Gachapin and Mukku: Bandai uses ugly monsters to design netbook
Bandai in Japan announced a very special kind of netbook, the Gachapin and Mukku ultramobile PC [JP]. Gachapin is the green monster (a dinosaur, actually) and huge on Japanese kids TV, just like his sidekick Mukku, a red Yeti.
The netbook, which reminds me a little of the OLPC, is Japan-only, unfortunately. It’s equipped with an N270 Intel Atom processor (1.60 Ghz), a 120GB HDD, Wifi, a webcam, a One-Seg digital TV tuner with an antenna, a webcam and a 8.9 TFT screen with 1,024×600 resolution.
Bandai will start selling the netbooks (in Gachapin-green only) in March for $880.