Disney Netpal By Asus: Creative Fun With Safety

The Disney Netpal is going to be an exciting holiday gift for children ages 6-12 this year. It's made by Asus, one of the biggest makers of laptops. And it's not a toy computer. It's a full working netbook with 8.9" screen. The tech specs for the Disney Netpal is the same as most conventional netbooks. Specifically, it has 1.6 GHz Atom Intel Processor, 160 GB hard disk, 1 GB RAM, wireless access, and Win XP.

Children will truly enjoy the Disney Netpal by Asus. It comes in two colors, Princess Pink and Magic Blue. It's desktop can be set up with choices of up to 10 design themes of Disney characters. The themes, which are exclusively available for the Disney Netpal, include Cars, Disney Fairies, Vintage Mickey Mouse, Toy Story, Jonas Brothers, and many others.

There are applications that come with the Disney Netpal that will entertain a child for a long time. The Disney Mix is a music application that lets children make their own playlist. The older kids will really enjoy the Disney Mix especially if they're avid followers of Hannah Montana and the Jonas Brothers.

The Disney Pix is another program that comes with the Disney Netpal. It teaches kids how to edit pictures while having fun. For example, kids will be able to paste in their faces on other characters and create their own dancing scene. They can make other type of scenes as their creative minds allow. Additionally, they can share their creative works as videos or as postcards. If a child is creative and imaginative enough, he or she can have a portfolio at a very early age.

Since the Disney Netpal is designed for use by kids, Asus and Disney made sure that a few considerations are covered. After all, kids are kids and delicate electronic devices are not always safe with them as main users. For example, kids spill a lot. And we know that spills and splashes, not necessarily from children, have destroyed laptops and computers before. Hence, the Disney Netpal has a spill-proof keyboard as standard.

Children also drop things often. Some of them throw things when they're excited. Well, I'm not sure how strong the Disney Netpal is, but it comes with reinforcement to avoid (maybe mitigate is the right word) impact loss. In fact, it has a ShockShield Data Protection system that should protect from data loss caused by the Disney Netpal getting bumped too hard or getting dropped.

As mentioned earlier, the Disney Netpal is a full blown netbook. Meaning that children can use it to go online and do things over the web. And with that, there are spreading issues over safety in Internet activities. The Disney Netpal has mechanism letting parents configure what content their children can see or which software their children can use. The parents are also able to control when and how long the Disney Netpal can be used by their kids. And finally, parents are able to create a list that their children can send and receive emails.

The Disney Netpal is looking quite like the right gift for the right child. It's not a toy, but a fun early learning device with safety features that could help in stirring a young creative mind.

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