what is this it's got speakers in the
ears like the happiest monitor on earth
this is an actual disney product a little while back i put out a cash
bounty on some pcs from the late 90s with hot wheels or barbie branding and
we actually did get our hands on one and had a ton of fun with it
and then one thing led to another and we ended up here thanks to one of our
viewers and my now considerably lighter wallet i am delighted to have my hands
on another kid-themed family pc from my childhood meet the disney dream desk pc
and the original accessories that came with it it's full of fun and magic for
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the system was released in 2004 exclusively through now defunct
electronics retailer comp usa with the tower itself retailing for 5.99
and the monitor running you an additional 299. there was also a pretty
compelling bundle with a printer stylus and game controller that could be tacked
on for 50 bucks as long as they were purchased with the
rest of the system like with the hot wheels pc this product had a narrow
target market at best because although home pcs were certainly widespread by
the early to mid 2000s families still typically had just one computer to share
so unless mom or dad was an avid fantasia
fan or something it was a pretty tough sell disney's
president said it himself with the launch of the disney dream desk a
computer designed with kids in mind we've developed a toolbox for children
to unleash their imaginations and expand
their minds some big brain
mind expansion certainly took place designing this mouse i can tell you
ladies and gentlemen that much that is not
no that is not ergonomic
how's the stylus pen going here there we go oh
wow got my game controller definitely
very kid-sized game controller here this
thing's a chungus this is too big for media i'm an adult
the one thing we're missing is that there was a rear cover for cable
management and unfortunately we don't have that also our door for the front i
o is taped on and this is all glued together but but it's mostly complete
they still have this lexmark printer
from 2004 in matching blue color scheme
that's right brandon we got one the z618
now it's time to open it up and see what we've got here now
our unit had a pretty rough time in shipping it's a little warped but it's
functional enough for us to do a quick little tear down here now the feet are
actually built into the side panels our front
piece came off
so you can see if you take off one side panel it sits a little crooked so we're gonna
go ahead and pop the other panel off as well okay
there we go got that mickey ventilation you know
this no mickey mouse cooling solution okay
let's get a look at that front i o you got uh that usb universal serial bus
right there microphone headphone jack look at that got it
i'm i'm actually kind of wondering if that writer was added later that's a dvd
writer yeah i know this was manufactured in february 2010. they upgraded this
they were still using this thing in 2010 at least that is a weird power
supply so you got a 92 millimeter fan that draws air in from the pretty robust
mickey mouse ventilation system then it's blowing air out back into the
computer that's a little weird and then also out the back in what looks like
that's a very unusual form factor it's actually kind of a similar layout to
some modern cases like from Corsair you know those double wide ones where all
your storage and power is over on one side and you've got like isolated uh
cooling chambers but then with only a standard width to work with it's made by
fsp so it doesn't surprise me that much that it's lasted this long one thing
that didn't last was the brackets that held on the original cooler so this was
pretty common at the time this was like a p4 style
side panel scoop so you'd pull fresh air directly from outside because you're a
bonehead and you designed your system to exhaust power supply air into the
interior of the case and this is a 478 motherboard so socket 478 actually had
these plastic things that came up around the socket unfortunately they snapped
off in shipping so we just grabbed a star tech
cooler and put some zip ties on it in order to fire this thing up for you guys
RAM is another thing that appears to have been upgraded after the fact
wow so they had 256 they added another 256
now operating in dual channel mode
and then they added another 512 so they could have more memory i got to confess
i am not sure who made this motherboard
it's got kind of an MSI vibe to it but
then it's also got whatever this logo is fi okay so it's made by fic i mean they
managed to use capacitors that haven't leaked after all this time so that's
pretty sweet this is a classic 20 pin atx connector agp graphics weight was
agp current in 2004
yeah agp was still a thing dang really
other than the unusual power supply and motherboard though this is bog standard
commodity oh sorry excuse me top quality components such as the genuine Intel
celeron d processor 330 which delivers
proven Intel technology at a great value
and three-dimensional graphics acceleration and platform technology by
ati technologies inc so in other words
it's got a Radeon 9100 integrated graphics card and a CPU that was already
e-waste when it rolled off the production line in spite of these low-end specs and mid-range price though
a disney rep insisted that the machine's
enhanced gaming abilities and incredible
unmatched free software made it a compelling value it uh
probably didn't i'd give them a b minus for cable management you gotta remember
back in those days it was a lot harder i mean the concept of putting the CPU
power connector along the edge of the board hadn't really been introduced yet
so you had to run this poor thing to the center of the board for all we know the
owner kind of screwed some of it up when they did their memory upgrade oh i
almost didn't even look at storage 40 gigabytes
look look it's a mickey mouse power cord mickey mouse power cord nobody laughs at
my jokes i'm i'm hyper focused on the important
act of plugging things in mr Linus
yeah well clearly i didn't pay you enough to get a cable for the printer
that obviously we need to make sure works because it's there's no power
supply in it well that's okay you know what it still
completes the experience for me so
yay okay our zoomer new writer is like so i
had a hard time getting any audio work can't go did you plug in an audio cable
this don't carry no audio these young kids today brandon that's actually
pretty cool it has a laid up disney logo at the top and then it has its own like
disney mickey mouse splash
screen there not a surface for this to
you just kind of wing-weighing it oh man how i've missed that welcome screen
this is very time capsule-y feeling i mean even
down to enthusiast programs like core temp
remember core temp a half expect to find speed fan on here hold on i gotta search
using the search here you know i was
knocking it before but this mouse is actually surprisingly usable with that
claw grip it's a gaming mouse for gamers now obviously disney had no first-hand
experience building computers so like many brand owners they enlisted a
company called frog design to design this whole system and then for
manufacturing they partnered with medion a german
company that specialized in private label systems which was later acquired
by lenovo in 2011. now one of their selling points on their post was that
the system had an ergonomically designed kid-sized mouse although as we talked
about earlier in practice the ergonomics are questionable at best it's definitely
kid size though just like our mini CPU pillow from lttstore.com so cute
but while the hardware selling points fall
apart under even moderate scrutiny there's still room for the software to
impress us it comes then with a suite of protection tools for blocking spam sites
and emails via content watch which means that parents will enjoy peace of mind
boring by the way no amount of internet protection makes browsing with an xp
machine a good idea these days besides you know that any kid asking for one of
these for christmas only cared about the games disney's extremely goofy
skateboarding loading look at these these are real
three-dimensional graphics they truly are wait i don't have any audio why do i
have any audio look at that you got built-in media
controls baby
i can't believe i didn't take a closer look at this thing disney.com of course
you need a dedicated button for that and parental control button thanks a lot
disney eject oh it works
oh i oh is it done now
nope
choose what type of game you want to play
i think we're gonna have to go for a shred session
oh that's looking pretty good
okay here we go okay
you know i got to give credit for the quality of the sound effects like those
are some legit sounding skateboarding sounds oh oh i gotta grind this oh
he's okay okay um going in the skate park pipe
okay i did a kickflip great thing about goofy being
my character is that he looks exactly as awkward as i feel playing this game i
mean it's no tony hawk pro skater you know but what is
oh no uh
okay
i don't know if i'm convinced about the educational value here
what's definitely educational though is disney's adventures in typing with timon
and pumbaa wow you can tell that game title went through four different
corporate product titling committees for approval let's see if this one's any
good i am Linus i actually have no idea what's going on
right now am i supposed to bop them or something we gotta find us some real
food around here that's great they pulled these sound bites straight out of
the movie i'm gonna slay this thing
there's no penalty for missing so you can kind of game this one
oh it does record the misses
my accuracy is five percent
well that's a shame can you okay can you quit the lesson can
you okay next lesson no that's lesson one
see you later the disney themed madjong game has unfortunately been removed
anyway who wants madjong when you've got a 14-day free membership to toontown
online unfortunately we definitely can't
test that one since the service was discontinued in september of 2013.
is what i would say if a fan community
hadn't reanimated its corpse with a downloadable launcher and community run
servers now we have no idea if this thing is safe to install or use and our
antivirus at the office was not very happy about it but just for you guys we
got some footage of it anyway it's in a nutshell an mmo built for people of all
ages where you create a character and then roam around collecting gags to
defeat cogs which are basically the big scary
corporate people who are trying to take over toontown
it is in a word shockingly active for an mmo that came
out almost 20 years ago it's more than one word but that's okay because we have
another fun thing to try out
disney also emphasized the value of some non-gaming software they included on the
system disney flicks disney pix and disney mix which were aimed at letting
kids create their own drawings pictures and movies now we do have pics here to
try out so okay so it just works on like any
surface you hold it above the surface it's got a little optical sensor in the
end of it i just got to get an eraser here because i
i got a happy little accent
what is the difference between the pencil eraser and the regular eraser
you know what this is kind of hopeless and i suck at drawing anyway so let's
bring in our resident zoomer to see what she makes of this you got okay we got
like a great
this is painful can i not can i thank you do i
i can like select a
oh this is artistry i'm vincent van gogh oh it's beautiful why is the first thing
you draw always nipples
how would you describe the quality of the tracking oh man this beats out any
drawing tablet i've ever used it just knows where i am it it it's so good i
love it oh you can pick colors i could made a brown poop but instead i didn't
because i didn't know the tools in this are clearly endless the possibilities
they're open okay what is this can i do like a what is that noise
when your mom doesn't let you go to the bathroom
we're gonna make like a nice little art piece here we're gonna choose some like
orange is this the german flag oh it's beautiful look at this ocean water so
sunset oh look you can get like little splashes oh yeah see now this is really
going in depth i feel like if i was five this would have been the coolest thing
ever there was nothing like this when i was five this one came out when you were
five well i didn't have it so in my kid mine there was nothing like
this when i was five there's printer paper and pens no no this was a thing it
was just for people whose parents loved them
it's fine i'm just gonna go back into my happy place
it has like scenes and stuff oh i would have loved this
do you wanna do you wanna do something about bud like
okay so your review has five-year-old madison oh i did it
oh my god i love you so much can i play on the the computer after dinner mom
please i want to do on mickey mouse and i want to play in the beach and i want
to pretend to be a pirate okay uh i would have cried if this got
taken away from me so there you have it the disney pc gets
the child seal of approval not for its cold unfeeling plastic and metal heart
but for its cartoon soul i mean yeah even for its time the specs were not
particularly impressive but it certainly
had its charms and when you consider the software package the value was pretty
compelling i sound like a disney representative look it doesn't matter
the point is if you were savvy enough to buy one i can assure you that it's worth
more now than your the faster and
better compact presario that your neighbor kids used to rub in your face
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are you guys okay if you guys enjoyed this video
don't miss the hot wheels pc video where my kids actually tried some of the
classic games that came with that one i think they would have actually liked
this one better like i was all ready to crap on this thing but
the software package it really does you know whatever the disney guy said it
does do that did that thing did do it