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Master of Gizmo is offline Master of Gizmo
2011-04-12 , 13:24
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Originally Posted by kurtis View Post
I just bought a touch-screen, tough book laptop for my 2 year old son. He can't use mice but he's great with touch screens. I'm basically just trying to set it up so he can easily watch his cartoons. Nothing too fancy.
Since you are asking for advise: Sell the laptop and buy him some legos, some finger paint and paper. $125 will give you plenty of better toys than a computer to have him watch cartoons.

That won't "mute" your son like a cartoon playing laptop does and you'll have to spend time _with_ him instead of spending time setting up computers _for_ him.

And yes, i have kids ...
 

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tele is offline tele
2011-04-12 , 13:31
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Originally Posted by Master of Gizmo View Post
Since you are asking for advise: Sell the laptop and buy him some legos, some finger paint and paper. $125 will give you plenty of better toys than a computer to have him watch cartoons.

That won't "mute" your son like a cartoon playing laptop does and you'll have to spend time _with_ him instead of spending time setting up computers _for_ him.

And yes, i have kids ...
are you serious?
todays generation are more into technology and entertainment not toys!
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2011-04-12 , 16:13
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are you serious?
todays generation are more into technology and entertainment not toys!
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onebutton is offline onebutton
2011-08-05 , 17:30
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Originally Posted by tele View Post
are you serious?
todays generation are more into technology and entertainment not toys!
Computers are their toys, it's that simple. I walked in to my office the other day and my daughter was absolutely enthralled with my email marketing software. She had uploaded a video of Justin Beiber and seriously almost sent it to my entire client base. I hope that gives you guys a pretty good idea of why I think this, ha.
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Hurrian is offline Hurrian
2011-08-06 , 01:57
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Originally Posted by Master of Gizmo View Post
That won't "mute" your son like a cartoon playing laptop does and you'll have to spend time _with_ him instead of spending time setting up computers _for_ him.
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Contrary to your experience, Legos actually muted my son, except for when he was shuffling the stack around to look for parts. Oh, and kids play nice and quiet alone with Legos.

OTOH, my daughter cannot STFU about her friends and games on Facebook.

wrt cartoons, I have a laptop with Ubuntu 11.04+Unity hooked up to a 32" HDTV running cron and lirc to download and play shows.[/OFFTOPIC]
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This is getting off-topic. Wasn't there a MeeGo Reference Tablet Edition for x86 being passed around at MeeGo.com?[/ONTOPIC]
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