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Here it is, Mouseketeers! The official PC of Neverland has arrived, but the Disney Dream Desk PC seems like a mixed bag to us. On the one hand, it is a nice looking system for kids with an Intel® Celeron® D 330 2.66GHz processor with 256k of L2 Cache, 256MB DDR RAM and a front side bus running at 533MHz. Microsoft Windows® XP Home with an ATI RADEONâ 9100 PRO IGP graphics card makes it perfect for fighting Captain Hook (in games, anyway) and the multimedia (M i) keyboard with Optical Pen and built-in cradle is perfect for kids who want to draw. The 14.1″ TFT LCD flat-panel display, 40 GB Hard Drive, CDRW/DVD and internal modem plus built-in Ethernet port rounds out the feature list (although we would rather see the whole setup be Mickey Mouse black rather than powder blue – where’s the pink gear for girls, Walt? Girls use computers too!) There’s TONS of kids software that comes with this rig, which may explain the price tag: $950. Seems steep to us, but as all of us have witnessed before the screams of “BUY ME THIS! BUY ME THIS!” have a way of quickly loosening parent’s pocketbooks. We’re betting Disney is Strangley enough, any attempts to go to the MichaelMoore.com website from this PC will cause it to send an encoded signal to the FCC, resulting in grey-skinned men wearing black trenchcoats arriving at your doorstep and carting you and your youngun’s away in a strange limo with no license plates. (Just foolin’!)
DisneyStore.com – Disney Dream Desk PC
Captain Hook could kick that computer’s ass.
Thanks for noticing the Disney Dream Desk!
Believe me, if this product launch is successful, we will definitely look at introducing a Princess version next year.
One note on price: we went to Dell.com to configure a truly comparable system and we found that it would cost $1600 to get something remotely similar to the Disney Dream Desk.
We think that our product is very affordable when you consider what we are offering: enhanced gaming capability, free games, unmatched creative software, a digital pen that lets kids draw on their computers, and best-in-class Internet protection software. The $599 SRP is decidedly on the lower end of the market and well within the range of what most people pay for a new PC today.
If you look closer, I think you will agree that the Disney Dream Desk is a very excellent value for a child’s first PC.
Thanks,
Chris Heatherly
Global GM, Disney Electronics
My kids love this pc and i do to. It does everything they need it to do and looks cute too. I’ve used it to do a number of things, p&c accounts, build websites etc and its coped no problem.
Reccomend it to anyone who isn’t tech savvy like myself