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Not quite.

Let's explain a little bit. This is not the Efika 5121E, but the 5121Efika :) It's actually the Freescale development board which we will seed to developers in a kind of "private projects program" in order to accelerate development and get the right software available.

Rather than wait until full commercial release of the 5121E and the Efika design around it, then wait for MorphOS, and good Linux support in distributions, we can have this ready right from the presence of the Buy button for users. We identified this as a huge problem with the old design and the support framework, obviously :)

The Efika 5121E Final Final Production Design should be the same size if not smaller than the current Efika. It wil not be Mini-ITX, but engineering it so that it fits better into standard cases is one design point we're looking at.

We're also looking at what ports we can expose for hobbyists, wireless support, we've obviously taken on views on how many USB ports there should be, and other peripheral connectivity.

The Efika 5121E will be the Efika, but better, it should have a ready-built case on launch (Efika Client from Day One) so you won't all NEED to hack up a USB drive chassis to get it to work (although you are still free to).

Basically think of the Efika 5200B as a test, and you're all our guinea pigs. We won't stop supporting you and we will be looking to make the new board just as cheap (maybe not $99.. but close enough considering the featureset).

With regards to MorphOS, we fully supported the port to the Efika 5200B but the release just isn't ready yet. It's taken a while for it to get done. It's a hope that we could see an Efika 5121E MorphOS release pretty soon after the board release, maybe if that is soon enough it will be the same release as the 5200B..