HP is doing something pretty awesome that I’ve just got to share. They want to know what my dream office would consist of if I would just spend the day shopping at their site and just for sharing, they’re letting me give away a $100 gift card to one of my lucky readers. How cool is that? I was just thinking about getting a better home office set up, too, so the timing is perfect. I know you want to know how you might walk away with a $100 HP gift card, so let’s jump right to that first.

The $100 HP gift card contest
You know I love contests, so I’m pretty excited to point out that you can enter to win a $100 HP gift card right here on this post! You can enter by leaving a comment on this post letting me know which HP laptop is your favorite. That’s it… super simple. Of course, like with any contest, you want to make sure you adhere to the contest rules. This contest runs through September 14th, 2009, but that’s no reason to wait. Enter right now by commenting below and don’t forget to let me know which HP laptop is your favorite.

My dream office
I spend most of my time working on my couch at home. It makes it easy for me to still be near my wife while I get work done and it’s just comfortable. Working on the couch, it’s important to have a laptop that can do everything so I don’t have to move to a desktop somewhere in another room just to edit photos or something. Backups are critical and my drive fills up quickly with review videos and photos, so I picked a 2TB drive for offline storage and another for backups of the first and yet a third for incremental and full backups of the laptop. For those times I need to scan, print, or just need to work at a desk, I picked out a universal docking station, an Officejet J4580, and the monster 27″ widescreen HP monitor. Here’s the full setup I picked out:

- HP HDX 18t Premium series laptop with the Intel Core2 Extreme Mobile Processor,
8GB DDR3 memory, 1TB 7200RPM SATA Dual Hard Drive and a Blu-Ray +/-R/RW
- HP 2709m 27″ Diagonal 16:9 Full HD Widescreen Monitor
- HP Universal Notebook Stand
- HP Officejet J4580 All-in-One Printer, Fax, Scanner, Copier
- HP 2TB Personal Media Drive (x3)

The coupon
They also want to make sure you know about the HP $30 stackable site-wide coupon*. If you’re going to go shopping, you should save a little money, right? Stackable means it can be used with the other offers like free shipping on certain orders, sale prices, etc. If you visited the online store already, you probably saw what I’m talking about.

* $30 off orders $150 or greater at HP Home Store. Use coupon code SV2132. Valid through 10/31 or while supplies last. Restrictions and exclusions apply.

I need to point out something in the (not really) fine print above. While it says 10/31, I’m told it’s actually only going to last for about a week, so if you’re going to take advantage of it, do it quickly.

HP has some great computers and everything else you need to get your home office started or just upgrade your current setup. Combined with the coupon and the contest, HP really is making it easy to have a great dream office.