Official links: http://content.dell.com/us/en/corp/d/secure/2013-01-08-dell-wyse-ultra-compact-cloud-client.aspx or http://www.wyse.com/about/press/release/2377
Articles:
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/01/is-dell-looking-to-kill-pcs-with-project-ophelia/
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9236035/A_new_computer_that_defies_category
http://www.infoworld.com/t/thin-clients/meet-ophelia-dells-50-plug-in-cloud-based-pc-challenger-211031
Not sure if this makes sense for business or not, it is intended for thin clients, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thin_client. There are Pros and Cons to that approach, way real old school computers were used.
[Personally I think a dispersed mesh network of powerful but very small devices is the more likely future of computing, but that is topic for another day.]
Project Ophelia has a lot of applications for Pen Testing or Hacking though IMO.
You might need to Hack the device a bit, but note while it is using Android to start with, they are planning on offering it with various OS's if I understand correctly.
According to some of the news articles, they are aiming at $50 price, so it would be cheap.
According to the ComputerWorld article (though not sure where they got the info, CES maybe?) specs are as follows: "The device will run Android OS Jelly Bean, have 8GB of memory to support
applications, music, video and presentations, and a microSD slot up to
32GB of storage."
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