Asus Team up with Disney to create Kids Netbook
Posted in: 9inch, asus, tags: asus, disney, Netbook, netpal
According to an article posted on USA Today, Asus are to join forces with the mighty Disney corporation and are to produce a netbook together aimed at the younger market.
The Disney netbook or 'Netpal' will be available in both Toys R Us and Amazon in the US and will be produced with the following specifications that we know of to date:
Display will be 8.9 inches, the processor will be the Intel Atom and storage comes in with two options of a 16GB SSD or 160GB HDD configuration. The weight of the netbook will be between 2.2 and 2.6 pounds.
Applications on this Asus netbook spell out it's tie-in with Disney, including a "Magic Desktop gadget tray” which includes a Disney browser and a Radio Disney widget to enable live streaming of music to the netbook. The Netpal will run using the Windows XP operating system with a "kid-friendly user interface" with further Disney tweaks.
The Asus/Disney netbook is due to be released in two different colour combinations - “Princess Pink” with a floral design and “Magic Blue” with a Mickey Mouse design and is due for release in July this year and is due to retail at around the $350 mark.
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ya ben notbook araştırıyorum 7-8 yaslarındayım satlık disney notbook bulan varsa msne ile haber yollasın
Well I bought one of these netbook laptops for my 8 year old daughter for Christmas and I am not lying when I say that withing 10 minutes of booting this thing up and finishing the set up process, I already had 3 icons on my desktop promoting porno sites. Now.. granted it could have happened because of my something I might have done wrong…. but the reason that I am angry at ASUS is the lack of support that I got from them. I called a total of three times and the first 2 times they really did not know how to help me… they said that they will escalate the problem to a higher level tech. Next day I had not received a call back.. I called myself and was told by another tech to try to go into Recovery mode by pressing F9. We tried like 10 different times… by pressing f9, Shift f9, Right shift f9, etc. She came to the conclusion my computer could go into Recovery mode and since the issue was MALICIOUS SOFTWARE, the warranty did not cover that. I said, fine, but the fact that your pc does not got into recovery mode.. Shouldn’t that be covered by your warranty… and she just dismissively said no.. that not all computer might be able to go into recovery mode. She said, you have to run recovery mode from the CD provided… but wait…. these netbooks dont have cd/dvd roms… so in order to run cd/dvd i would have to buy an external drive, I check and they run from $40 to $80.
so.. bottom line the computer should be able to go into recovery mode, but the fact that this one doesn’t , its not their problem. Today is January 8th, and my daughter has not been able to play with her netbook yet.
Disappointed with ASUS big time.