Posted on: Sunday, August 8, 2004

Disney creates a 'dream desk PC' for children

Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — The Walt Disney Co. has added a personal computer and flat-screen monitor to its lineup of consumer electronics products.

It even comes with a mouse.

The computer, which also comes with games, a digital pen and a drive that plays both CDs and DVDs, joins a television, DVD player, clock radio, cordless phone and other products the company has introduced over the past two years.

The computer will retail for $599 with the monitor sold separately for $299.

The "Disney Dream Desk PC" was was designed by frog design and will be made by Germany's Medion AG, a large private label maker of personal computers.

The Windows PC comes with a number of Disney applications including Disney Flix, Disney Pix and Disney Mix pre-installed, which allow children to draw, edit pictures, create music and make simple movies. Exclusive to the PC, Disney's Flix, Pix and Mix applications are designed to work together.

The computer also comes with Disney video games and a 14-day free membership to the company's MMOPRG, ToonTown.

It also comes with the Intel Celeron D Processor 330, Microsoft XP, Microsoft Works and with Content Protect internet filtering, and E-mail Protect e-mail filtering.