{"id":10510,"date":"2013-07-15T08:21:13","date_gmt":"2013-07-15T13:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10510"},"modified":"2013-07-16T22:20:58","modified_gmt":"2013-07-17T03:20:58","slug":"microsoft-is-cutting-the-price-of-its-surface-rt-tablets-base-model-to-cost-349","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10510","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft is cutting the price of its Surface RT tablets, base model to cost $349"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The new Surface RT prices are detailed below.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;\">Surface RT 32GB &#8211; $349.99<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;\">Surface RT 64GB &#8211; $449.99<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;\">Surface RT 32GB with Touch Cover &#8211; $449.99<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;\">Surface RT 64GB with Touch Cover &#8211; $549.99<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2013\/7\/11\/4514888\/microsoft-surface-rt-tablet-price-cuts\">Microsoft is cutting the price of its Surface RT tablets, base model to cost $349 | The Verge<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Still too high.\u00a0 I can get a decent laptop at Microcenter for $350 and if I want to go small there are plenty of under $200 tablets.\u00a0 The Surface looks and feels like what they used to call a netbook.\u00a0 Those didn&#8217;t do so well in the market.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t imagine doing real work on one of those.\u00a0 It&#8217;s hard enough with a laptop.\u00a0 The size of the QWERTY keyboard is a big factor in productivity IMHO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new Surface RT prices are detailed below. Surface RT 32GB &#8211; $349.99 Surface RT 64GB &#8211; $449.99 Surface RT 32GB with Touch Cover &#8211; $449.99 Surface RT 64GB with Touch Cover &#8211; $549.99 via Microsoft is cutting the price &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10510\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[378],"tags":[525,50,481,115],"class_list":["post-10510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marketing","tag-market-trends","tag-microsoft","tag-pricing","tag-tablets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10515,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10510\/revisions\/10515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}