{"id":36,"date":"2012-07-22T19:28:56","date_gmt":"2012-07-22T23:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/46.19.32.152\/blog\/?p=36"},"modified":"2012-07-22T19:35:54","modified_gmt":"2012-07-22T23:35:54","slug":"thinkpenguincom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fitzsim.org\/blog\/?p=36","title":{"rendered":"Think Penguin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I bought a <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkpenguin.com\">ThinkPenguin.com<\/a> laptop for my Mom for her birthday. She&#8217;s a long time GNU\/Linux user and she was ready for an upgrade from her ThinkPad T41.  I decided to try ThinkPenguin.com.  I&#8217;m really impressed with their service and their product.<\/p>\n<p>The laptop shipped within a few days, and when it arrived it had Fedora 17 pre-installed like I had requested.  The build quality is very good.  It&#8217;s a slim light laptop with attractive styling, and a solid keyboard.  One of ThinkPenguin&#8217;s main selling points is hardware support, and it really was great.  Graphics, Wi-Fi, suspend, hibernate, resume all worked perfectly, out-of-the-box, no configuration necessary.  It&#8217;s fantastic to get this smooth out-of-the-box experience with GNU\/Linux instead of a proprietary operating system.<\/p>\n<p>If you care about Free Software and are in the market for a laptop, check out ThinkPenguin.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bought a ThinkPenguin.com laptop for my Mom for her birthday. She&#8217;s a long time GNU\/Linux user and she was ready for an upgrade from her ThinkPad T41. I decided to try ThinkPenguin.com. I&#8217;m really impressed with their service and their product. The laptop shipped within a few days, and when it arrived it had &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fitzsim.org\/blog\/?p=36\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Think Penguin&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","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\/36","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=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzsim.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzsim.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzsim.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzsim.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}