{"id":1842,"date":"2007-10-27T03:07:15","date_gmt":"2007-10-27T08:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=1842"},"modified":"2007-10-27T03:07:15","modified_gmt":"2007-10-27T08:07:15","slug":"zonbu-cares-about-the-planet-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=1842","title":{"rendered":"Zonbu: cares about the planet too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"5\" hspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" alt=\"Image of Zonbu Box\" id=\"image1843\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/zonbu_overview.thumbnail.png\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zonbu.com\/learn\/green.htm\">Zonbu<\/a> is a environmental personal computer with some interesting features. It runs a version of Linux and comes with bundled applications. You buy it with a monthly plan that gives you off-site storage and maintenance. It has no hard-drive, just a flash card for local storage. All of this means it is extremely energy efficient (consumes as much as a light bulb) and that it is easy to run. They also promise to take it back and disassemble it for recycling.As interesting as the green aspect of Zonbu is, I&#8217;m also struck by their service model. You buy it for $99 (without keyboard or monitor) and then pay $13 a month or more for the storage and support. You don&#8217;t get root access and they manage the computer for you. It comes with all the basic applications. As some commentators have put it &#8211; the Zonbu makes for a good second home computer for the family (at least those who don&#8217;t want to run PC games.)<\/p>\n<p>Guy sent me this after reading my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=1818\">Blog Action Day<\/a> grumbling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zonbu is a environmental personal computer with some interesting features. It runs a version of Linux and comes with bundled applications. You buy it with a monthly plan that gives you off-site storage and maintenance. It has no hard-drive, just a flash card for local storage. All of this means it is extremely energy efficient &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=1842\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Zonbu: cares about the planet too<\/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":[18,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy-of-computing","category-playful-or-cool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}