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.
what a blessing this would be to our family. Merry Christmas
I would put this in my bedroom. What an awsome giveaway.
I would LOVE to have a new computer. What a fantastic Christmas present this will be for some lucky family! Thanks for the opportunity!
I would put this in my kitchen if I won it. I like to look up recipes. Thanks.
I would put it in my room! Sweetness!!
I so totally need to win this before my desktop gives out on me.
I would set it up in my den where the TV is. I have a clunky desktop in my office and always wish I could compute while watching the big den tv!
Please enter me in! This is the computer of my dreams! Have a wonderful Holiday!
-Ruth Ann
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In the family room! Yes!
Merry Christmas! What a fun gift for you to give away. If I won this I would put it in my kitchen!
I would put it in my bedroom. (right on top of the card table we are currently using for a desk. Mybe I should be trying to win a desk, but I really want the computer!)
Thanks!
I would put this divine computer in my family room right here on my very own thrift store desk–not painted turquoise.
I would put it in our our home “office” and kick the Dell off the desk!
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It would go everywhere I went :)
I would definitely put this in our office/playroom. My son loves playing any kind of thinking/strategic game online so I have to “fight” him over the computer. He would adore something like this!
I would put the computer in my brother’s house–their computer just died and they don’t have the funds to buy a new one right now. I need them to be able to send me pictures of my cutie patootie nephew and nieces!!
I would love this. I love blogging for our family and I would put it in our family office where we can all enjoy it.
I would put it in my den…..not in the laundry room where my computer currently is (which is also where the kitty litter box is!!….ugh!). You’re the best….love your blog!
Merry Christmas!!
I would put it in my guest room at the computer desk.
It would have to go in the bedroom where our desk is.
I would love it like a child and put on my desk hidden away in my bedroom.
I would LOVE LOVE LOVE that computer! I would put it in my study and use it all the time!
I would put this beautiful creature in our family room to replace the ancient desktop that we have in there now.
In the bedroom, on my desk…hooray, pick me! :)
I would put it in my living room where my family stays most of the time!
I would put the computer in my living room. It would help my husband greatly in his photoshop work.
Well, I was spit out before…apparently didn’t like my email address!?! I would put this computer in the kitchen…maybe for recipes and cook more than I do?! Thanks.
I would love to have that thing of beauty in my kitchen!
i would put it in the bonus room upstairs, where most of the family activity is. I would need one of those “take a number” thingys like at the deli counter, so no world wars would erupt!! Thanks for the possibility of winning this!! Merry Christmas! kathi
I would put it the basement office.
I would put it in my office. It looks like an awesome computer.
I would put it in my bedroom. Thanks for offering this giveaway!
I would put it on my desk in my bedroom. What a great giveaway!
In the living room, because that’s the only place where there is room!
I would put it in our living room so that we could use it as a TV and a computer!
I would put this in my office and I might share it! ;)
This would go in my family room! Oh what fun I would have playing with this …
What a great Christmas treat- how exciting!! :)
Tweeted about it too! :)
http://twitter.com/EmilyMcLeod/status/6986244976
In the office!
My Kids would love this computer!!! I have many Foster kids in and out of my home and this would be a great addition.
I would LOVE to win this computer!!! It would be great for blogging about my sweet baby twin girls! Happy drawing and Merry Christmas!!!
~Natalie
I would put it in our family room. I really love your turqouise desk. Very cute!
In my kitchen!! I need all the help I can get when it comes to cooking!
Probably in my kitchen.
I would love to put one in my den , on my desk , right by the window so I could play and gaze at the squirrels as they gather the pecans for the cold weather coming .
I want this one!
Hello! This would replace our old HP in the living room, but we would mount this one on the wall!! How cool is that!!! We love HP products and love all things electronic! Thanks for the chance to win and Merry Christmas!!!
In my kitchen for recipes!
I would be thrilled to donate it to the pregnancy care center in my old hometown. We have downsized our business and cannot afford to pledge our support but I know God would bless the young mom that would open it.
I am an old gram that may have trouble adjusting to the bells and whistles of a touchscreen but those young girls are sharp ya know
I would put this in our family room so my girls could use it…..when momma is not:)!
I would clean off my dresser in my bedroom to create a shrine for this awesome computer! This would be very cool to win!!!
I also blogged about it here: http://morefamilytime2.blogspot.com/2009/12/totally-cool-giveaway.html
I’d love to win this!!!
I would have it in our bedroom. I might even share with the hubs if he is nice!
This delightful piece of technology would be gently placed upon the top of my beloved childhood desk in our ever so efficient foyer/office (yes we have our office space in the foyer..hey gotta do whatcha gotta do huh?) LOL Thanks for the give away!
Merry Christmas ;-)
I’d love to win this, I’d put it in my kitchen!
-Anita
I would put the computer in the kitchen.
fun!
Twitter entry ;-)
http://twitter.com/j2tyco/status/6987063423
If I won the computer I’d put it in my kitchen on my desk :))
Our computer desk is in the dining room-close to the kitchen. I love having recipes at my fingertips.
I am a high school computer teacher, wife, and mama to a baby girl, so there are a million ways this computer could make our lives simpler (and add a little more fun)! I would love for it to be ours! :)
I’d put it right here….on my desk of course, where my old fuddy duddy sits now:)
Awesome! Got the perfect spot for it – right on the desk in our bedroom. First I would get rid of the hunk of junk desktop computer there now. Recycled of course. :)
I’d put in on my desk! Where else? :)
OH! I would put it in the den, so all of my family could enjoy it!
Wow – so many choices… I may have to move it around.. Bedroom, Living Room, Office, Kitchen :)
I would put this in my office which also doubles as the toy room. Not really a good combo, but I didn’t really have a choice.
OH it would surely go in the family room, but I’d be tempted to let no one else use it.
What a wonderful give-a-way…thanks for the chance to win it!
Jan
I would hide it! Somewhere my 2yr old could not find it!! She has taken almost all the keys off of my laptop keyboard :(
I would put this in my NEW HOUSE!
I would put it in the family room so that everyone would have access and we could keep an eye on what the kids were playing! Great giveaway!!
I would put it in the office so I could print and scan pictures of our baby girl who is coming in Feb!
I would totally keep it in my bedroom, away from everyone else! :)
I would love to win this awesome computer!!!
If I won I would first offer it to my boyfriend *he is stationed in Corpus* becaus i know he needs a nice computer and he would know how to use all of the fancy features* if he refused to take it I would put it in my bedroom and use it for my school (all online courses)
Wow, this would be amazing. My computer decided today that the keys working are optional. Um, that makes blogging hard,
I would put it in my room so little fingers can’t touch it. They can then have the old one w/ the busted keyboard.
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Probably in the hubby’s basement office. He needs something to brighten up the poor space.
I would donate it to The Idaho Learning Center in Nampa, Idaho. My daughter has learning disabilities and has received therapy through the ILC for 3 1/2 years. It has been life changing for her. I am going to begin volunteering in their office and they are in serious need of an office computer. They are a non-profit organization.
Blessings,
Kim
i might like this. : )
I would definately put it in our family office which is right off of the kitchen, so I can keep an eye on the kiddos.
I would love a new computter. TouchSmart 600 PC would work great for me. Looks great I can’t even imagine that I would win but someone will so I’m in.
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celiebow@cox.net
I would put it in our office on my desk because I don’t have one.(boo hoo) and I have to use my husbands.
How many different reasons could I give to describe how a new pc like this would be fun.
1. My new web design business could really use a new pc in general.
2. My quadruplet boys could interact with a touchscreen MUCH easier….
Thanks!
Brad Murray
bradley.g.murray[at]gmail.com
http://www.4tunate.net
I would put it in my family room that way the whole family would get to use it!
Ohh I would have to find a special place for this! Might have to get a new desk with doors because my 13 month old gets into everything electronic and loves opening and closing the laptop, playing with the phones, unplugging the fish tank, and knocking the vcr and cable box off of the tv stand! This would need to go in the safe I think!
I would put the computer in the family room! Where everyone could use it and close enough to the kitchen to call out that recipe! Thanks for the chance!
This thing looks FAN-FREAKN-TASTIC!!! Oh my goodness…I would love to get my hands on it :) what a cool giveaway!
Oh I would put it right here where this one is and give this one to my daughter to play on….. I so need a new computer!
That would be a awesome Christmas surprise.
Merry Christmas
Pam
Fingers crossed!
I would put this on the desk in our kitchen. It would get great use and my kids would LOVE it!!
Wow! I’d put it in our kitchen. I have th perfect spot all picked out.
I would love a new computer. This one looks so fun and sassy too. I am currently unemployed so I would use it all the time to do some job hunting. Of sourse it would be the mom computer. Off limits to husband and child.
I would put it in my mom’s house so that she could finally have the internet at home :-)
I would put mine in the kitchen for the family to use!!!
I would put it in my family room- my 13 year old mac is dying.
I would put it in my Alabama themed home office on top of my LOVELY target desk! ROLL TIDE ROLL!