The Gecko Surfboard

December 18, 2009 2 Comments

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NorhTec, who brought us the Pad Tablet and the Gecko EduBook, have now come out with the Gecko Surfboard, a computer in a keyboard. You have heard of these before; perhaps the Amstrad computers or the Commodore 64, and lately, the Asus Eee Keyboard.

However, what makes this different from say, the Eee Keyboard, is its price. It only costs $99.

It’s core runs on the super efficient Xcore86 1Ghz processor which only needs 5 watts of power to operate. Sure, you may not be able to run the latest action games on it, but it will be more than enough for web browsing. It also comes with 512MB of system memory, a VGA and composite ports for hooking up to a TV or spare computer monitor, 10/100 network, 802.11b/g for wireless, standard microphone and headphone ports and 2x USB ports.

It can run on Linux or Windows XP and can boot from a 2.5 inch IDE hard drive or a SD/SDHC drive. Watch out for it at CES 2010 and for it to be shipped early January 2010.

Via netbooked.

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  • http://www.johnrockefeller.net/ John Rockefeller

    I’d love to have one of these. And at $99 it’s such a steal.

    I’m drooling!!

  • http://ipod-in-car.blogspot.com szemi

    I’d like to have one of these, but January is already over, and I still can not buy it:(


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