If HP released a laptop that could only access the internet through AOL people would laugh, but it's exactly the same thing. -- Start a man a fire and he will be warm for one night. Start a man on fire and he will be warm for the rest of his life.
Simple. Don't buy a laptop with that feature. It is not on all their laptops. Besides, it doesn't stop you from disabling it and using a PCMIA card for another service. -- support the Hunley