HP TouchSmart 600 Giveaway!
Christina Tynan-Wood on Mar 04 2010 at 1:40 pm | Filed under: giveaways
I got an email from HP a couple of weeks ago asking if I would like to review the TouchSmart 600 Entertainment Hub ($1510.99) here on my blog. Sure, I thought, that’s interesting. But then came the payoff: HP wants to give away - to one of you, my fabulous readers - this very same, slim, all-in-one Windows 7 computer, Blu-Ray player, media viewer, and entertainment system.
“Heck yes!” I said. “I’m in.”
So they shipped me one to try. (That’s a video of many of its features above. Check it out to whet your appetite. The touch-enabled applications are best seen in action.) I knew this giveaway would make one of you blog readers happy but I did not expect to suddenly become the most popular person in my own home.
I have a sullen teen and a moody tween so normally the best I can hope for from them is wan smile and a request for money. But being the keeper of this “Entertainment Hub” has improved my popularity ratings considerably.
I installed the TouchSmart 600 in my bedroom (though I think it would be great in a kitchen) because it was the easiest place to put it: There was a small table handy, we already have a home theater downstairs, and there just wasn’t room in my kitchen. The TouchSmart has a 23-inch display and doesn’t take up any more room than an LCD screen that size. It really just has one plug and no extra bits. Not even speakers. But my kitchen is full up. I also thought that the bedroom would be a comfy place to do my review. To my surprise, though, that bit of tech turned what was once just the parents’ bedroom into a hangout — and made me the center of attention.
My daughter and I now enjoy regularly sneaking away from everyone else to watch Bones and Burn Notice via Hulu.com and movies through Netflix.com on it. My son darts in — when I’m not about — to watch YouTube videos. And it has made my mornings more productive by displaying my calendar, email, Twitter stream, and Facebook so I can check in with the world and my upcoming day while I do my hair.
Last night, for example, after my daughter and I played a round of mini-golf in on the TouchSmart via our Wii, we fell giggling into the bed and switched over to Hulu to watch a little 30 Rock. Ava loves to poke the screen and spin through her viewing options using the slick touch-enabled app HP built for Hulu, watching snippets of the shows she’s considering rather than reading summaries in an on-screen menu. She made her selection and climbed happily into bed to watch.
My 13-year old was locked in his room behind a door he recently spray-painted with a black “Keep Out!” message. But I could sense his curiosity about the fun we were having. Eventually, he couldn’t keep up the teen-is-an-island routine anymore and knocked on my door. He stared at us angrily for a minute, glanced at the tossed-aside detritus of our Wii game, the episode of 30 Rock on the screen, and the two of us tucked into the comfy bed. Then he grinned at us. “Move over,” he said and climbed in. And for the first time in weeks, he and I - and more to the point, he and his sister — occupied the same room, the same piece of furniture even - and were happy about it. And people say technology drives families apart.
After I chased the kids off to their own beds, I switched over to Rhapsody to listen to a little music while I read my book. (I’m reading the new John Burdett book, The Godfather of Kathmandu. Anyone else?) HP built a visual music store app to run Rhapsody and Pandora. Poking through albums and artists building playlists with it is fun. (The wireless mouse and keyboard also work from across the room but the touch screen is a blast.)
HP asked me if I thought the Touchsmart lived up to its name “Entertainment Hub.” It certainly does in my setting. And if I had a bigger kitchen – or a less cluttered one – or a smaller TouchSmart, I think it would make a terrific information hub there. I have dreams of using the recipe app to finally gather together recipes from all the Web sites I frequent. But I think playing the Wii in the kitchen would result in a lot of broken dishes.
So how do you get yours? Easy. Tell me what you plan to do with it - if you win - in the comments. I’ll draw a random number from the comments next week. But I’m a greedy blogger and I want lots of comments. So spread the word or I might feel the need to postpone pulling a winner!
Good luck!
This giveaway is closed. I have a winner! jdburch was comment number 60 and she is playing with her TouchSmart now. I will do a post on how she likes it soon.
I love the idea of the recipe app! I think that we would put it in this great empty spot in on the wall in our living room. It’s a central spot in our apartment and it needs filling! Maybe now we can keep track of all of our appointments!
That’s a great idea for a giveaway! Count me in! A couple of days ago, I tried on of those out at Best Buy. They are so easy to use. I thought the touch screen wouldn’t be as easy to use, but it is so fun to use! I’m in love with it.
Let’s see….I think a Touch Smart would be great in the on my desk or in the kitchen on the family desk. And, with Windows 7, it would be great to have it in a very accessible place. It’d get a ton of use.
This looks amazing! I love the touch feature - I think I’d just be playing around with that the most. I’d love to try Hulu on here and the recipe app would be great, too. I’m thinking that it would be a great thing for my young kids (with a lot of supervision!) - easier to use than a mouse for smaller hands and allow them to learn with the latest technology!
Hi and thanks for the opportunity to get one of our hands on our very own (OMG)!!!
Well, if I were to win, I would most definitely share it with the entire family. My husband has a computer. This same computer has been shared with everyone in our family since 2004 and I’m tellin’ you- it’s about had it. We need to keep the side screen off just so it won’t over heat and shut down on it’s own.
Anyways- what would we do with it? My husband would probably work on his business connections a little more often (as well as chat on Facebook with all his friends). I would use it to write posts for my blog and hopefully have more fun doing it. My kids, well, there’s two little ones that would play on club penguin and barbie.com more often. My son on the other hand would be able to do his homework without complaining that he cant do it because the computer’s far too slow. Yes, that’s the biggest gripe in the family. It’s slow, slow and shuts down at a moments notice. The computer we have is crap so in saying this; getting a new computer (such as this beautiful beast) would be a God send. Everyone in our household would live happily ever after. Doing what we do best- searching the net, working both online and offline and most importantly; being able to upload pictures from our camera without having the hassle of being told we dont have the ability to do so cause we just dont have an “up-to-date” computer…
PLease count me in- this would be an amazingly awesome gift for the whole family!!!!!
Blogfully yours, Barb
PS- in hopes that you don’t have to postpone selecting a winner. I am doing my part in sharing the giveaway on twitter, facebook and all of my offline friends. What ever it takes, I will do my best to share.
have a wonderful evening and thanks again!!!!!
What wouldn’t I do with it! I need a new computer so bad & this one looks so awesome. I would enter contests, play games, watch movies/TV shows, listen to music, etc. This would be a dream!
I’ve been playing with this @ best buy for weeks now…It would be my replacement for the laptop I have…..and keep me from having to buy my hubby a laptop since he could just take mine since I’d have the cool one at home
Ooooh, I think this sounds way cool, and your blog is the first place I’ve read about it! I would love it for the mere fact that it’s an HP, and HP has proven to be reliable above all other brands. Beyond that, we were just talking today about how we desperately need something to keep our family’s appointments in line (since hubs somehow forgot DD’s orthodontist appointment ::ahem::).
And the real reason I’d love it? I have an empty console table that has HP TouchSmart written all over it! Since it’s in our great room, it would be easily accessible to those in the living, dining and kitchen areas.
Perfection!
Wow this is so cool - really hoping my number is picked! I would definitely use this as a hub in my home. Like Christina, I think I would place it in the bedroom since I have no real good spot in the kitchen. One of my favorite things about the all-in-one machine is one cord - I hate lots of cords!
Me and my family would all love this - I think it’d definitely bring us together like you said
WOW! I want one. My computer is an antique by computing standards, and I am in the market for a new machine. This is the coolest one I’ve seen so far. Love your newsletter/blog, makes me feel like there is hope for this also antique computer user.
Wow, I would put this in my kitchen. I would use this for the entire family as an entertainment hub. We all love video games, netflix, pandora, and so much more. My family could use a new computer We all have touch cell phones. Having this technology on our home computer would be pretty awesome.
Cool!! love the sleek and slim design - this would be a great replacement for my computer that is about 9 years old.
I have to say I love your blog! It is great to read about new technology from a womans perspective.
I love getting your newsletter and reading your blog- it keeps me up to date on the newest tech stuff. Our computer is SO outdated at home, and with 2 teen girls, it’s too full of music, videos, pictures, etc. I want to start my own blog, and do some writing, so it’d be great to have my very own HP!! (I might share a LITTLE). I’m hoping you draw my name; I’ll spread the word though! Keep up the good work!
I think I would make this computer my children’s computer. Children love to touch things to learn and use things and they’re old enough not to break the computer.
If I won I think this would replace my TV and my cable bill. Too often I can find nothing to watch on TV when I want to watch it so I head to my bedroom to watch netflix or free episodes online at Hulu. To have one spot where I could manage my calendar, wii, and entertainment would be awesome. I think my living room would start functioning like a normal living room again. Oh, I hope I win, this seems so awesome and I really want one.
Thanks!
Very impressive!! I would put the HP Touchsmart 600 in my kitchen! I cook all the time and I love to use the Internet to find great recipes. I entertain frequently and my kitchen is where everyone gathers, so with the Touchsmart, I’m sure they wouldn’t want to leave! I also enjoy playing music when I cook or eat and I would use the Touchsmart to play music videos, as well. The touch screen sounds so entertaining and fun - a very different experience from my work computer. So all I can say is…pick me!!! Pick me!!!
“Entertainment Hub” just about says it all. Our one computer is virtually smoking with all of the use of the family, but it doesn’t have TV or the Wii on it. Our two kids take for granted all of the applications that computers offer, and my husband and I use a steady ten or so every day. We would love an upgrade!
I’m in the middle of my DELL laptop failure and using my “kids” computer which is woefully underpowered with a too small screen and out of date software - I now realize why they complained (esp. when all 4 of them were hunkered down over the small screen). So now I need 2 computers - one for work and one for them (as well as one that could serve as a backup for my business). This would be a perfect solution esp if I could network it to whatever new laptop I have to get!
I would use it to replace the antediluvian dinosaurish laptops that I got as hand me downs (not complaining though!). I would use it to bring my kids all into one room, too, and drive my husband crazy with all the fingerprints on the touch screen! Yeah!
I would love to use it in our bedroom too, as a getaway from all the hubbub in the rest of the house. I could see sneaking away with one of my kiddos too, and having some special snuggle time to watch something we both like!
I love getting your newsletters and read your blog all the time. If I won, I would give this computer to my daughter who is a single mom of 2 boys. She has an older computer that they share but it is slow and really needs to be replaced. This would be great for her to set up in her living room so the kids could use it to watch movies (they love to watch movies on Netflix) and she could use it for her bill paying, emails, Facebook, etc. She likes to cook so I think the recipe app is a great idea. Watching TV shows would also be a great bonus and maybe enable her to cut her cable bill. And the touch screen feature is great! It would also be a wonderful learning tool for the kids. I hope I win - I would love to surprise her with this!!!
Wow, great giveaway! Thanks Geek Girlfriends and HP! I’d have put it in my bedroom to watch hulu, youtube, listen to music, watch netflix streaming, and catch up on facebook & twitter. I have the perfect little table for it too. Since I don’t have cable tv, this would be just perfect!
This sounds great. The recipe app sounds awesome. I’m always looking up new recipes on the web. I could use this to replace my laptop since my children 6 and 4 use my laptop to play games all the time and I’m left waiting to use it. Like any other mother, any tool I can use to organize my life would be greatly appreciated. I also like the idea of sharing it with the family, from playing games to watching Hulu would be a great way to spend time with the family. It’s amazing what a 6 year old and a 4 year old can learn about using a laptop, it would be fun to see how fast they can learn to use the HP TouchSmart. And they love to touch the screen on my laptop now! This would right up their alley.
Thanks for the great post. Like you, I have a teen girl and a son, and man, do they ever find each other annoying at times! You’ve named all the wonderful applications, and our household would have the same uses - homework, blogging, movies, scheduling, Facebook, twitter…but the greatest purpose for me would be that “Move over!” factor you described: everyone hanging together to Wii or Hulu, watch a movie via Netflix, or look at family pics and movies. Thanks for the info on the Touchsmart 600 - and for the chance to win!
Wow, this is a great computer! I’d love to be entered. I’d use it for surfing the web, doing e-mails, and learing how to use computers more fluently. I’d also use it for getting the news in MSNBC.
OOPS! I forgot to say what use I would have for the Touchsmart! To add to my original comment: I’d use it for my education, surfing the web, e-mail, photo editing, and research. And, I would use it for all the blogging I do.
I would make my husband the happiest baseball fan in the world…mlbtv subscription, follow all the players on ubertwitter, on and on and on! Oh, and I would be able to get my blog updated more often!
I’d watch every episode of 30 Rock!
This is a fantastic opportunity! If I were to be chosen for this HP TouchSmart 600, I would send it to my husband who is living and working in Saudi Arabia. He is living in a compound and his room is about the size of a small motel room. This would be ideal for him to have for both entertainment and a means of communication with the family. Thank you for the opportunity.
Would it be wrong to steal your idea of putting it in the kitchen for the recipes? Well, not just recipes as I’m only a beginner cook-in-training, but whenever I’m doing work in the kitchen, I long for things to do for little breathers. I think it would be great (or doom, depending on work that needs to get done, but happy doom).
And really, who shouldn’t be watching The Office while making breakfast, lunch, dinner?
Wow! This would be a great replacement for the old, bulky, 20-cord desktop!!
HP is great for finding a need and filling it. I love the tilt feature on the monitor! This will make Carpel tunnel a thing of the past with the touch features on the PC. The graphics look amazing — plus I can view my live TV with great clarity and ease.
I’m a geek who is very very very resistant to change. I have to been shown the value of something new before buying. But this I will buy! It looks amazing!!!
Thank you for the preview!!!!!
Wow, the touch capability is really neat! I like the idea of just one cable to hook up instead of cables coming out everywhere. I would edit vacation videos for my family.
This would be great for me to up on my ‘cool grandma’ status. In a small rural town and most adults don’t even text. There is so much I could do with this. I would rationalize getting the Wii Get Fit and the cookbook idea is great. Also, the rest of my family and grandchildren are scattered all over the USA, and this would be great to communicate with them.
Since this is a multiple usage, I could be doing the advised keepi the brain active bit to find out how to get the optimum usage. Facebook while cooking? Works for me.
If nothing else, think of all the kitty programs and Animal planet programs my cat could watch.
I adore this computer! I got to play with one at a conference just before they came out. And since my trusty laptop is dying a slow death (and my netbook travels with me) the beautiful large screen would be great to take its place.
Because I have so many things going on at once (3 websites, a book and 2 conferences in the planning stages) I would use the sticky notes and the large screen to help keep me organized and keep track of what I am working on- especially when it’s 4 things at once!
And, since we ditched DirecTV 2 years ago, we watch all shows online so the big screen would be almost like having a TV again!
How cool this machine is! If I won, I could let me geek sister come over and play with it and we could both geek out! I’d also share it with my twin teenagers, tweet, fb, etc. I might even watch movies on it….that would be nice.
i am going to find the next love of my life on match.com with this set up …….
What would I do with this? I would gift it to my dad. His eyesight is getting worse and the large screen would be easier to see than his laptop. And the touch screen would be amazing for when his arthritis acts up. He has developed an addiction to Youtube and loves to watch old tv shows and musical appearances on there, the bigger screen and better sound would be great for him.
While my kids are watching cartoons in the other room on our regular TV, I would sneak off with the TouchSmart 600 to practice yoga. Without a doubt, my husband would use it to build playlists, sending music farther into the reaches our house than our current boom box does. And I would love something to enjoy watching instant Netflix (my laptop just doesn’t cut it).
Thanks for the chance!
Elizabeth
I’ll pretend I’m Tom Cruise in Minority Report, flinging videos, music and pictures around the room just by sweeping my hands across the screen. Then I’ll reluctantly relinquish the controls to my true love, and she will invite all her girlfriends over for cocktails, online shopping, and taking turns rocking the world with the touchable interface to Google Earth!
I have been lusting after one of these since saw the first commercial! My “kitchen” computer is just so SLOWWWW that it is hard really do all the things I want. Multiple browsers are deathly slow. Is my reply my registration? I sure would like one!
I’d love to win. I’d spend hours with my kids, checking out all the new blue Ray movies and shows. Then after they are asleep, I’d check out my brother on u-tube, chat with my sister on facebook, and look up tomorrow nights dinner on 365crockpot dinner.com. And before I got to sleep, I’ll check out the newest celeb gosip on how to stop ageing or how to loose 20 lbs in 2 days while still eating french fries.
Good Times!
What fun I could have playing games with my grandchildren on it, then settle down to get some work done, and then back to games!!
I would probably put it in my bedroom and let the kids come down so we could play around with it, plus I really want a TV in there (hubs works nites so I fall asleep on the couch watching tv and am sore in the morning if he doesn’t wake me up and send me to bed or if I don’t go when he sends me) Plus I would love to give Windows 7 a try. I am a Mac girl but both of my macs are 4 years old and I am hoping that they keep on going, but you never know in the land of computers.
Thank you for the opportunity to enter the drawing! Our family’s life has changed significantly over the years technologically. We definitely spend more time online than watching TV/DVDs. I had the pleasure of working at Sun for about a year. It really opened my eyes to technology, and has turned me into a Geek Girl. Well, if we were fortunate enough to win the Touchsmart 600 I think we may be tempted to get rid of cable and hook it up to the internet and watch Hulu, download movies, play the Wii…the possibilities are endless!
This sounds like a blogging adventure!
I would be very eager to try a HP 600 touch smart because my son is now 6 and to date has shied away from computers and even the television because he is a VERY tactile learner and wanted to touch what he sees. He wants to touch the screen so that his fingers can make the movement happen, or else he loses interest. I would love to watch him explore technology that is more directly linked to his movements.
Also, now that my child is school age, my husband and I are remembering what it is like to spend time together! One of the things we do is spend time watching tv shows together on netflix or hulu after he gets off work at night. Now that we are not “trading shifts” for a sleepless toddler, we can enjoy old tv shows from the 80’s or the latest Burn Notice or Castle episode we may have missed. While my husband is at work…I know I will be designing coursework for the online courses I am teaching at the local community college.
Probably my other use would be to show the touchsmart technology to my parents, because I have been trying to show them the basics for their computer (email and skype for the out of state grandkids) and they keep touching the screen and saying “I want to make this stupid little arrow go ‘THERE’!!” They seem to be natural touchsmart users!!
I think touchsmart will make computers more accessible for new users, young and old alike.
judith
I would love an HP TouchSmart 600 for many reasons… but I will not bore you with all of them, just a few
I used a laptop in my kitchen as my “hub”- it was my recipe box, photo album, music player, and I used it to help me keep track of my children’s school calendars, and whatever life threw at me. Much to my dismay, my laptop has now a broken screen, with which I have to hold at an angle with both hands (or warping the screen) to see anything or to keep it running. Which is a pain (literally) when Grandma is requesting the new photos of my daughter and son being cute
So, I would use the HP TouchSmart 600 as my new recipe box, photo album/scrapbook, music player, calendar wiz, school tutor (spelling tests and math oh my), and a great way for me to view the many ebooks and sewing patterns that I have downloaded onto my now dead laptop that just taunts me as I fix leftovers.
I will give it to my wife. Currently she uses her iPhone to access the internet quickly as our other computers are in our office. This is the perfect solution for her needs when not in the office.
While I don’t mean to imply that she spends all of her time in the kitchen, it would be best put to use in the kitchen. Our family room, dining room, and kitchen are all one great room, and this is where we spend most of our time. It would be perfect for her and I to use without having to isolate ourselves in the office.
I am planning a big, long road trip in a couple months and would LOVE to take the TouchSmart with me as my everything-in-one. Will be visiting and staying with family and friends in several states — Louisiana, Texas and Florida — and lots of people can see it. I was planning to take my 2005 HP TabletPC, and the TouchSmart makes that one look ready for replacement.
This PC has so many uses, I think it will change the way we think about our computers. I’ve attempted to use one computer as an all-purpose device, but something always gets left out - if I put one in the kitchen, it’s too bulky for “real work” and the keyboard and mouse aren’t really conducive to cooking. If I put it in the family room, I can’t really see video unless I’m right on top of it, etc. The TouchSmart manages to address all of that.
Here’s what I’d do with it:
a) Migrate my media collection to it. If I could load iTunes on it, just like a “regular” PC, then along with Hulu and NetFlix, I’ve taken care of all my media needs. I wouldn’t need a television! And “audio-out” would mean I could lose my CD player and iPod dock!
b) Watch university content on it. A lot of courses are online and include video; this means I could “attend class” in my own family room! I can’t stress enough how often I would implement that - which means my daughter could do the same thing for streamed kid content that’s actually educational.
c) Put ALL of my recipes on it and free up a significant amount of counter space - some of the most prized real estate in my house!
d) Not only would I use Skype to keep in touch with the relatives - the video feature means I could send live video of the granddaughter and get the parents off my case when they ask for more pictures!
e) Use it as a digital photo album when it’s not in use for other things!
I’ve got at least a dozen more things I can think to do with it right off the top of my head.
How awesome!
Wow, what a great giveaway! Just had someone in to look at my desktop, death is imminent and will be ugly!
We got rid of the cable bill (yeah!) and want to Hulu etc, but are challenged by old technology.
My two boys will love being able to watch some of their favorites and I won’t have to hear how DEPRIVED they are compared to their friends who ALL have cable, etc.
We would definitely use it well in our living room or dining room and all three of us would have lotsof fun.
Maggie
My first thought was that I’d give it to my son, who just returned home after being discharged from the Army for an eye disease, keratoconus…It would lift his spirits AND hopefully help him find a new path for his life. Or….I might give him my fairly new laptop and keep the HP for myself! HMMMM….things to ponder. I will worry about it when I win!
P.S. Love your site!
I would love to win one! Being over fifty is challenging enough but staying current with technology is almost impossible. If I won one of these I would be launched into the future and not left behind….Please pick me.
love your website and all the great information.
Eileen
Wow, a chance to win something this cool is Awesome. Well I am a at&t U-vere manager & I also sell mry kay & have my own website. Currently I do all my work on my sons computer because mine died this past year it was 10 years old.
I would submit all my u-verse orders from home, use it for online bill pay, manage my Marykay webiste, chat with my birthmom & birthbrothers that I have never met yet & help other people reconnect with lost loved ones. I hope I win,Here it goes……
I would be the best mom ever! I would give it to my daughter who will be starting college soon. She loves to write books on our computer now and (selfishly) I would get my computer back!
I think the recipe app would be cool, but I would love to get to try it with a graphics program. At the moment the only place I would have for it would be my room, but having the TouchSmart might give me incentive to get my entertainment center from my son’s and rearrange things to get it into the dining area where my roommate would also have the chance to play with it.
Ooooh, fun! What a generous giveaway, and how cool that you got to try it out. I’d love to put that in my kitchen. I have two sets of twins in elementary school, plus one kid in high school, and the kitchen is where they all gather to get online. My little boy has autism, and he’s recently discovered some amazing things to see and do online. Visual learning seems to have opened a whole new world for him - his reading and math have even improved! We would loooove this!
We have 4 wonderful children and have a hard time keeping the three oldest off the old one in the spare room. The oldest is 12 and will be doing lots of research for 7th grade next year. A new computer that runs quickly would be wonderful for her. Plus of course she plays a little online too, with my oversight! Our 9 year old is very hands on and would love the simplicity and the touch screen. He is still learning how to get around on our old dog and gets frustrated with it. Our 4 year old is very curious about it and I have to really watch him!!! Being able to allow him to touch as he learns would be wonderful for both of us.
We could put it in the spare room in place of the big old dog which we could then put downstairs for the kids to work on their own.
I certainly hope more girlfriends sign up to try to win this! I will spread the word too= lots of homeschoolers could use a little lift too.
I have actually seen one of these, and I was so impressed! I thought it would be perfect for the kitchen. I didn’t really consider it an “entertainment” hub- that never crossed my mind. What I thought of was how great it would be for coordinating and keeping track of the family schedules, and how wonderful it would be for school work. I homeschool, and this touchscreen makes this system the ultimate learning center for anyone who homeschools. I really, really wanted one- until I saw the price tag. Too pricey for my homeschool education budget, LOL.
This is one of those products that it’s hard for the everyday working person to afford, but all of us want one. To have a computer that is so accessible, easy to use, and looks good too, would be anyone’s dream…as others above me have stated, I too have a very outdated pc, it’s probably 7 or 8 years old at least. It no longer get’s on the internet (something wrong with the motherboard) so I must go to the library to use their’s. It would be amazing to be able to stay home in my jammies and access the internet, for research, music, entertainment and so much more. So please, pick me, pick me!
Momma needs her own computer!
With 2 kids and a hubby I rarely get a chance to read my favorite blogs.
This PC looks like so much fun to use. As a 60 year old disabled lady with back and hip trouble, walking and standing is a big problem. So most of my activities revolve around things I can sit and do. This means I use my computer a lot. Unfortunately, my present PC is one I’ve had about 5 years and I bought it used from a relative and it truely is on its last leg! I would use the HP Touchsmart 600 for gaming, Face Book, research, news and so much more. It would be fun learning all the new things I could do. Thanks to you and HP for the opportunity to compete for one.
This looks like the same computer that my daughter was pining over before Christmas. She was all excited about it, and planned on saving up and buying it, but her boyfriend went out and bought her a laptop for Christmas. What a wonderful guy, right? It’s not nearly as cool as the Touchsmart, but how can she go out and buy one now without hurting his feelings?? On the other hand, if she WON it…well that would just be fate, right? She would use it for budgeting, and watching Netflix movies…and playing the WII thru it would be awesome too! What a wonderful promotion, thanks so much for doing what you do!
This looks SO awesome!! We need a new computer, but our budget is so tight, we’re pinching every penny. So it’d be so great to win a free one! We would use it as our main computer for our 2 teens to do homework; and we could save even more by cancelling our satellite and watching hulu on it. I’ll wish myself luck!! Thank you!
I’d love to have a computer in the kitchen, what a great idea!
I would update our comuter tower with this and donate our current tower to someone who needs it.
I would love to keep my kids up to date with technology, hard to do when you live in ALASKA, like it is another country or something.
Anyway maybe more than just my children and family could benefit from it.
Thanks for all the give aways everyone has a chance even those in alaska, I won the telenav contest a while back.
I’d use my HP TouchSmart PC to watch all my soaps (General Hospital & All My Children) & then play some touch enabled games (like Insaneaquarium). Pick me, pick me to win!!!
Wow! That sounds so impressive. I haven’t actually seen one yet. The first thing I would do is donate my SLOW Dell to a charity. Thereby replacing the new HP as the “family” computer. I have a daughter that’s cognitively impaired, but a cracker-jack on the computer. She gets extremely frustrated with the SLOW Dell. It’s a constant source of meltdowns. It would be wonderful to alleviate this trigger in her world. Good luck in your decision.
We share one laptop between myself, my husband, and my 13 year old daughter- we are all waiting out turn. I am a mac person, but would love a chance to become more “bi-lingual” as friends are always asking me to help them with their windows machines. This sounds like fun.
Wow. What wouldn’t we do with it. I would set it up to monitor the time and weather in Seoul where my son has just taken off to teach. My husband, an artist, would use it with photoshop and could share his art so much easier. And finally, maybe my technology impaired but eager to learn 80 year old mother could finally share her thoughts and pictures with family. We would all use the webcam with Skype to keep in touch with my far away son.
Finally, I would use it to watch Spanish language TV in my never ending quest to learn a foreign language.
A computer like this just screams to be used for media viewing and I think I’d like to try setting up lights, security, etc for my home on it too. Of course I’d then have to donate my existing laptop. I’m sure the local youth center could use it.
This looks great! I would definitely want this for my son and I to use at home. I am applying to graduate school for a PH.D. in Clinical Psychology and I need a computer at home. The multimedia features are amazing. I have a laptop, but this is great for at-home use, since the laptop gets uncomfortable. I am also working on writing a book about my friend and the trials and tribulations of her divorce and the mental abuse she endured she went through so that we can share this story with others and this would be great to write it. I saw this and got really excited. Good luck picking somebody to receive this beauty!
I can’t believe you are giving away that super cool computer!! I have been thinking about a device to integrate all my recipes for ever…this would be simply perfect, as you said, in the kitchen or the living room where I lounge most of the time.
But you know what would be coolest, is that finally I can do what the nerdy looking actors on crime shows do on TV. I can pretend I am explaining some very important and totally awesome concept to my friends and all that while using the nifty touch screen!
Thanks for the giveaway! And I am realizing from your blog that technology really works in your family for the better, so thanks for sharing that with us.
My son has been begging me for this. I know HP makes quality products so I would love to win it for him. He would use it for his music, pictures, videos, and to keep in touch with his friends. Thank you.
What I would do with this touchsmart?
I’d install the remote hyperv management toolkit on it, providing me with realtime monitoring of the server and adjusting where necessary using handy touch features.
I’d also may use it for Healthcare access, ever seen that video introduction on Healthcare, where they use a touchscreen? That’s probably the best usecase scenario for it and it would come in handy :).
Now for my serious answer: I don’t know yet, should you know everything beforehand?
Shared among the whole Family!
Thank You for the chance!
Hi! Love your blog! What I would use this PC for is college. This would make the ultimate dorm room computer. Easy for leaveing notes, video chatting with family back home, the large screen is great for studying, and it multifunctions as a TV; which in a dorm room space is a little hard too come by at time. Thanks so much for the chance to win this amazing computer! =]
In the spirit of giving, I would like to donate the TouchSmart to the pre-school where my wife provides individual computer instruction to every student each week.
Many of the staff are mature, experienced teachers but admittedly technology challenged.
The TouchSmart would be used for the teachers to communicate with parents as well as each other.
http://www.limaschool.org
If I win, that will be my independence day from living on DH’s mercy of using his machine!!!I will start living a new life I am sure.
I would use the device in my home office to reduce clutter and have a better use of space. The office also doubles as a guest room when we have visitors, so it would be a great device for both business and private uses for me, the kids and our guests.
I would use the Touchsmart to watch netflix and other shows while hubby watches his sport shows. My computer is ancient, I have trouble watching YouTube videos. I would love to play wii games and more.
I need something other than a smartphone to get online! Can’t afford to buy a computer at this time.
I love the idea of watching Hulu and shows via Netflix! Thanks for the awesome giveaway
well id put this wonderful tech gadget in my room (i like to watch tv in bed)..it plays HULU movies and shows, on the touch screen mode!!! i wish you could download hulu movies…no go. you can also get the tv tuner and use it as a DVR…oh my! the possibilities are endless!!!
wow this would be fun!! the screen is huge like a tv!! thanx!
The HP giveaway would be great. I received a netbook for christmas, but the small keyboard is hard for my husband with big hands and fat fingers to use. I have 4 kids so i’m sure they would be fighting over its use. Often we need another television to watch movies, so our netflix subscription would be put to great use. The recipe app would be great in the kitchen, too.
I would put it in the family room for the kids to use, as the one there is drastically out of date and won’t run any of the stuff the older girls want to use. The smaller kids would find it a lot more accessible than the mouse/keyboard combo (they love playing with the touch smart on display at Costco.)
I would finally throw away my tired, old laptop I received as a graduation gift…I’m having a notable reunion soon…it’s been a while. I would not stress about doing personal stuff on my home computer and work stuff on my work computer - separation of work and home would be a reality. Hallelujah.
If I win this, i’d give it away to my niece who is starting school next month. She needs a great all in one multimedia pc and this would be perfect as she is doing a mass communications course. She aspires to be a tv producer and she’s also a HP fan!
I would set this up where it will get a lot of use not just me, but for the rest of my family as well.
if i get this Touchsmart…. i’m only want to change my old pc with this for i Touch to get perfect Smart work….
I would install this in my living room, it sounds totally awesome.
This incredible PC would be the last piece of technology required to complete my plan to take over the universe. However, in case my wife is reading (wink), I’d set it up in our bedroom so she can watch what she’d like from Netflix or Hulu in those moments when I or the kids have taken control of the living room (maybe she’ll finally watch that Dirty Dancing Blu-Ray I got her or use her WiiFit in peace without the kids jumping on), and I’d use it for online study to complete my degree.
I would set this up in our bedroom, because I refuse to give one more red cent to the evil cable company for a box. Then I could stream episodes of Glee while I hide from my adorable but demanding kids for 45 minutes, or perhaps stream movies in the same year they are released.
That puppy would totally go in the kitchen so I could check recipes and cook for my blog without having to run back and forth to the office or print stuff out.
Oh, that totally belongs in my kitchen, aka central gathering place and general hangout. Fun!
i would give this to my sister for her birthday, she would be so happy to get a computer after her laptop busted on her
You have no idea how many problems this could solve in our family. Everyone’s PCs are upstairs — except mine. So it’s always - “mom, would you look this up?” or “hey, you should check out the cool airfare to Aruba!” Then, my daughter inevitably comes home from college for the weekend and wants to chat with us about some cool thing she saw — so we have to go find a laptop and schlep it into the kitchen.
Fuggedaboudit. This would proudly live on the desk in the kitchen, serving up lots of recipes (so i don’t have to print them out every time) and then let me watch TV or stream NPR while I’m cooking.
what a joy this could be! And because we’re hoping to get the house on the market the spring, wouldn’t we be the ‘coolest’ house anyone looked at with this in the kitchen? Would make them want to buy OUR house! So we can move to Wilmington!
Glad you decided to write this, Christina!
I would use it in the kitchen to try new recepies for cooking. I’d also catch up on some show’s while cooking. And BluRay to boot Swweeeeeetttt.
I would give it to a friend of mine who is a teacher at the Coalition for the Homeless. She has been helping people for years to get their GED and does little for herself.
I would move it into my kitchen as well. I have two kiddos who are already more computer savvy than me (5 and 1) and I think it would be a great tool for organizing our busy (and getting increasingly busier) lives.
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I would love this HP to replace my 9-year old HP, which is chugging away but getting a bit sluggish in its old age. *pets lovingly*
I would use mine more as an informational portal than for entertainment purposes . . . at least as far as streaming is concerned. I live in a rural area and have to depend on satellite Internet. Although it is much better than dial-up, it is still not broadband.
I would return to the land of the living.
ooohhh me likey!
One way that I would use this is to upload data from my child’s insulin pump, thus saving me so much time and energy entering it into an Excel spreadsheet. The device is only compatible with Windows.
I would put this on the kitchen counter so I could look up carb counts when preparing meals.
But on the fun side, I think the kids and I would have regular dance parties to our favorite music and videos!
Wow,…. this has been on my dream list for months now since I first heard about it… Kept trying to figure a way to do a social media review and get to at least use one for the next 6-12 months while reviewing!!! I would definitely use it in my bedroom… am on the computer almost 24/7 as due to inoperable spinal tumors and pain. I am mostly bedridden. Since I am self supporting and relying on alternative medicine and natural medicine, I need to do tons of research. I also use the computer for social media, for encouraging others, for product reviews, for communications with friends all over the world(via skype, FB, Twitter, and emails)… and recently started up a small nonprofit….Operation Blessing Brigade… our motto is basically to “Pay it Forward” and I try to be the encourager, connector, and negotiator to brings hope to others lives, one person, one day at a time while I still can. I have been working on this for many years but recently having a friend who is serving in Iraq it has started to grow. I found out that his platoon of 50 men and women hardly ever receive mail or care packages… So I decided to “adopt” the troop and encourage others to help me bring a little love to encourage them. Having an entertainment system and incredible home office center like the HP Touchsmart would enable me to do so much more than I already am ,…and more efficiently for sure. I would be able to station it close to the bed so I can get up and sit at the system while I am able, or lay back on the bed and use a wireless keyboard…( or remote if using it for Hulu or the movies ude to its incredible 23″ screen monitor!) Thanks so much for a greast review and this opp to win one!
cathy b
projecthope7 at gmail dot com
Thanks to my college grandson, who I’ve helped raise, it took me until I was in my sixties to become geeky! I sell real estate in the Pittsburgh, PA area and there is nothing I would love more than to have one of these fabulous systems! If you know anything about Pittsburgh real estate, you will know I can’t afford to purchase this. The opportunity to win, however - WOW - what a help it would be to my business - I’m sure my broker and coworkers would love to take a look at it also! Thanks so much to you for your great information. regina ruth
Well, i am new to this but this makes it worth a try. I am a soon to be 41 yo mom with 2 kids and a husband. i work 40+++++ hours a week as a RN. Just got on the couponing click and can’t get my hand-down-computer to work. My computer i have now if from my dad because he bought a new one. i still use dial up and have to reset this thing every-time i get on it to get anywhere on the internet. i am trying to pay of credit cards and putting back every dime i have to finally get out of debt for stupid stuff donw in the past. I have been a loyal reader for GeeK Girlfriends for about 1 year and love every blog. Thanks for all of the info - i feel like i am sowly getting updated on all of the new stuff out there. Thanks for all of the info along the way and keep sending it out.
I would love to win this. OMG is there anything more exciting? It is beyond my means that I could ever go out and purchase one. Just reading how wonderful an addition it is in your life I think the possibilities would be endless for me. Would sure love to be able to be a part of this.
I would love this for my family. You gotta love new technology!
This is a very interesting product. It wraps internet, theater, and TV all in one which makes it very versatile. I would probably put this in my bedroom as an alternative for my husband and I to share without the kids. It would also come in handy for when the final four, superbowl, etc are on and I don’t want to watch.
Would love to be picked to own this.
Wow! this is awesome! I think like you I would put it in the kitchen…. but then again having it in the bed room in place of the TV to watch Hulu and Netflix would be great also…. I too have a WII and sometimes I would like to play it by myself while the rest of the family watches TV in the living room…. sometimes you just want alone time… love your Blog and all the Info you provide thanks!
Are you sure this is HP? I might fall in love with HP all over again, I can’t believe this is actually HP technology, so advanced to the general public at a price we can afford. My first few computers were HP and they just didn’t “cut the mustard” so I switched to Dell a little priceyer but the technology more to my liking. I loved the HP support and stylizing, but it seemed my new “state of the art” HP fell behind quickly. This just might make me research HP products with a lot more sincerity and zest than just price comparison bases. We have touch screens in our 911 center, but never did I dream that the technology would reach us” homey’s ” and I am shocked that is is HP that has made this wonderful technology available. Count me in and I will spread the word. PS: Geeky Lady thanks for your forum I love EASY an you make it that way.
First and foremost, this computer would sit in my kitchen to track all the recipes I use from my over 600 cookbook collection. That would make it so much easier to track the recipes that have been “husband-approved” rather than trying to remember which book it was from. I would also use it to follow cooking videos to learn how to improve my cooking. It would be easier to check email (and reply, since I am less likely to reply on my BlackBerry). Overall, this computer would be used to organize an extremely unorganized person. By keeping all my information in the kitchen, all neat and orderly, I might actually be able to keep in touch with people again outside of facebook on my BB. I would keep track of my Pampered Chef business and inventory my cookware. In my house, the kitchen is the most-used room in the house, so it would probably be our digital butler… too bad it can’t keep house too!!
I might even consider sharing it with my husband, since his desktop is about 7 years old and slower than molasses…. if he’s nice to me. 
I know that the winner is not chosen based on our comments so I don’t have to worry about being accused of playing on anyone’s heartstrings.
I work at a facility that serves developmentally disabled adults as well as those who have experienced traumatic brain injury. There are some who would dearly love to learn computer and internet skills but don’t have the physical control to do so, and adaptive equipment is so expensive and not always covered if not considered a necessesity. I have often wondered if touch screen technology would help some of the people here navigate the web, which as we know opens up so many worlds. If I won I would use it to help the folks there access the world as inependently as possible.
Fingers crossed!
Hi there! This computer would be ideal for my current situation. I am a 2nd year university student and I currently live with my family. We are all currently sharing an old Dell Dimension C521, and at times it gets very hectic when we all need to use it (my mother recently decided to go back to school and has assignments as well, my father is an avid news reader and my big brother frequently uses it for job hunting). My brother and I currently share a bedroom; this would be the perfect place for the TouchSmart! We do not have a TV in our room, and this wounderful Media PC would be greatly appreciated, as I’ve been following this PC for a long time. The fact that it has an integrated Blu-Ray player and can also double as a television is just wonderful. Also, I know that my father would absolutely love the bundled cooking app (he loves to cook). This would be very beneficial for our family.
Hi, I am so excited I found your blog (from the April 2009 Family Circle)! You give great advice, and it is much appreciated.
So, this would be a huge help for this “undomesticated-mama”! What a great way to stay focused and on top of things.
I would definitely put this HP Touch-smart in our kitchen. I am always running back and forth to the computer looking up recipes, and directions for cooking, only to get side-tracked on my way back to the kitchen by my two “little monster boy’s” or anything else that might cross my path!!
Thanks for sharing your tech-knowledge, and giving us an opportunity to win this.
Crossing my Fingers…..Jennifer
creativelydomestic@hotmail.com
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I would put it in my room and finally have my own computer. I have 2 teenagers, have recently gone back to school myself and we have only 1 computer in our house. Also, when my teenagers have people over, my husband and I have to disappear into our room so as not to be humiliating…so at least now we could watch a movie or some hulu while we are hiding out!
I would love to have this! I would use the recipe application because I love to cook and I love being organized. I would also love watching movies and shows. With a 4 year old taking one tv for cartoons, my husband watching man shows on the main tv and my granny using the only other one to watch her game shows I often get left out. I love catching up with my shows on Hula. I love being organized so this would be great to keep me on track! I often give so much of myself to others that I forget about me so this would be a great gift just for me!
It would be so awesome to use it to replace our old laptop and use it for so many more things than the laptop can handle - doing work, skyping, managing pictures & music, and watching shows & movies. I love the idea of using it in the kitchen, but we don’t have enough room in our kitchen either. It would go in my bedroom where it would be used frequently and loved by my whole family.
This is so awesome! We have 2 business we run from home so as you can imangine one of us is alway on our PC. I can’t tell you how many times I have told my husband that our next computer will be a HP Touchscreen. For now we don’t have the funds to replace our current computer. Also I love the idea of a recipe app. I dream of having all my favorite recipes in one place with easy access.
What an awesome giveaway! I would do everything and anything with the HP TouchSmart. I would shop online, read blogs (maybe even start one…), watch movies on youtube, hulu and stream through netflix, download music, write notes to myself, read the news, chat with friends, play games, check my email, edit photos, etc…like I said I would do everything and anything!
I love this computer I have played with it at costco and it is soo much fun and does tons of cool things.
I have been lusting after the HP TouchSmart ever since I first laid eyes on one! I would love to have this computer on my kitchen desk to help me with my meal preparations. The recipe app would be a dream come true. I have two sons who are picky eaters and I am always searching for something new and exciting to have for diner. Thanks for the chance!
What a fantastic giveaway! I’d love to put the HP Touchsmart right in my dining nook to use for recipes and news and information on those busy mornings… (I had actually thought of mounting a mini-pc there for this purpose, I didn’t even know something as wounderful as the Touchsmart existed! (This one will be going on the must buy list if I’m not lucky enough to win.)
I do not know much about computers, I am still a little afraid of them, but a friend of mine told me one like this would be perfect for me, so here is my entry. I do not know if I am too late to enter.
I would absolutely love to have the Touchsmart in my home. We have a large household from blending families and have a wide range of ages in the family ranging from grade schoolers, tweens, college student to adults. There are so many apps that would make our family time much more exciting, as well as get our life much more organized and as you probably imagine we need all the organization in this household that we can get. I have been wanting to buy this since I first saw it previewed but with so many children in the home and activities and so on to pay for daily, it has been put on our wish list. I would very much so appreciate the recipe app and find it so helpful. I am always saving recipes on various websites and then trying to locat the sight that i saved the recipe on the next time I want to make the recipe. I could go on and on about how the children would make use of this as well. I am positive it would be a hit in our home for many, many years. I truly appreciate the opportunity to win this and thank you for all of the helpful information that you continue to provide as I always am finding new ways through your research to simplify our life. Thank you!!
I have to admit that having this beautiful computer in my kitchen might just be overwhelming for this information junkie…but….I would LOVE the opportunity to
give it my best shot! I’d love the chance to compare recipes, keep up with the latest news,
document the embroidery design ideas that pop into my head (all of which I have to walk into the next room to do now) all from “mom central..you guessed it the kitchen. And the thought of music from this same place is just a heavenly image!
So I say Pick me!…..I am believing and creating winning images to create a pull for this
awesome promotion to come to my house in Charlotte!
wishing you all the best and thanks so very much for all the great info you share here!
I won! I can’t believe it, I never win anything. When I came back to the site to check on the contest, I read where Christina wrote that the winner had not gotten back to her and to check thier email. As I did not have access to the net at home, I had not checked my email in a week or so. In that time she had sent me a couple of emails that went into my junk folder. I was so surprised to see them there, that I actually replied back asking if it was for real, lol. Thank you Christina Tynan-Woods, thank you Jennifer Darlene Hill(My friend who told me about the site and the giveaway, number 58 comment above). And also a big thank you to HP! This is an amazing machine, a huge easy to view screen, touch technology and great apps. I’m completely amazed. Thanks again!
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