world's most child-friendly PC aw it's so tiny

[Youbetternot]

Look it's a cute Friendly PC, oh it has 1.2 ghz.

No-one said monitoring your child's online activity was easy. Going behind their back and checking their browser history after the fact is one way of doing it, but it's retroactive and tends to lack important information. And you can't quite look over their shoulder and watch their usage all the time.

 

Solving this dilemma is at the heart of the MiiPC eco-system. The MiiPC is a standalone mini PC powered by a 1.2GHz processor and 4GB of storage running Android 4.2. It has a smattering of slots including USB, SD and HDMI, and has been designed as a low-cost computer that works with any screen, keyboard and mouse you connect to it.

Song has a long and successful history in the computing world. He was the founder of eMachines, which was eventually sold to Gateway for $262 million in 2004, before becoming part of Acer in 2007.

His MiiPC setup is the latest release in a 20-year career and was one of the darlings of Kickstarter earlier this year, making its $50,000 bid price within 24 hours.

 

Learn more here: Tiny cute PC

[ooiman92]

How would this compare to the Gigabyte Brix?

 

Edit: Oh this runs Android.

[Lord Pantaloons]

This is a good idea, I would give this to non tech savvy people who wanted a PC because it would be very difficult to f**k up like a normal PC would be.

[CoolBeans]

Not child friendly, children play games, this wouldn't really run any games

[Mooshi]

Not child friendly, children play games, this wouldn't really run any games

Still better than the 2DS.

[Cacao]

This is a good idea, I would give this to non tech savvy people who wanted a PC because it would be very difficult to f**k up like a normal PC would be.

Chromebook!

[Mooshi]

This would also make for a nice PC for someone's parent or grandparent that only uses their machine to Facebook and email.

[Wesley]

I've found Tablets have always worked better for the non tech person as they only wanna be on it for a few minutes and when i tell them they won't be able to use it on a couch its a deal breaker for them

[ObeseWalrus]

I see that this is a nice cheap thing for kids but I would rather give them a chromebook until they're old enough to not fuck up a windows machine.

[Lord Pantaloons]

Chromebook!

Yes but people(especially non techies and children) will treat a Chromebook like they would treat a laptop which is to say harshly. There is no conceivable reason for someone to remove one of these from where ever it was placed so that would eliminate one of the potential ways they could muck it up

[XzzDSA]

I see that this is a nice cheap thing for kids but I would rather give them a chromebook until they're old enough to not fuck up a windows machine.

(So at what age do you see this happening? I'm 18, and I still fuck over my windows )

[kuddlesworth9419]

Child Friendly........until you throw it at a kid.

[techswede]

it's not a pc. it's a mii (mario)

so this is supposed to be some kind of babys first pc?
 

[ObeseWalrus]

(So at what age do you see this happening? I'm 18, and I still fuck over my windows )

You fuck your windows up in a qualified manner as you can fix it yourself, but I see it happening at about 12.

[Xorbot]

Why so angry, bro? (re: appearance of face on the front)

[mgsstar]

Funny that they switched the speakers and mic port colors. Nice that it is running Android 4.2. Hope it will be upgraded to 4.3 later.

[TopWargamer]

Anybody know how much this will cost? I didn't see a price in the article...

[Guest]

Not child friendly, children play games, this wouldn't really run any games

this is good cuz if i went round to every child that lives in my london im sure 13/20(might be slight overestimate) dont actually play games on the pc

they are all to busy playing fifa on the ps3 and xbox or dont play games

[CoolBeans]

this is good cuz if i went round to every child that lives in my london im sure 13/20(might be slight overestimate) dont actually play games on the pc

they are all to busy playing fifa on the ps3 and xbox or dont play games

I mean games like Runescape which probably couldn't run on this

[Guest]

I mean games like Runescape which probably couldn't run on this

lol i remember that game it was a long time ago

i want to see if my accounts are still there now =P

 

my cousin gave me his account with like 1billion gold coins 

[Guest]

holy shit the game is different its called runescape 3 and they have a desktop client 

 

damm i cant wait till it loads 

 

edit*

 

it loaded andd the t5450 is running the game shit as hell and it looks the same as it used to be

[LOLPhilips]

A fun idea and all, but a overall rubbish PC if you ask me.. But I do probably have an entirelly different use case then those willing to buy something like this

[JAKEBAB]

ok so it has a 1.2ghz cpu and 4gb of storage seriously? whats stopping me from buying an android tablet that is portable has a touch screen that u can plug a mouse and keyboard in and install the app that lets u remote shut down? seriously i would rather get my kids a real pc and them play for however long than buy this crap if your kids playing to long tell them to get off its not hard to see them go in there room for however long then when its been long enough go in there room and say come out or dc them from the internet with your router

[squirrl]

Why are the speaker and mic ports the wrong colours?