In a brilliant move which will catapult it into the realms of Apple-like profit margins, Dell has teamed up with Nickelodeon to bring us the Inspiron Mini Nickelodeon Edition. Apparently, it takes “personalization to new heights.”
And it does, if you consider “new heights” to be slapping a slime-green paint-job on an existing netbook (the Mini 10v) and pre-loading the hard drive with some games, widgets and installing parental controls (in the form of a custom interface by Stardock).
Given that most kids learn their way around a computer much faster than their parents, we wonder if Dell should perhaps swap things around and give this simplified machine to the oldies instead. Still, that gloopy-green cover graphic will give the onlooking parents a safe, warm glow inside as the kids hack the thing to look for rude words and pictures of boobies. Available October, along with a Spongebob edition.
Press release [Dell]
