Gecko EduBook – Announced netbook costing less than $ 200 with AA battery power

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According to the source, the company announced the release NorhTech Gecko EduBook netbook Gecko EduBook, which will is powered by eight AA size batteries. Argued that the nickel-metallogidridnyh Battery EduBook can develop up to four hours. If you use a lithium-ion batteries, the time is increased to six hours. 

NorhTech Gecko EduBook
Netbook will be equipped with a screen size of 8.9-inch diagonal WSVGA resolution (1024 x 600 pixels) with LED backlight. 

NorhTech Gecko EduBook
In the configuration of the computer processor will Xcore86 Device on Chip, operating at a frequency of 1 GHz, the integrated graphics processor, 256, 512 or 1024 MB RAM DDR2 (the processor and memory are located on the change of the board as shown in the lower picture, which provides an opportunity to modernize). To store the information you can use the card format SD, flash drive with an IDE or 2.5-inch hard drive size. Network Adapter will provide connectivity 10/100Base-T Ethernet LAN. In addition, netbook be equipped with a connector VGA (D-Sub), stereo speakers, three port USB 2.0 (one more internal USB port is reserved for connecting the module Wi-FI, GPRS, CDMA, 3G or 3.5G). 

The manufacturer promises that the price of netbook in basic configuration, with OS Ubuntu Remix (also stated support for other versions of Linux and Windows XP), not to exceed $ 200. 

The official premiere Gecko EduBook expected at Computex.

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