{"id":148961,"date":"2010-01-07T08:00:39","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T13:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/2010\/01\/07\/norhtech-gecko-netbook-reviewed-small-slow-video\/"},"modified":"2010-01-07T08:00:39","modified_gmt":"2010-01-07T13:00:39","slug":"norhtech-gecko-netbook-reviewed-small-slow-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/148961","title":{"rendered":"NorhTech Gecko netbook reviewed, small, slow (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"4\" hspace=\"4\" border=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.engadget.com\/media\/2010\/01\/100106-nohrtec-01.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div>The kids at <em>Liliputing<\/em> finally got a chance to put the 8.9-inch, AA-powered <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2009\/12\/28\/norhtech-gecko-netbook-loaded-up-with-aas-and-booted\/\">NorhTec Gecko Edubook<\/a> through its paces and, you know what? It&#8217;s slow. Like, every bit as slow as you expected a 1GHz, 512MB of RAM, 8GB SD card storage device to be. The review unit sports the lightweight WattOS (Ubuntu based) Linux distro, although this guy will also support Windows XP if that&#8217;s what floats your boat. Sure, it&#8217;s cheap (under $200), so if portability is a premium for you, and you don&#8217;t really need things like video or Google Docs (which is particularly painful to watch on the included video) you might want to give this one a second look. See for yourself after the break.<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2010\/01\/07\/norhtech-gecko-netbook-reviewed-small-slow-video\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Continue reading <em>NorhTech Gecko netbook reviewed, small, slow (video)<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2010\/01\/07\/norhtech-gecko-netbook-reviewed-small-slow-video\/\">NorhTech Gecko netbook reviewed, small, slow (video)<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\">Engadget<\/a> on Thu, 07 Jan 2010 07:03:00 EST.  Please see our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weblogsinc.com\/feed-terms\/\">terms for use of feeds<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h6><\/h6>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2010\/01\/07\/norhtech-gecko-netbook-reviewed-small-slow-video\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permanent link to this entry\">Permalink<\/a>&nbsp; &nbsp;|&nbsp; <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img_label\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogsmithmedia.com\/www.engadget.com\/media\/post_label_source.gif\" alt=\"source\" \/><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.liliputing.com\/2010\/01\/norhtec-gecko-edubook-with-windows-xp-wattos-video.html\">Liliputing<\/a><!--\/\/--><\/span> &nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/forward\/19305555\/\" title=\"Send this entry to a friend via email\">Email this<\/a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2010\/01\/07\/norhtech-gecko-netbook-reviewed-small-slow-video\/#comments\" title=\"View reader comments on this entry\">Comments<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Buy This Item: <a class=\"buy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/buy.php\" ><span style=\"color: #33bc03\">[Click here to buy this item]<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2010\/01\/07\/norhtech-gecko-netbook-reviewed-small-slow-video\/\" >Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The kids at Liliputing finally got a chance to put the 8.9-inch, AA-powered NorhTec Gecko Edubook through its paces and, you know what? It&#8217;s slow. Like, every bit as slow as you expected a 1GHz, 512MB of RAM, 8GB SD card storage device to be. The review unit sports the lightweight WattOS (Ubuntu based) Linux [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}