{"id":8163,"date":"2003-12-08T12:45:10","date_gmt":"2003-12-08T12:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=8163"},"modified":"2003-12-08T12:45:10","modified_gmt":"2003-12-08T12:45:10","slug":"windows-free-tablet-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8163","title":{"rendered":"Windows-Free Tablet PC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/storypics\/helium1000.jpg\" align=\"left\">A couple o&#8217; months ago a friend asked me for a recomendation for a good laptop for college. He wanted something inexpensive, highly portable, flexible, and preferably Windows-free. Well, if I&#8217;d known about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elementcomputer.com\/store\/product_info.php?cPath=2&#038;products_id=33\">Element 2100<\/a> at the time, I might have recommended he at least take a look. The specs on this laptop are pretty impressive for the price; 14&#8243; screen and internal 30 gig hard-drive, 256 megs of RAM expandable to 1 gig, USB 2.0 ports, memory card reader and optional internal WiFi. Best of all it&#8217;s a tablet PC, which means that the screen is a touch-screen and can be rotated to cover the keyboard, or used like a standard laptop. It ships with Licoris GNU\/Linux instead of Windows too, which saves cost and reduces threat of system failure. The whole thing comes in under 5 lbs. and is relatively slender. The downsides are that it does not seem to have an internal optical drive and the VIA 1GHz processor seems a little under-powered. More RAM wouldn&#8217;t hurt either, but maybe that&#8217;s not as much of an issue if you&#8217;re not running that old bloatOS. <\/p>\n<p> Those willing to take a chance on this unit can get it for around $1000, but you might want to wait until a few reviews show up, especially ours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple o&#8217; months ago a friend asked me for a recomendation for a good laptop for college. He wanted something inexpensive, highly portable, flexible, and preferably Windows-free. Well, if I&#8217;d known about the Element 2100 at the time, I might have recommended he at least take a look. The specs on this laptop are &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8163\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Windows-Free Tablet PC&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8163","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\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}