitely put this in our homeschool classroom!
It would go on a desk that was my husband’s grandfather’s – and said desk could use a coat of paint! it would be tempting to hang it right on the wall with the keyboard on an end table. :)
I tweeted it this post – http://twitter.com/JendisJournal/statuses/6848522398
I would place this in the living room so i could keep an eye on my boys and their computers activites.
Well of course I would love to win one of these pcs!!!!
I’d like to say I’d have it in my kitchen because the recipe feature is so cool, but, who am I kidding? It’ll be in the playroom because the kids need a new computer and this sounds like a wonderful one for them.
I would put it in the kitchen on my desk.
Tweeted it: @justprecious http://twitter.com/justprecious/status/6848932605
WOW! Thank you- and HP for this awesome opportunity! This would be such an awesome blessing for our family. I would put it on our desk in our bedroom.
I would put this in our home office space. It is a beautiful machine. Thanks for hosting this giveaway on the blog.
I think we’d mount on the wall of our kitchen, on the far end, away from wet and food areas and where my oldest could use it.
Would love this! I’m a former HP employee and their products have always been what I love!
I WOULD DEFINETLY PUT MY NEW HP COMPUTER IN MY DEN ON MY DESK WHERE I WOULD SEE IT AND USE IT THE MOST!
I’d put it in the family room for all of us to enjoy – and wall mount it to gain some valuable desktop space!
Iwould love, love, love this!! I would have to put it in my bedroom – where my desk is- that way, preventing the kiddos from getting at it-lol!!
Wow amazing what well they come up with next!
Katie
eklaramore@gmail.com
Let’s see, I would put it on my desk…I so need a new computer my computer is dying bless it’s heart..lol I’m seeking to start up a business and this would be a great access to it. The features alone are Awesome just as the sleek design. Love it!
Thanks for the opportunity!
I would buy a nice desk to add to my room and store it there . Bless my old computers heart…lol it’s dying! This would be so great for me and my family!
Thanks for the chance!
Sorry it took twice! It stated that the first one didn’t take…sorry!
This would be wonderful for our kids to keep in touch with their grandparents when we move overseas next month.
I just blogged about this offer: http://noams-world.blogspot.com/2009_12_01_archive.html#3304047565313041978
I just tweeted about this: http://twitter.com/joshg99
I would put it in the kitchen for the whole family to use! It would be awesome!
OOOh, this would look so nice down here in my basement studio…..on the wall across from the work table, excellent!
This would be so great to have!
I would put it on our desk in the living room because that HP TouchSmart 600 is beautiful!
If I won this computer, I would set it up in my living room so everyone could have access to it.
Well here’s the deal…My husband is possibly the HARDEST person to shop for! Everything he wants is way out of price range, and I think that if he came home from work one day to find something as cool as that computer waiting for him he would FLIP out! Which would inturn bring me incredible satisfaction! :) I love my husband more than words can express and I would love to be able to give him something he would enjoy for a LONG time! Pick me, Pick me! ;)
If I win this computer I would place it in a mini mobile stand so it can move it around freely on my wood floor whenever and wherever I need it. I can search for recipes in the kitchen, play games in the living room, pretty much do anything wherever I’d please !
Please pick me
If I won this; it would go in my craft/office room and it would replace the slow infected puter that I have not that needs replacing. What perfect timing for this giveaway!
I would put it in our dining room for all to see!
I would put this gem on MY desk and I would spend copious amounts of time blogging.
I soooo need this wonderful computer!
Thanks for offering it.
What an awesome giveaway! We’d love to try this computer out.
I’d put it in the living room!
angleicka AT gmail DOT com
Oh, in my tiny cabin, I’d have to place it front and center – right where the FedEx and UPS guys knock and wave every day! :o) (((What a gorgeous screen!)))
If I won this awesome computer I would put it on my little computer desk. That is if it isn’t too big too fit there!!
If I had this computer….I would put it in the kitchen/dining room when I am working there. I would put it in my sewing room when I was working in there. It would move into my office when I was there and maybe sometimes on the patio when I was working out there. I guess it would help me in so many ways and in so many areas, I would just move it as needed. Wish me luck! Thanks
I would love to get this as a Christmas gift this year and it would go in my bedroom so I could snuggle with it.
I would put it in the living room, the kids computer died and I know this would be perfect for them. Well and me. I could have it read me recipes while I’m in the kitchen?! Saves me from having to find a crayon (since of course all the pens go missing when I need to jot something down) and write the recipe out in short hand! Then just to try and figure out what I meant by all the short hand! LOL
Thanks for offering this! Good luck to all! and Merry Christmas!
http://cluttertheedges.blogspot.com/2009/12/5-chances-to-win-hp-touchsmart-600-pc.html
I blogged about it too!
I would set it up in our family room in the area I like to call our 24:7 book cafe… a distressed hand painted black bookshelf… It’s our little area in the house that holds our books and photo albums… Merry… Ho..Ho..Ho…
I would have to go out and buy a desk to put it on, as currently the only furniture I have is my bed, and I don’t think it would balance on the mattress particularly well, with my cats running all over!
Where would I not put it? The apartment I moved out of last year, after my computer got stolen for the SECOND time within 4 months. Meanest thing you can possibly do to a nerd!
Ohhh….it is so pretty I would have to have it in the kitchen which is the “hub” of our home!
I would love to win this and give it to my husband. He works so hard for our family and I know that he has been itching to get a new computer. Thanks.
At least until we could come up with a good place for it, it would be in my room
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tweet http://twitter.com/vlbsweeps/status/6862182486
I would put it in my living room and use it for watching movies!
Our family would benefit in so many ways by having a brand new computer. Our daughter would love the touch screen!
I would put this in my living room so all could enjoy!
This would be in my bedroom to make sure none of my 32 grandchildren can get to it.
When I am alone it would come out.
Merry Christmas to you and yours.
I blogged about the contest here:
http://buttonbuttonwhosgotthbutton.blogspot.com/
It would go in the family room where my kids would be able to use it also.
I would put this in my home office i would have to buy a seperate desk and we would designate this as the family computer
I’d put it in our Homeschool Room – after a proper burial for the existing laptop that’s days away from it’s slow painful demise! My kids would love to use it for school!!
Thanks!!
I would put it in my tiny living room so everyone can enjoy using it and I can monitor
what my little darlings are doing online.
I would put it in my computer room so I can read boo mama blogs, DAILY!
I would put it on my desk in the living room since that is where I do all of my work. Of course the desk would have doors on it to close it…so no one else can touch it but me!!
I think I would put it in our office, but then I’d be expected to share it. Maybe in my craft room.
I would put it in my living room, that way it could be shared, but it would look nice in my kitchen…
I would put it in my kitchen so everyone could see its beauty!
Beautiful!! I would put it in my little office!
I would put this amazing computer off to the side in my kitchen. That way I can surf or work while I am cooking. I can’t get over all the things this computer does!
Pick me!! We could sure use a new one!!
nataliekat at hotmail dot com
Wow! This looks like a great computer to use to follow blogs! I hope I win!
I would put it on our built-in desk in the bedroom. My techno-geek husband would be over the moon!
I would put it in my bedroom. Our place is pretty small so that would be the best fit!
I would put in my bedroom.
Thanks!
I’d love to win! I’d probably put in in our dining room, where I tend to spend the bulk of my time. Thanks for the giveaway.
I Tweeted! http://twitter.com/Kris_WUHSMom/status/6870431429
I blogged about it! http://www.weirdunsocializedhomeschoolers.com/2009/12/what-giveaway.html
I would absolutely put it in the living room which luckily is open to our kitchen — that way I could cook and watch what the kids are doing on the computer at the same time.
If I win this, I’d put it right here on my desk where I get to look out at the sunrise each morning and watch traffic and also see my lovely backyard :)
The closet is sounding good too since I have very small kids whose fingers go places! lol
Tweet
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I blog here
http://jamericanspice.wordpress.com/2009/12/20/win-a-new-hp-touchsmart-computer/
I would love to use this computer for myself….. and all of my pictures, scrapbooking, recipes, and everyday life. Thanks for the opportunity. What a joyous season!!
I would put it in our craft/husband’s work/play/ laundry room. ;) Now that’s multi functional. ;) tee hee
I would put it on the wall of our livingroom so we can surf the Net and watch movies!!
I would put it in the living room, so that I can do my homework while being central to everything I need.
i’m thinking that this would fit perfectly in my kitchen!
bleu_butterfly @ comcast dot net
I would put it in my home office. Thanks for the opportunity!
I would put the TouchSmart 600 in our formal dining room (which we refer to as the computer room) if I won. ;)
I would put it in the family room : )
I tweeted – http://twitter.com/deanna_j/status/6873323280
I blogged about the contest – http://www.winwithdeanna.com/blog-contests/win-a-hp-touchsmart-600-pc-at-boomama
I would put it on the desk in our playroom where we currently have a 5-year old pc that has a 10-year old monitor. Let’s just say that we could use some updated technology in our house. We would LOVE this!!
I’d put it in my family room…Choose me!!
I’d place it in my office.
I suppose I would put it in my office but I would almost feel bad about leaving it’s pretty self in there!! (P.S. I love your thrift store desk!!)
Tweet! http://twitter.com/ktkatherine/status/6875396617
I would place this in the office!! Or at least that is what I tell my husband, I will probably keep it safe and hidden in my scrapbook area!! This would be a wonderful Christmas surprise!!
I would keep it on my bedside table, a table I rescued from bulk night, so I could write down my dreams and any ideas I get in the night and work on writing my children’s books on it.
i would like to say that i’d put it in mommy’s closet so DADDY can’t touch it, but it would probably go in the living room to share…this is an awesome give away
and i just twittered about it with a link, yay me
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