The only issue I have with this toy is that I really wish they had designed more of the games to work with the keyboard and not rely so much on the mouse. The age range suggests 3+ but there is a ton for our barely 2 year old to love on this thing - but the mouse makes it tough for her to work with it. I think if there were arrows (up/down/side to side) or more games that interactively involved asking them to use the letters and numbers then I think she would be on it non-stop (perhaps for the best she's not!) We'll keep working with it because there does seem to be a ton of other potential with it.

This laptop is a big disappointment for me. As a parent of a 4 year old I find this a poor choice at any age. The keyboard has the letters ordered across in alphabetical order, not as real keyboards are. This I strongly feel is going to confuse children of 3 years or up for their future use of computers. This perhaps is okay for children 18 months to no older than 36 months. Mouse also is not accurate but works. The graphics are very poor as others stated and difficult to see since not lit at all. Even the audio is poor. It is garbled enough that we cannot determine if the man said c,e,b or d because you it all sounds the same just something eeee. Cannot tell if it is bah eee, da eee, sss eee etc.
Not something I would recommend for child of any age.

I finally opened this Christmas present up to familiarize myself with it before giving it to its intended owner. Now, I'm returning it.

It was intended for a young child who is already familiar with letters and numbers, but not yet at reading and math. He loves using a keyboard just like his parents do. I'd talked myself into the small screen and I regret it. I'd hoped a small screen would mean that at least what they displayed was a decent resolution. But these visuals are about what you'd expect from a digital watch earned through cereal boxtops. In addition, the 31 activities are all highly guided and very limited, with unpleasant noises anytime a wrong selection is made. There are a few activities that approached 'fun' by emulating more popular, known-to-be-fun games, but for the most part it's dull single-answer quiz questions, where correct answers are rewarded by an awful, nearly-incomprehensible animation of a dancing squirrel.

All it would have taken for me to approve of this product was a segment where my child could type random letters in and be told what they were, or experiment with typing words of his own choosing, or choose a number and have that number of items appear. Those modes do not exist; everything present save the tacked on music mode requires the child to respond to the toy's demands rather than the toy respond to the child's. Thus, the interactivity of the toy is very, very small. Of course, even if those modes did exist, the toy would have been hard-pressed to compete with a bland text editor on a basic computer because of how hard it was to see what was supposed to happen on the screen.

I just bought this for my grandson as his "big" Christmas present...then saw the same toy for $20 less at Target today. Very disappointing--I thought amazon.com was competitively priced. I guess not.

perfect christmas gift for my toddler who loves to play with computers. he's gonna love it!