{"id":344,"date":"2017-09-08T15:56:45","date_gmt":"2017-09-08T19:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fitzsim.org\/blog\/?p=344"},"modified":"2017-09-08T15:56:45","modified_gmt":"2017-09-08T19:56:45","slug":"talos-ii-available-for-pre-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fitzsim.org\/blog\/?p=344","title":{"rendered":"Talos II available for pre-order"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Talos II is now <a href=\"https:\/\/raptorcs.com\/\">available for pre-order<\/a>.  It is the more affordable, more power-efficient successor to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fitzsim.org\/blog\/?p=334\">Talos I machine I wrote about in a previous post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is a very affordable machine for how powerful it will be, and there are minimal mainboard + CPU + RAM bundles (e.g., <a href=\"https:\/\/raptorcs.com\/content\/TL2B01\/intro.html\">this one<\/a>), around which one can build a workstation with more readily-available parts.  I&#8217;ve placed an order for one of the bundles, and will buy the chassis and GPU separately (mainly to avoid high cross-border shipping fees for the full workstation).<\/p>\n<p>The Talos II is an important machine for Free Software, and will likely be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fsf.org\/blogs\/licensing\/support-the-talos-ii-a-candidate-for-respects-your-freedom-certification-by-pre-ordering-by-september-15\">RYF-certified by the FSF<\/a>.  Pre-orders end September 15th!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Talos II is now available for pre-order. It is the more affordable, more power-efficient successor to the Talos I machine I wrote about in a previous post. This is a very affordable machine for how powerful it will be, and there are minimal mainboard + CPU + RAM bundles (e.g., this one), around which &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fitzsim.org\/blog\/?p=344\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Talos II available for pre-order&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzsim.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzsim.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzsim.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzsim.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzsim.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=344"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzsim.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":347,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzsim.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions\/347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzsim.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzsim.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzsim.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}