{"id":7941,"date":"2003-02-21T10:49:34","date_gmt":"2003-02-21T10:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=7941"},"modified":"2003-02-21T10:49:34","modified_gmt":"2003-02-21T10:49:34","slug":"commodity-laptops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=7941","title":{"rendered":"Commodity Laptops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Doc Searls reports that Lindows is releasing a $800\/933mhz Linux laptop. I wonder if this will bring anyone else&#8217;s prices down.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/linuxjournal.com\/article.php?sid=6662\">Lindows Launches $799 Linux Laptop<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><i>here I am, writing from the floor of the Desktop Linux Summit in San Diego, where Michael Robertson, the founder and CEO of the Summit&#8217;s local host company, Lindows, has done the same for a much smaller audience (several hundred vs. several thousand) but potentially a much larger market. At the top of his list of announcements is an item that drew a gasp from the audience: a 2.9 pound, $799 Linux laptop, the Lindows MobilePC. <\/p>\n<p> Here are the stats: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>933MHz VIA processor\n<li>256MB RAM\n<li>USB 2.0\n<li>Firewire\n<li>Ethernet\n<li>12.1&#8243; 1024&#215;768 TFT display\n<li>PCMCIA slot\n<li>Compact Flash slot\n<p> Michael Robertson tells me &#8220;It has the same mini-ITX form factor that&#8217;s in the Lindows Media computer.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p> There&#8217;s no WiFi or modem capabilities installed, but you can add a PCMCIA card for both. During the break I heard no complaints and plenty of kudos. (Nobody in the room had used one yet, though, other than Michael Robertson, who used the box to give his whole presentation.)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doc Searls reports that Lindows is releasing a $800\/933mhz Linux laptop. I wonder if this will bring anyone else&#8217;s prices down. Lindows Launches $799 Linux Laptop here I am, writing from the floor of the Desktop Linux Summit in San Diego, where Michael Robertson, the founder and CEO of the Summit&#8217;s local host company, Lindows, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=7941\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Commodity Laptops&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}