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happiest channel on earth now in today's
episode we're going to be taking a look
at the Disney net pal that's right a
Disney laptop from 2009. now it's worth
noting that this right here was not
Disney's first attempt at slapping their
logo on the side of a computer that
occurred back in 2004 with the release
of the Disney Dream desk PC which was a
600 Disney desktop computer but who am I
kidding you've probably seen Linus's
video on that thing already this time
around Disney decided to partner up with
Aces to create a net book back from the
10 minutes when these things were
popular it sold for 350 dollars and came
in two different colors with very Disney
sounding names this right here is the
Blue Magic Disney net pal and right here
we have the princess pink net pal spec
wise they're exactly the same on the
inside they've got an Intel atom running
at 1.6 gigahertz a 160 gigabyte hard
drive and one gigabyte of ram now it's
worth noting too that there was another
model of the Disney net pal that was
released exclusively through Toys R Us
and it basically the only difference
between it is it replaced the 160
gigabyte hard drive with a 16 gigabyte
SSD so in the midst of the Great
Recession if you had 350 dollars to
spare and wanted to buy your kid a
computer well Disney was certainly here
for you now what on Earth could you do
with these things well I mean with them
being netbooks you can browse the web
read email do some light office tasks
but all that sounds pretty boring to
like a seven-year-old what would they
want to do with this well Disney did
include some custom software on here
that we're going to take a look at in a
moment in addition to some themes that
you could use to customize the Windows
XP installation on here yes these things
ran Windows XP pretty typical for
netbooks but I just found that
interesting because the Disney Dream PC
from five years prior also ran Windows
XP so yeah just take with that what you
will now in terms of design the only
difference between This and like your
standard Asus EPC Netbook from this time
in fact these are epcs if I don't bump
the other one here this is an EPC and
Asus certainly sold other epcs with
similar Hardware so the main difference
here really the only difference is
Cosmetics it's just the Disney tax
pretty much you know you've got this
design here with the princess pink one
you've got these flowery things and
hearts and a Disney princess right here
the Blue Magic one looks like they just
slapped a Disney logo on top of a blue
Asus netbooks it looks like really
lazily done but they actually did
Implement a little design by taking the
Mickey Mouse head and kind of making it
this pattern here in the background so
so yeah it's it's something at least but
I mean still this definitely looks more
like just a standard laptop whereas this
one is definitely more colorful and
vibrant now in terms of Port selection
again both of these have the same
Hardware same port selection and all of
that on the left side you've got your
ethernet Jack that's what's hiding
behind here you've got two USB ports and
a microphone and headphone jack and on
the right side you've got an SD card
slot another USB port your lock and you
have a VGA port and your power port
right there now opening this thing up
you'll see that it's going to be your
pretty standard fare here on the inside
although this thing has certainly seen
better days it's missing a lot of keys
and the space bar is really uh jacked up
but yeah you got your track pad which
blends into the Palm rests here and you
see that designed from the front kind of
is in here as well Disney logo right
here where the oh OEM logo usually would
be and then they also for the webcam
implemented a Mickey Mouse emblem there
uh yeah so that's kind of clever
probably the most clever thing on here I
would say so there you go and we'll just
take a look at the inside of the Blue
Magic one as well just to give you a
little bit of a comparison but of course
it's going to be the same exact setup
just with a black bezel instead of a
white one which I personally like a lot
better but I mean I certainly think the
white ones fit in better with the pink
design here and again on the trackpad
and palm rest we've got that same
pattern design from the lid of the
laptop so there you go now interestingly
enough for whatever reason the person
who owned this prior to me it decided to
install Raspberry Pi OS on it they went
specifically with raspberry of iOS so
that's why this is running right now
whereas this one is actually running the
original install of Windows XP with all
of the the software so we're going to be
using it to demo what we have installed
on the hard drive though I will have a
link down below to an image of the
restore CD that somebody very graciously
uploaded to the internet archive so if
you have one of these and are looking to
restore back to factory settings or if
you just want to mess around with it in
a VM feel free to check that out but
yeah let's swap the camera setup and
take a look at our Disney fide Disney
effect whatever Disney Windows XP
modified installation all right now I'll
be honest I was kind of torn between
which of these two computers to use for
the software demo portion here and I
decided on the pink one because not only
is there a copy of XP installed with all
that Disney OEM software but also
because this was used by somebody
there's user accounts on here they
installed some additional programs and
so I thought it'd be kind of cool just
to explore this a bit and see what
somebody was using this laptop or this
Netbook 4. I know I could have just
restored the other one running Linux
from that factory image that I talked
about and perhaps we'll do that in a
future video and go through that process
if you guys want to see that be sure to
let me know but evidently somehow this
copy of super Optimizer got installed on
here which is one of these like oh my
God look at all these problems you have
on your PC pay us to fix them program
and all these are just like really like
oh my God like invalid shortcuts no way
and then you fix it now and I'm sure
it's gonna you have to register it and
let's see how much this thing costs it's
probably going to want to open up a web
page here look at that we got Google
Toolbar as well this thing keeps showing
up in these videos I don't know what it
is man but yeah so we got Google Toolbar
some of these programs will actually fix
the problems but it's it's just scare
aware to get you to pay for stuff that
you don't need but anyways we'll just
quit out of it for now and I found this
hilarious I have to think that this was
this kid's parent and the kid installed
Minecraft on here and they were playing
it so much that the parents just renamed
the Minecraft icon do not play or maybe
the kid renamed it because they were
bored of Minecraft and didn't know how
to you know remove the icon I don't know
but yeah I just found that really funny
I think I'm just gonna make a new user
account here for myself just so uh that
we can kind of start fresh here yeah I
know what I said earlier in this clip
but I would like to see if Windows XP
does anything different when you create
a new user kind of log into it for the
first time see if there's any like
Disney Pizzazz or something that happens
so these are the default icons that uh
come on the desktop and here is the
default desktop wallpaper which you'd
think would go pretty well with the blue
color if we go into properties here and
go to desktop it is called net pal
window default wallpaper so yeah really
really great name there Asus also
bundled a bunch of their EPC wallpapers
as well so let's see if we can find one
here that maybe goes with the pink a
little bit better
um I guess we go with this white pattern
Maybe be yeah that I think I guess that
kind of works really with anything so
yeah there you go and some of these
programs like Malwarebytes anti-malware
and Google Chrome did not come
pre-installed they were installed by the
previous user but yeah there was
definitely a ton of programs in here and
what we're most interested in here to
start off with is hyperdesk from the
Skins Factory you see we have two
separate themes one for each of the
colors so we're just gonna go with the
pink one in this case and when you apply
the theme it will apply the well the
theme itself which will take effect on
things like the start menu taskbar
window titles all that stuff you've got
custom icons and the wallpaper which I
think if we go to options here oh I
never mind there is a pink wallpaper
there it is so we will just apply that
yeah I gotta say this is a pretty nice
theme here I mean we'll go to like my
documents and you can take a look at the
various icons and how they modified the
title bars and everything they also
centered the window titles is a nice
touch in addition to that we do have
some icons from Disney on the desktop as
well we've got two web shortcuts to
disney.com and to their online game site
we have parental controls which we'll
touch on in a moment we also have Radio
Disney which as far as I can tell just
plays Radio Disney on your computer so
it's a little player here you can change
through some skins and like oh look at
that you can also send a shout out as
well assuming this even still works
we're not on the internet right now but
uh yeah so you could apparently type out
a submission here and submit that and
assuming we were on your information has
been sent no it has and we're not on the
internet freaking okay we'll get
out of that and yeah so parental
controls this ties into the I would say
the main Suite of Disney programs that
they've bundled on here and that is
magic Desktop now the parental controls
portion of that appears to be just a
rebranded version of this easy bits
program and this is just like an info
panel I don't even know why it's really
on here because it just literally tells
you this is like going to help and about
in a program it just says this is what
it is here's the build number view the
license agreement and close that's it
because you actually get to all the
parental controls settings through this
magic Desktop program so we're going to
launch this right now now when I
launched this off camera this thing
takes over your entire desktop and it
actually locks you out from opening up
task manager like you can't close this
program without going into the close
option that it has what I did there
that's like me pressing the Windows key
which is interesting because you see how
that flies out doesn't this look like
the charms menu from Windows 8 I can't
press Ctrl alt delete I can't alt tab I
can't do Ctrl shift Escape can I do
Windows key L okay I can do that at
least so I can still lock the computer
but yeah there is this menu down here
okay preset password to zero is zero
zero zero wait a second no freaking way
that's the windows is this a new version
of this or something oh yeah okay so
this is an updated version this was
released in 2016. yeah that makes a lot
more sense because I was saying to
myself there's no way they got all those
UI elements right years before Microsoft
officially implemented them in Windows I
just heard the word magic in magic
Desktop and thought this had to be a
piece of Disney software because they
used the word magic in everything but no
this is just its own thing you can
probably download it right now assuming
this company is still around the promo
controls thing here that brings up this
about dialogue actually says that it's a
Disney branded version of the inspirous
platform from Easy bits which I assume
is the predecessor to magic Desktop here
and this was the company that Disney
chose to partner with to create the
parental control stuff for the net pal
here and it's not like that was anything
unique to this there were a ton of
companies that had Parental Control
software in fact Microsoft implemented
it in windows with Windows Vista yeah
there are some other Disney pieces of
software if we go to all programs and go
to the Disney folder we've got mix
Central and pix 3.1 now mix Central was
this is like a music focused program I
think it's a media player actually yeah
so you got music images videos let's uh
go to Just sample music here so we'll go
to my music and we'll import our songs
here and so yeah we can just double
click on this or I guess just click on
it once click here Play song can't play
a whole lot of it because Content ID
would be on me pretty fast there so yeah
the best way I can describe this it's
like Disney's iTunes because there's
also a store built into it where you can
go to browse for like Disney songs and I
Believe TV show episodes and and clips
and that sort of thing to where you can
just buy that and then you can consume
that content right from here but yeah
yeah then you can also enter like a mini
mode here so just like Windows Media
Player had you know you can shrink it
down and can you resize this at all I
guess you can so that's as small as it
will go and of course being dizzy they
have to implement Mickey Mouse into like
practically everything so the seat
controls over here or the you know
previous and next song and the play and
pause button is in the shape of a Mickey
Mouse head and then you've got Disney
pix 3.1
got some nice intro animations going on
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designed in a very similar way to that
media player programs you've got the
same like option menu up here how you
switch between different modes so edit
picks albums and then this is bobble
head oh so you can create okay yeah what
if you have to mess around with this a
little bit here so let's actually try to
create a oh gosh everything is so
freaking large it's like all these icons
here but let's import something we'll
just go to my pictures here and
well you just import the entire folder
is there anything in my pictures I mean
there should be yeah I mean it's not
even showing up as like a folder that we
can expand yeah what's that about can
you only import certain file types
I mean but these are what like jpegs
right they're jpegs why what why can't
we open that up in here all right well I
think what I'll do is just open up Ms
paint here let's open up the sunset and
then we will save that as a bitmap to
our desktop there we go so I've got the
bitmap of the sunset sample picture
imported in here let's just start here
with oh gosh what do we want to do let's
let's import some text here or add some
text rather you've got a list of fonts
here oh look at this scroll bar that's
so freaking tiny please tell me that you
can
oh my gosh so you can't actually start
typing out the name of the font that you
want like you can in a standard Windows
dialog so we got to scroll down here and
then we gotta find the font that we want
not that one can we at least do the
arrow key up we can't do that either all
right so look what is that I'm like
selecting I'm right here oh that is
really obnoxious that's really bad look
at that
that's okay whatever we're just going to
select that we got a slider here we can
make it like yeah 69 yeah that'll be
pretty nice so we'll type out our our
font you know hello world I think we
just click off of it and then okay we
can resize it here and move it around so
we definitely want to increase that oh
look at that that's amazing oh isn't
that beautiful we can rotate it a little
bit let's go with a colorize oh yeah
there we go that's that's amazing okay
and then maybe we'll change some of
these attributes as well yeah I think
that's looking like a beautiful image so
I think we're ready to save that so
let's save this masterpiece oh we have
to export it that's right so we just
saved it like in this collection here in
the program so we can open this back up
definitely want to go with high location
and we'll just do it on the desktop
that's fine export it there and there we
go there's our Masterpiece and it saves
it as a JPEG what is that now can we
open this up because if it can't open an
image that it itself exported that is
about the dumbest thing that I've ever
seen in my life okay so it's definitely
something with the sample photo uh that
it just does not like because again I
mean I can go maybe it's with it being
in the my pictures folder I don't know
like let me try to or no well I already
made a copy of it right on the desktop
or no I don't think I did because that's
the one that we modified and it will
opened up with pain and then you know
saved and everything so go to my
pictures and then just drag like Blue
Hills out to the desktop here oh there
it is so it's just because it's in the
sample pictures folder or in my pictures
and then inside the sample pictures
directory inside of that that's really
odd because you can't like I'm double
clicking on this I can't get inside of
it it doesn't show any options over here
I can't expand the folder like the
documents here you know I can expand
that there's a folder in here I can't
expand that so for whatever reason it
doesn't like pictures in my pictures
which is where you would save pictures
to usually okay that doesn't really make
any sense all right so last but not
least let's see what this bobble head
thing is because I'm really curious
about this so you can pick either a
video or a postcard to customize so
let's just go with video I guess oh I
see so it's putting your face in the
video or in the postcard so select the
head you'd like to use oh I guess we
have to make a head down here so we
don't have any photos of people on here
so we're just gonna pick like we're just
gonna pick the Blue Hills sample photo
here and we'll say like that that's the
head and then we'll uh cut it I guess
and yep there we go that's the head we
cut out select the chin and the bottom
lip Okay so this is gonna allow the
mouth to oh my gosh this is going to be
amazing okay that's fine we'll finish
and then we have to do that with three
of them you can see how this program can
be just abused to do things that it was
probably never designed to do so what do
we do do we drag them up here like how
do you
um how do you get them because okay you
just have to double click on them so I
don't want this one so we'll select that
one and that one and then hit next and
oh my gosh you can customize it with
accessories oh no oh gosh okay so let's
just do that let's get this like
birthday party hat thing and we'll get
these
these sunglasses oh my gosh this is so
bad and then for the last one
okay that's all the way to the right on
this list here so we'll go all the way
to the left let's see what we got okay
so we got some more sunglasses here
we're definitely going to grab those you
know what I think we're just gonna go
with that we're just gonna pop the
sunglasses on there
oh my gosh oh it has to install
something for it to actually work okay
the installer just says Disney picks 3.1
so I assume it's a component of it that
it didn't install by default oh no so
it's like so it is playing music this is
the most ridiculous thing that I've ever
all right we're just gonna pause that
I'm not sure if that music is
copyrighted or not but we're absolutely
saving that let's just export that
Masterpiece there so yeah that's just
one of the video templates there were a
bunch in there and I can hear the fans
spinning up oh my gosh I wonder what
let's do a control shift Escape here I'm
curious what our performance is looking
like this thing is oh yeah that CPU is
being maxed out
there we go you know what this reminds
me of those Windows desktop dancers like
a hundred percent I mean just seeing
them dance around in this video here is
is what made me think of that so we'll
close out of that and let's maybe do
another one just before we end off this
video I'd like to do the postcard thing
so I assume it's going to be like the
same process just with a still image
instead of a video so what's this one
here love oh boy this is going to be
amazing okay so select the love one and
we'll we'll pick these two here and we
can customize them again so you know
we'll put like the sunglasses on this is
about the best like I don't know whose
idea it was to make this but this
definitely has some potential I think to
be a meme or something just having
people go in here and making all sorts
of just ridiculous looking faces because
you can use any image obviously you
don't have to use a face of somebody you
can just take a like a static image of a
scenery like the sample photos here and
then it just oh my really Disney you
have to put your copyright info in here
come on that's really obnoxious now wait
a second can you play it
is there a motion I wouldn't think there
is I mean nothing's happening I don't
know what exactly that's here for
because it's just a postcard I guess
maybe they didn't bother to remove these
controls from the postcard creation and
they just left it in here but we can
save this and this should save a lot
faster than the video so let's just
export it and yeah there we go already
done so we'll open it up in Windows
Explorer here and there we go so this is
the photo we can zoom in on in here so
there's I love you is that what it says
up at the top yeah I love you with these
oh my God this is so good but like this
is the most freaking Disney of course
classic Disney having to put their
freaking logo and copyright text over
everything do they have it on the video
here let's see no they didn't look at
that there's nothing there so it's them
just like standing in front of a brick
wall with graffiti on it and just
bopping around I guess having a good
time
and I'm sure it would look much better
if you actually took it seriously and
put faces of real people on it but you
know I wonder what resolution this is
I'm guessing I mean it kind of looks
like it's 360p oh there it is 800 by 600
and it's 45 seconds long
1163 kilobits per second and it's just
over six megabytes in size but yeah so
that's the bobble head functionality in
Disney picks which is definitely my
favorite uh thing in here and that
pretty much wraps it up for the Disney
net pal Netbook thing that exists and I
pretty much knew I had to talk about it
when I discovered this so thank you to
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