Vtech — Baby’s Learning Laptop

Durability:5.0 out of 5 stars Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars Educational:5.0 out of 5 stars 

The rea­son for this pur­chase is that our lit­tle son has taken a keen inter­est to my lap­top. Essen­tially the unit makes an assort­ment of music and sounds and inter­acts with key­board input. Two vol­ume lev­els are present and we find the lower set­ting to be per­fect as it can get a bit loud on the louder set­ting. There are plenty of voices, sounds, and music so that things do not get too repet­i­tive. There is also a lit­tle mouse that-well-is shaped like a mouse that can be moved up ‚down, left ‚and right with a cor­re­spond­ing voice stat­ing the move­ment. The mouse is attached to the unit and can­not be removed so noth­ing can be lost or swal­lowed. Dura­bil­ity is very good on this item with no small items that can break off or removed for con­sump­tion or chock­ing ( This is of pri­mary con­cern for us as it should be for all). One thing to watch out for and as another reviewer stated is that my boy closes the lid on his fin­gers or hand. Now for some rea­son after he closes the lid he places all of his 8 month old might into ensur­ing it is closed. So I would not walk away and leave him long with it alone as who knows how much pres­sure it takes for him to feel it. So far he has not injured him­self and he has not cried or made any other type of com­mo­tion –yet. Just some­thing to watch out for. I am sure if it really hurt he would stop but I am a para­noid father. EDIT: Well, my boy finally did push too hard and hurt him­self with his fin­ger inside the lid. No dam­age but some­thing to look out for. Now my boy does tend to get bored eas­ily and this item is no dif­fer­ent. In fact now when I open the screen and play with it with him, he just casu­ally reaches over and closes the screen often. I think my wife taught him that so that I would do the same with my own lap­top. The toy itself is great and though no where near the sophis­ti­ca­tion of the real thing it cer­tainly did not cost as much or as dan­ger­ous either (he pulled the L key off my lap­top key­board). Bat­tery life so far is very good with the unit being used every­day for 3 weeks and no sign of weak­ness. This is a relief as some toys eat through bat­ter­ies very quickly and things get costly over time as the good bat­ter­ies are not exactly cheap. We tend to go through 10–15 bat­ter­ies a week in his other items such as rock­ers, toys, etc.. Oh, how I envy him and his sim­ple lap­top; no invest­ments, no news, no emails, no etc.… just lights, music, and sound. Our boy really does enjoy the time with this toy and though he seems now to be more fas­ci­nated with clos­ing the lid than any­thing else there are times he enjoys just slam­ming his fist at the key­board and look­ing up at the screen. Now THAT he did get from daddy!