Continuing todays unofficial topic of low-cost and low-power motherboards, I thought I should mention the EFIKA mainboard. I've mentioned EFIKA before as an organisation who are trying to think beyond the ordinary grey/beige box design and think more about the power that we really need on the desktop.

Since that post back in February, EFIKA have released a version of their mainboard for just $99 (see The $99 EFIKA - on the Road to Mobility). Like the VIA boards, the $99 EFIKA mainboard includes pretty much everything you should need in a very small and capable format. You'll have to add storage, RAM, a PSU and keyboard/monitor, but you'll save the planet and the electricity bills.