HP TouchSmart 600-1050 23-Inch Black Desktop PC

Computer Technology and Software

March 14th, 2010 by admin

Intel Core2 Duo Processor T6500 (2.1 GHZ, 2 MB L2 Cache, 800 MHz System Bus))
4GB PC3-8500 DDR3 SDRAM memory (2x2048)
750GB 7200RPM Serial ATA hard drive; Slot-load SuperMulti DVD Burner with LightScribe Technology
Touch-enabled 23" diagonal Full HD 1080p LCD Display with Brightview technology; NVIDIA GeForce G200 Graphics with 320MB integrated shared graphics memory. Up to 1.9 GB Total Available Graphics Memory as allocated by Windows 7
Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit

Product Description
From the elegant design to the advanced features to the incredibly powerful suite of built-for-touch applications, the HP TouchSmart PC redefines what touch can do for you—and what you can do with a touch.... More >>

HP TouchSmart 600-1050 23-Inch Black Desktop PC

5 Responses

E. Rohr writes:
March 14th, 20105:27 amat

I didn’t have enough time to work with it, but the design, functionality and all first impressions are fantastic
Rating: 5 / 5
Chandra Nagarajan writes:
March 14th, 20108:10 amat

Apart from a good sleek nice looking desktop, HP has developed some nice day to day apps to make use of touch screen input for windows 7. As more and more applications start accepting input through touch this will be a great PC to own.
Rating: 5 / 5
J. Sepe writes:
March 14th, 20109:01 amat

I had high hopes for this product. Other reviews said that the HP touch software made this the touch screen to get over Sony. The product was easy to set up and I was up and running in no time. I started playing with the TouchSmart apps right away. It was a little sluggish but acceptable. The Hulu app kept telling me that there was an update. I would select update and the new hulu app would download and install. Next time I went into hulu the same thing happened. . . over and over. I spent over two hours on the phone with HP tech support. Very nice people but they could not solve this issue. They had me re-install the OS and it still happened. I went to google and there seem to be many folks with this same issue. I decided Hulu was not all that important right now.

This morning I get a notification that there are some TouchSmart updated from HP and would I like to install them. Sure. I initiate the updates. After about 10 minutes I get an alert that setup. exe could not be found. Please make sure that it is where it is suppose to be. The updates failed. I guess I can try to resolve but this is starting to feel more like a science experiment and not a finished consumer product.
Rating: 2 / 5
J. Simpson writes:
March 14th, 20109:07 amat

Bought this as a birthday gift for my mother, who wanted something to (1) check email and (2) update her iPod. She is not a computer person. I hoped by getting her this, and having it stuck on a kitchen counter, she’d use it to do those things, and maybe venture out to do more.

Mission accomplished. She’s using it on a daily basis–video calls on Skype, playing video games with my niece (her granddaughter), playing videos on Hulu. . . you name it.

Its lack of portability is actually a plus. A laptop is easy appropriated by others in the household. Same thing goes for lack of video inputs. Nobody is hooking the 360/PS3 up to this. This is mom’s computer.

It is also used daily by my niece–age < 8. The “bloat-ware” games apparently come with a sticker shock after a few trys, so beware those of you with young kids. Refusing to pay $20 for polar bear bowling to a child who’s really into it ain’t fun. . . but the price is just too outrageous.

Couldn’t be happier with the purchase. Never thought I’d be receiving video calls from mom. We feel like the Jetsons!
Rating: 5 / 5
Scott Chou writes:
March 14th, 201011:05 amat

Very nice, well constructed product. The best reasons for getting this would be the looks and all-in-one integration. Otherwise, you could piece together a traditional desktop with similar specs for nearly half the price. I hardly ever use the touchscreen so that part was a bit of a waste. Nevertheless, it’s not that expensive for amount of value it delivers.
Rating: 5 / 5