{"id":120,"date":"2004-12-21T14:39:06","date_gmt":"2004-12-21T19:39:06","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-09-14T08:07:43","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T12:07:43","slug":"wal_mart_selling_a_498_linspire_laptop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/2004\/12\/21\/wal_mart_selling_a_498_linspire_laptop\/","title":{"rendered":"Wal-Mart Selling a $498 Linspire Laptop"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>This is from Michael&#8217;s Minutes. Michael Robertson is the CEO of Linspire, and he is determined to get Linux out there to the masses.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/media.linspire.com\/mailers\/mm\/walmartcomp.jpg?resize=150%2C138\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" height=\"138\" width=\"150\" \/>Linspire has been working for months on a project that will have a profound impact on consumers and on the Linux market &#8211; a sub-$500 laptop from a major retailer. This week, we&#8217;re proud to announce a new complete laptop available immediately for $498, exclusively from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linspire.com\/498\" target=\"_blank\">Walmart.com<\/a>. There are no mail-order rebates, no refurbished equipment, no &#8220;only three available at this price,&#8221; no gimmicks or asterisks whatsoever and you are not required to buy a printer or sign up for an ISP &#8212; it&#8217;s just a low price from an established retailer carrying a laptop pre-installed with Linux. This marks a milestone for desktop Linux as it moves into the portable market.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is from Michael&#8217;s Minutes. Michael Robertson is the CEO of Linspire, and he is determined to get Linux out there to the masses. Linspire has been working for months on a project that will have a profound impact on consumers and on the Linux market &#8211; a sub-$500 laptop from a major retailer. This &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1977,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-120","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-computer-news","7":"anons"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}