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 have no idea where i’d put it, but i can assure you i’d find a place! probably our office.
I want to buy my daughter a new desktop, so it would be wonderful if I could win this for her. Thanks for having this giveaway!
the tech geek that lives in me is dying for this computer! it would go in our office i’d ditch the computer that’s there now breathing it’s dying breath.
I tweeted it! :)
@lexychik
just tweeted http://twitter.com/kimmi78_sd/status/7006987390
I would put this fabulous computer on the desk in the kitchen! Merry Christmas and thanks for another year of great entertainment and inspiration!!!
I would love to win this! I would probably keep it in my bathroom b/c that is the only place I can get some privacy – ha! Seriously, I would put it in our office so it can be enjoyed by all!!
I blogged about it!
http://www.lexychik.blogspot.com
I’d put this computer on my fabulous vanity/work desk! I hope I win!
Merry Christmas!
Well, I know where I would NOT put it…..in the so-called “office” that my husband and kids have turned into the horror of all horrors! Merry Christmas, BooMama!
I would put it in the family room so we can all use it!
I would so happily place this in my office! :) My husband just got a new computer and mine is slowly winding down…I LOVE to do photography and photoart/edits and this computer would be wonderful for that!
Great giveway!!
I would love to win the computer! I am going back to college this semester and could really use an updated computer!
I would use this as a business computer for my new business! Merry Christmas!!!!
I’d put it on my red desk in my home office. It would look so sharp!
this would be fabulous. it would go in our office, on a desk that came from target.
I would put it in our spare bedroom to replace our getting slower by the minute desktop! Thanks for offering the giveaway!
I would put in on the desk in my room to replace my old computer.
I would put this in the living room!
I’d have a hard time deciding between the family room so my grandkids could enjoy the touch screen and the kitchen where i could use it in my cooking. But I think the grandkids would win out over the kitchen. (they usually do)
hernandezclan@gmail.com
I’d love to put that thing in my kitchen, where my desk is…heart of the home and all that!
I would surprise my husband and put it in his office. I just recently got a hand me down Mac from my brother and I love it but my husband absolutely hates it. He still uses our old Dell and says he’ll never go Mac. He’ll forever be a PC lover.=)
That’s a toughy. First thought was my craft room, but I love the recipe feature and how it reads a recipe to you. Maybe the kitchen would be better. Cooking and touch screen, hmmm…I’m imagining a sticky screen.
I hope I win
I would put the computer in the family room where we could all benefit from it. We sure could use a computer we have a laptop which is slow. Happy Holidays.
Wow! What a great review.
Now I can’t decide where I would put it, in our office or mount it in the kitchen to utilize the neat-o recipe reader.
This would go in the home office, so my wife will stop using the laptop that I need for Grad school and work!
This computer sounds amazing. I could really use this as my computer I use for work is about 6 years old and ancient in computer years. I hope I win!
just graduated from Texas A&M, WHOOP! could use this great computer!
I would put this in the living room, where I have the most marvelous view; at first I had my computer in my spare bedroom/home office until I figured out I was wasting that view hiding out in the back of the house.
I tweeted about this: http://twitter.com/Sheskis
I would definitely have it in my little eating nook…close to the kitchen and living area!
Oh, this would so go in my kitchen. I can just see oodles of great recipes, lots of schoolwork…maybe a bit of facebook and blogs, too, of coure!
please, pick me. :)
I would put it in my daughter’s kindergarten class room so that the children would have a new computer instead of the old ones they are given to work on.l
It would be lovely in our office/guest room.
I will put in my room to help me get through school! :)
I would love to have this in our office. Ours is a total dinosaur! Merry Christmas!
….it’s December 24th, 2:23pm EST and I was just sitting at my desk wishing that I could share pictures of my kids and the tree with my parents who live 500 miles away….
and then, I stumbled upon a link for this giveaway and I almost never enter giveaways but this would be SO wonderful to give to my parents so that we could be “closer”! :) *fingers crossed* Merry Christmas to all…
I would put it in the kitchen so the kids could use it too.
I would put it in our family room, that way the whole family would be able to use it. Thanks , JJ
I would love this sooo much! My preschool will really benifit.
In the family room – to share with all!
I tweeted here: http://twitter.com/1MomTo2
Oh, geez, I would put this computer in my home office.
Posted on Twitter! :)
http://twitter.com/morefamilytime
Blogged about it!
http://daytondollars.blogspot.com/2009/12/another-chance-to-win-touchsmart_24.html
I’d love to win
OMG I would LOVE one of these and it would go in MY office….of course I’d share!
I would put it in our classroom! How exciting that would be!!
We would put this computer in an armoire in our breakfast nook!
The living room! Hooked up to the TV to boot!
I tweeted about the giveaway
http://twitter.com/1stopmom/status/7010847696
I would put this in my living room where my Christmas tree is right now.
Oh my gosh, could I EVER use this!
I would definitely put it on our desk in the office downstairs. We REALLY need to replace the ancient HP that is HUUUUGE and takes up too much room (and doesn’t work anyway.) This would definitely help get us to use the office as an office again.
I tweeted about this giveaway.
http://twitter.com/csaulpaugh89/status/7010998712
I would so love this….actually, my husband has been wanting one ever since they showed up! There are four of us trying to use a laptop and an ancient desktop and we all facebook, play myspace and facebook apps, etc and have gotten into fights about time on the ‘puter! It would go on the desk that’s beside our dining table (small house)…
It would go right in my bedroom on my grandmother’s desk! Right now we are a family of five with 2 computers, so it would be well used!
Merry Christmas!!!
Thank you for the opportunity.
I would put it in the den where our family hangs!
I blogged about the giveaway here
http://giveaways.1stopmom.com/2009/12/24/win-a-hp-touch-smart-computer/
We would put the computer in the living room so that family access is unlimited. What a great giveaway.
If I win this computer I will put it in my Florida room (that’s a room on the back of the house with lots of windows).
Blogged about giveaway.
http://cmsphotoblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/hp-smarttouch-600-giveaway.html
I think the kitchen/living area would be ideal!
I have been coveting this computer since I saw it at Best Buy years ago. Every time I see it, I am in awe of its sleek style. So…with that said, I would love to hang it in my kitchen. I like to try different recipes from the internet, and this computer could help me in my endeavors. Also, my three kids would love to use it to plan out all of our activities. It could easily take the place of our loaded calender. Thanks, and Merry Christmas!
I am self employed so I would put it in my home office where I work. Thanks.
I’m wishing for a Computer Christmas miracle:)) Thanks for the opportunity!
Merry Christmas Boo Mama!
please enter me! Such a lovely gift.
Thanks.
Oooooo….ahhhhhhh!!! I would put it on my thrift store rehauled desk (in white though with pink knobs!) love your desk! Happy Christmas!
What a great Christmas gift for the whole family!
I would put this in our den! I’m a busy college prof who could really use a new computer.
I am in need of a new computer in our home office. It will go nicely on my desktop. My old computer has been running so slow. This would top my Christmas to get this awesome computer!!!! Thanks for having a giveaway!
I would put this awesome computer in our office! What a fantastic giveaway! Thanks!
I would put it in my bedroom. What a great giveaway at this time of year!
I would put this computer in my bedroom. I love it! Merry Christmas!!
If only I had a new HP, I would set it up in my home office.
Merry Christmas
I would love this computer so much. Thanks for the opportunity.
pick me pick me – would love love love this – guess I am on a sugar rush for the holidays and can’t stop moving!
I would put it wherever my mom would want it since I would give it to her. ;) Her toshiba is dying and she would FLIP for this!
I blogged: http://superangelsblog.com/?page_id=133
When I saw how many entries were on this, I wasnt going to even try… but then I thought. well , it only takes one right? PLus it would be remiss not to comment on how much I as a blogger and newbie vlogger appreciate brand marketers awarding , rewarding their consumers and ambassadors for their WOM campaigns!
when I first saw this brand of HP pc a couple weeks ago, my heart soared.. it would be such a blessing to my own personal life. It would go in the bedroom, as I spend much of my time in bed due to 3 inoperable spinal tumors that are eating thru the bone and trying to take my life. but I have now hit the 3 year mark, after they said I had maybe a month!!! Hooray! Needless to say having a 23 inch monitor pc that can go on a wall or desk, that has a wireless keyboard and mouse, and also a touch screen, would help my life to be so much more productive. I would be able to put a small sofa style table desk at the end of the bed . when able to sit I could use the touch screen part at the desk table. when needing to sit in the bed, I could use the wireless keyboard and mouse and still be able to see the monitor…using it for entertainment via tv, or for productive internet communications.
cathy b
projecthope7 at gmail dot com
@projecthope7
http://www.mywaiora.com/724517
I tweeted: http://twitter.com/Super_Angel/statuses/7012624920
I would leave this in the family room for everyone to enjoy.
I tweeted…
@projecthope7
http://www.twitter.com/projecthope7/status/7012709785
cathy b
projecthope7 at gmail dot com
http://insearchofthebest.blogspot.com
http://www.mywaiora.com/724517
in my home office!
I would put it in the office where my hubby could escape all the madness and PLAY! he would be in love and this is so something i could never afford to buy for him!!!
Instead of using my Christmas money on a new computer, it would sure be nice to win one!
I would put it in my computer room or maybe not…. My son has taken over my other computer and my husbands laptop crashed so I might hide it in my room for awhile….
I would put this is my dorm room. Imagine the amazing things I could do on it!
I twittered about the HP Touchsmart!
Fingers crossed!!
twitter.com/ablissfuldream
I would put this on the desk in our study and promise to share with hubby and daughter. Or maybe on the desk in the mudroom, or quite possibly in our bedroom upstairs. Oh, so many decisions!
I would put it in the kitchen!
I would put the computer in the dining room, where we all do our work.
I’ll put the computer in my classroom so that my students could use it as well.
I would put the computer in my bedroom on my nightstand with a big note that if anyone under the age of 10 touches it they will melt!!!
I would put it in my Living Room where I could share it with my three children and keep an eye on what they are doing as well!
I tweeted!
http://twitter.com/phantom000/statuses/7014366903
I would put it in my kitchen. Merry Christmas!
I would put it in my bedroom.