Children's netbook Gachapin & Mukku

Gachapin is a five-year-old dinosaur from the Japanese series. Mukku is his buddy Bigfoot. Gachapin & Mukku is a children's netbook developed by Kohjinsha and Bandai.

Kohjinsha is a fairly well-known UMPC manufacturer in Japan, and therefore it is not surprising that the toy manufacturer Bandai turned to this company for help. The poisonous green fruit of their joint work is distinguished by the most averaged parameters preinstalled by the child interfaces for Windows XP, as well as an extremely interesting price.



First about the parameters. Gachapin & Mukku netbooks are based on their popular Kohjinsha ML series and retain all the advantages and disadvantages of the “original. The cars are built on the basis of the standard Intel Atom N270 with a frequency of 1.6 GHz, equipped with the standard 1 GB of RAM and a 160 GB hard drive. The diagonal of the display is 8.9 inches, the resolution is 1024 by 600 pixels. The dimensions of the netbook are 28x187x22-33 mm, weight - about 1.15 kg.

The software package includes a set of thematic interfaces that were developed by Bandai specialists specifically for a young audience. Children's options are bright and funny, on the one hand they simplify access to drawing programs, a media player, a database of photos and a TV tuner, but at the same time they limit the possibilities of interference with the system’s fine-tuning. Logging in with administrator rights is supposedly available separately and only to parents.

Very interesting is the price of a netbook. One netbook sells for 80,000 yen ($ 890). For comparison, the “original” Kohjinsha ML without children's themes and acid coloring costs 20 thousand yen cheaper ($ 670). Truly children are a gold mine for developers.



Via akihabaranews.com