HP TouchSmart 600-1050 23-Inch Black Desktop PC (Windows 7 Home Premium)

by HP

Product Details

• Item Weight: 37.3 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 37 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B002ONCDWY
• California residents: Click here for Proposition 65 warning.
• Item model number: NY538AA#ABA
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (37 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,927 in Computers & Accessories (See Top 100 in Computers & Accessories)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 18, 2009

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

IDEAL FOR Touchscreen access to info, entertainment and social networks. With an HP TouchSmart 600-1050, you can zoom in or out on photos and videos, plus edit them with the touch of a finger. Buy this Desktop All-in-One to enjoy DVDs on a large, high-definition display in clear, crisp sound, and video chat using the integrated webcam and microphone.

SPECIFICATIONS

Processor Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor T6500 Operating System Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium 64-bit Display Touch-enabled 23" diagonal Full HD 1080p LCD display with BrightView technology Memory (RAM) 4GB PC3-10600 DDR3-1333 Hard Drive 750GB (7200RPM) SATA Wireless Wireless LAN 802.11b/g/n & Bluetooth® Optical Drive Slot-load SuperMulti DVD Burner with LightScribe Technology Video Graphics NVIDIA GeForce® G200 Graphics with 320MB integrated shared graphics memory. Up to 1919MB total available graphics memory as allocated by Windows® 7

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FEATURES

Touchscreen Technology Use multi-touch gestures to navigate your touchscreen Multicore Processor Get better performance and work more efficiently 6-in-1 Digital Media Reader Transfer photos from a digital camera to your Desktop All-in-One without using cables LightScribe Technology Burn labels directly onto CDs and DVDs Built-in HP Webcam Video chat live using your HP TouchSmart 600-1050 TV Tuner Watch, pause, rewind, and record live television Wireless LAN 802.11b/g/n Connect to a wireless printer and other accessories Bluetooth® Save time with wireless synching and printing INCLUDED

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MORE INFORMATION

Datasheet (PDF)

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.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

46 of 49 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best of its class, January 7, 2010

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Jeffrey S. Johnson (Hamptons) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: HP TouchSmart 600-1050 23-Inch Black Desktop PC (Windows 7 Home Premium) (Personal Computers)

First Touchscreen - occasionally it takes a couple tries to get touch response.
buy screen wipes , you have finger oil and this is one big black mirror

we got this to replace a cluttered noisy desktop, it has no fans = no noise and is very compact, and at 1920x1080 true HD for the 23" screen, its very productive workspace, very fast.

Problem... It makes such a good media center that there is family competition to use it. It seems to work wireless "n" speeds so Netflix and hulu are stutter-free prefect, its bigger than the kitchen TV. Someone is always using it.

at 1200 bucks it was 2/3 the cost of the system it replaced.

edit update - we just ordered #2 since the first one never left the Kitchen & Livingroom area, where it will likely live out its useful days so Dads that buy it, set your expectations - Recipies, Netflix, Hulu, Email and facebook, and skype 2 way video hi mom! youteube, ABC full length shows and Vevo Vevo looks amazing will rule along with the touch screen magazine catalogs and lookbooks at ctndigital. youtube of this touchsmart doing amazing things in flash [...] it wont be much used for real computing - its all family entertainment.

edit update Oct 2011 - keyboard wore out from basic normal use )... needs replacing. added a wireless printer scanner to its configuration and shared a directory to the TV with DLNA for looking at family video and photos. This is the only computer in the house that has survived intact - 2 years daily use, basically always on. Built-in camera and mike are still better for Skype than newer computers... a couple of other systems here that spec'd out to be better, but we have found otherwise, The big all-in-one sees the most use. IMHO we got lucky.

32 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is an EXCELLENT computer!, December 28, 2009

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Ralph Mclean "YBNormal" (Annapolis, MD, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: HP TouchSmart 600-1050 23-Inch Black Desktop PC (Windows 7 Home Premium) (Personal Computers)

One of the reasons that I purchased this computer was a previous good experience with an HP desktop. I have had Gateways, Dells, and Sonys, by my HP desktop outlasted them all, and I never had any trouble with it, until the end (after 3 1/2 years) when one of the hard drives started to go. Anyway, I had been watching the Touchsmart line since they came out, and was waiting for the price to fall. Well, it finally did, and even after they improved the touch system (Go to [...] for a thorough review if you have the time). Getting back to this purchase... This thing is a dream. I was so anxious to get it started, that I opened it and set it up on the kitchen table. I was connected to my home network in only a few minutes, AND with only one cord - the power cord. The touch system is outstanding, and some of the programs that go with it, the Touchsmart Home programs, are awesome(and yes, I know that word is overused nowadays, but stupendous seemed kind of silly). After I transferred over my iTunes library and my family photos, the computer imported them into Touchsmart, and they became soooo easy to work with. Also, I never realized how many programs are optimized for touch, but i'm beginning to find more and more of them. It looks like the wave of the future. It might be time to climb on board. Oh yeah, this has Windows 7, which is light years beyond Vista... And the built-n Webcam is great as well... And did I mention that you can use voice command when working with your photos in Touchsmart Canvass? Oh, and the picture quality is stunning when viewing HD internet TV, Hulu, or Podcasts, and I haven't even set up the TV tuner yet... Also, Hulu is built right in to the Touchsmart Home programs...

60 of 68 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars TV-in Port broke within 1st month of usage!, December 23, 2009

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Bik Chung Yeung "Tina2009" (Cupertino, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: HP TouchSmart 600-1050 23-Inch Black Desktop PC (Windows 7 Home Premium) (Personal Computers)

This all-in-one seems like a great deal. And as a PC, its great--fast and easy to use.

But, after one month of using it, I've found that the touchscreen features are more of a gimmick rather than a usable interface. I end up using my mouse for everything. If you check out professional reviews, you'll see that they echo this sentiment. But thats not a big deal.

However, what forces me to rate this computer 1 star is the TV-in port. We bought this computer so that it could also be a HD TV. However, when moving the computer, we had to unscrew the cable and the TV-in port broke. HP refuses to exchange it or pay for a repair. They claim that we must've used too much force when unscrewing it. Not to sound petulant, but I'm a 5-foot, 90 lb, female engineer. If I could break it accidently by "force" there is a SERIOUS error in design.

So, to summarize...
Monitor: 5 stars
PC: 4 stars
TV: 0 stars
HP customer care: VERY VERY FRUSTRATING