AOL is selling their own branded PC for $300 for customers who sign up for a year of service with the ISP. Although GearLive is sort of down on the whole thing, I’m basically okay with it. A 2GHz Celeron isn’t exactly a beast, but it’ll handle most newbie users’ needs, and with a bundled monitor it’s not an awful deal. I’m much more behind this idea compared to, say, Microsoft’s MSN TV. There’s no reason for people to get on the internet with anything besides a PC these days.
Plus AOL has all those cute smilies that you can’t get anywhere else. They’re a pioneer in smilies development, really, like c(0^o} and the patent-pending |0_o].
AOL Attempts to Lure Customers with AOL P [GearLive]
