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Author:  bobbdobbs [ Fri Dec 18, 2009 11:50 am ]
Post subject:  Thai firm flies in early-80s style keyboard PC

clicky

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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


Nostalgia flashback.

Author:  Paul1965 [ Fri Dec 18, 2009 12:59 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Thai firm flies in early-80s style keyboard PC

bobbdobbs wrote:
Nostalgia flashback.


I've always thought this was a great piece of design:
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Author:  timark_uk [ Fri Dec 18, 2009 1:06 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Thai firm flies in early-80s style keyboard PC

Computer in the keyboard FTW!

Mark

Author:  paulzolo [ Fri Dec 18, 2009 2:17 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Thai firm flies in early-80s style keyboard PC

timark_uk wrote:
Computer in the keyboard FTW!

Mark


They were all like that once.

Author:  timark_uk [ Fri Dec 18, 2009 2:17 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Thai firm flies in early-80s style keyboard PC

I know.
I think I had an Amiga 500 (or something) that was like that.

Mark

Author:  MrStevenRogers [ Fri Dec 18, 2009 2:20 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Thai firm flies in early-80s style keyboard PC

here is a review of that hardware with a video
looks interesting and at an amazing price …

http://www.slashgear.com/norhtec-gecko- ... d-1766281/

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