Quote: NorhTec reckons it's fine for basic web browsing, email and instant messaging duties. Crucially, it's a very low-power part able, it's claimed, consuming just 5W.
The Surfboard has 512MB of DDR 2 memory on board, plus an unspecified hard drive, pair of USB 2.0 ports, 10/100Mb/s Ethernet, SD card reader, VGA, and composite-video for connecting it to a telly.
All the ports are round the back
The notion of which brought back fond nostalgic thoughts of the Sinclair Spectrum, though NorhTech's Gecko Surfboard more closely resembles the Acorn Atom and Electron than their rival.
In addition to the Linux version, NorhTec will offer a Windows XP model for $150 | 
