Product Description

Preschoolers will laugh and learn a lot with their very own kid-sized laptop. Through engaging activities, they'll build key academic skills like phonics, upper and lowercase letters, letter recognition, and letter order. Features three modes: Letters, Phonics Fun Mouse Game and Tunes. A green backlit LCD display makes the screen interesting and fun for kids. Requires 3 "AA" batteries (included). Measures 8" x 10.75" x 8.25".

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2566 in Toys & Games
• Brand: Fisher-Price
• Model: J6665
• Dimensions: 13.10" h x 12.50" w x 5.70" l, 2.70 pounds

Features

• It’s a laptop just for kids—full of learning along with laughter!
• Helps preschoolers build key academic skills like phonics, upper and lowercase letters, letter recognition and letter order
• Kids touch the laptop’s keys to play notes from the scale, fun musical riffs and entire musical pieces
• 3 Modes: Letters, Phonics Fun Mouse Game and Tunes
• Kids can even check e-mail on their very own laptop, hear music and sounds, enjoy exciting animation on the light-up screen, and discover fun surprises!

From the Manufacturer
The, phonics Laptop helps preschoolers build key academic skills like phonics, upper and lowercase letters, letter recognition and letter order. It comes with a pong game that adds to the fun. The Green backlit LCD display makes the screen interesting. It’s a laptop just for kids—full of learning along with laughter! Discover letters and phonics, enjoy delightful games, explore cool mazes, play music, and make friends with a silly character. From beginners to advanced players, kids will have fun learning letters, phonics and mouse skills through various levels of game play. They can even check e-mail, hear music and sounds, enjoy exciting animation on the light-up screen, and discover fun surprises! Requires 3 “AA” (LR6) alkaline batteries (not included).

Customer Reviews

2-year-old tired of it quickly
We received this as a 2-year birthday gift. When my son gets something new that he likes, he doesn't put it down for days. His interest in this lasted about 10 minutes. We are returning it, and will try a different computer-like toy.

The mouse is difficult to use, and personally I think having the upper- and lowercase letters on the same button is distracting. The screen is really small, and the top/cover snaps to a 90-degree angle and about a 45-degree angle, so he could never quite see it properly when sitting on his lap. Once, he lay on the floor to see the screen. That alone was enough for me to reject it--I hope to find one with an infinitely adjustable cover, like my own laptop.

He has a similar toy without a screen, the Alphabet Apple by V-Tech, which amuses him for a good 30 minutes in the car. If the "Laughtop" had cost $11.99, I'd be more forgiving, but for the price I expect more.

Helpful Learning Toy and Entertaining
My 3 y.o. son got this as a gift three days ago and he LOVES it. He likes that he can choose the games himself and I notice that he's even begun to really recognize letters already. My only complaint is that the "mouse" is difficult to operate and it can be frustrating for him while playing the games that require him to use the mouse (fortunately, not all the games do need the mouse). I'm hoping that with use it will loosen up.

She enjoys it!
My almost 3 year old has autism and she really enjoys this toy even though some of the features are advanced for her right now. For example the two games that you can play with the mouse, a "pong" style and the maze game are beyond her now but she'll have that new discovery in the future.
With the two screen positions she can see fine and I can see the screen even when she's in the floor a distance away. It's not too small and it is intense enough to be acceptable for play. She really enjoys the "raining letters" game where they fall from the clouds and you must push the corresponding letter on the keyboard so the onscreen one drops in the water bucket. All the games have several levels of difficulty.
The feature she enjoys the best is the composer setting where you can play it like a keyboard and there are visuals to match onscreen.
She does not become bored easily with this toy and it was worth the price and is durable and portable.