Talk about a Mickey Mouse computer... Disney now offers a computer with, of all things, Mickey ears and a kid-sized mouse.
Ok, Mousekateers! Sing it with me, "M - I - C, K - E - Y, B - O - A - R - D!" :D
Banking on the huge popularity Mickey Mouse enjoys with kids worldwide, Walt Disney on Thursday unveiled a desktop PC with a monitor sporting the ears of the cartoon character.
The desktop, named Disney Dream Desk PC, has comes loaded with own-branded applications that enable children to draw, edit pictures, create music and write and direct their own movies. Its TFT (thin-film transistor) liquid-crystal display is Mickey-shaped and the computer has a mouse that is small enough for children to hold.
Disney's desktop, built by German PC maker Medion, comes with an Intel Celeron D 330 processor and a 3-D graphics card from ATI Technologies. Embedded speakers, a DVD player, a CD writer and player, and a digital pen are also included. The system is preloaded with the Windows XP operating system and software for e-mail filtering, Internet filtering and pop-up blocking.
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News source: c|net News.Com
Ok, Mousekateers! Sing it with me, "M - I - C, K - E - Y, B - O - A - R - D!" :D
Banking on the huge popularity Mickey Mouse enjoys with kids worldwide, Walt Disney on Thursday unveiled a desktop PC with a monitor sporting the ears of the cartoon character.
The desktop, named Disney Dream Desk PC, has comes loaded with own-branded applications that enable children to draw, edit pictures, create music and write and direct their own movies. Its TFT (thin-film transistor) liquid-crystal display is Mickey-shaped and the computer has a mouse that is small enough for children to hold.
Disney's desktop, built by German PC maker Medion, comes with an Intel Celeron D 330 processor and a 3-D graphics card from ATI Technologies. Embedded speakers, a DVD player, a CD writer and player, and a digital pen are also included. The system is preloaded with the Windows XP operating system and software for e-mail filtering, Internet filtering and pop-up blocking.
View: Complete Article News source: c|net News.Com
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Kaspersky Labs has already updated the antivirus databases with protection against Brador. A detailed description of Brador is available in the Kaspersky Virus Encyclopedia.
$599? that's a rip-off
The parents will look for a PC for their little kid, and decide "there's too much information!"... so they go with a "kiddie PC", or Micky Mouse one.
...hopefully a "kiddie PC" doesn't come with kiddie porn.
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