Disney PC for Kids

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Source: New York Times

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Cuteness has long been a staple of the Disney marketing machine, and the company's new computer for children fits comfortably within that tradition. The Disney Dream Desk PC is a mouse-shaped model aimed at the 5-to-12 set.

Like other Disney products styled by Frog, the design firm behind the original Macintosh SE, the model sports rounded edges, big buttons and soothing colors.

The semicircles atop the blue-and-yellow monitor are instantly recognizable as the ears familiar to children everywhere. (Cleverly, they also function as stereo speakers.) Beneath is a standard Windows XP computer equipped with a Celeron D 2.66-gigahertz processor, a 40-gigabyte hard drive and 256 megabytes of RAM.

Disney said the $599 Dream Desk PC would be available through the Disney catalog and at www.disney.com beginning Aug. 12 and at CompUSA stores in mid-September. It comes bundled with ContentWatch's Internet filtering tools and multimedia children's software called Disney Flix, Pix and Mix.

In addition to the new blue-and-yellow PC, Disney is releasing other Dream Desk products in similar colors: a digital camera ($79), a video game controller ($19), a printer ($70) and a digital video camera ($99) shaped like the number nine.

There may not be anything technologically new about any of the gadgets, but it's easy to imagine them inspiring toy lust.


Source: PC Magazine

Disney knows kids, and the company is hoping it knows what kids (and parents) want in a home PC. The bright blue Disney Dream Desk PC ($599 direct)—designed by Disney and frog design and built by German electronics giant Medion AG—will include a 2.6-GHz Celeron processor, a CD-RW/DVD combo optical drive, a kid-sized mouse, and a multimedia keyboard and digital pen. The matching 14.1-inch LCD monitor ($299) sports signature Mickey Mouse ears.

The family theme goes more than skin deep, though, as Disney will preload each system with a range of the company's games and learning tools. The Dream Desk will also come with ContentWatch's ContentProtect Home Suite, which contains three Internet protection tools: ContentProtect (for Internet filtering), EmailProtect (for e-mail filtering and spam blocking), and PopupProtect (for blocking pop-up ads).

The Dream Desk will be available for purchase through Disney's catalog and Web site beginning August 12, and exclusively at CompUSA Superstores beginning September 12.

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Digital pen was a smart idea to add in as kids often like to draw on computers. Ive always wanted to get one just to have. A digital pen that is

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Overwrite the OS with linux. Use it as a server.