HP TouchSmart 300-1017

So Sunday night as I'm finishing up some last minute homework on my boyfriend's laptop, it died out of nowhere. Flashback to Friday night, we were laying in bed watching The Boondock Saints on Netflix (which is amazing by the way), and out of the corner of my eye I see a blue flashing light. Apparently our two boys, Jax and Buddy, decided that the power cord for the laptop was their new favorite chew toy. I'd like to say that this was the first time something along these lines had happened but they had already chewed through the power cord for my laptop and the replacement power cord.

    As a temporary fix Friday night Zeb took some electrical tape and taped it up. We hadn't realized that it would be that temporary of a fix. So after the laptop died we had to run to Best Buy in hopes of finding a replacement cord. Of course they didn't have the cord we needed, but had a generic one that was made to fit just about every computer. This cord was a little pricier than the one direct from the factory, but it was important that we had it that night and could not wait 2-3 weeks for the other one to arrive. Once we got it home we also realized that it had an adapter that would work with my laptop.

Prior to Zeb's laptop dying we had been considering getting a desktop computer. We are both online students and between the two of us we have 35 hours this semester, so we could definitely benefit from a quick, reliable computer with a lot of memory. So while we were at Best Buy buying a power cord we decided to look at desktop computers also. We had already been looking at buying the Gateway One, an all-in-one touch screen computer. My laptop is a Gateway notepad and I love it and prior to the power cord being eaten I had never had any problems with it. However, when we were browsing the selection at Best Buy we both fell in love with the HP TouchSmart, an all-in-one touch screen computer. We opted to wait and do a little research before we decided. Once we got home we researched and read reviews on the HP TouchSmart. We are now the proud owners of an HP TouchSmart 300-1017 PC. Our HP TouchSmart 300-1017 has a 20" diagonal screen, an AMD Athlon II 235e dual-core processor, 4GB RAM, 320GB hard drive, built in HDTV tuner, built in 6 slot card reader, built in webcam, Windows 7 Home Premium, Microsoft Office 2007 Home and Student, Adobe Photoshop, MacAfee Virus Protection for three years and so much more! Now if only it would hurry up and arrive!