PeeWee, the child-resistant laptop

PeeWee PC is splash-resistant and has a swiveling touchscreen display: ingredients that make it perfect, all other things assumed present, for the wee ones. From the blurb:

PeeWee PC loads each Pivot Tablet Laptop with 10 age appropriate software and game titles for Pre-K, Early Elementary, or Upper Elementary students. PeeWee also includes its proprietary security suite on each laptop, giving parents full control of how and when their children use the laptop. The PeeWee security software allows parents to limit how much time their children spend browsing the internet (on a daily or weekly basis), block inappropriate sites with any version of any web browser, take screen shots, view browsing history, and even control the laptop remotely.

It's otherwise a regulation netbook, and $600.

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Cupertino's tablet netbook: just a concept?

Illustrated by MacFormat's Adam Benton, this mockup strikes me as convincingly conservative -- but only if you accept the proposition that Apple would make it at all. I've been imagining something similar, but even smaller.

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