| I just got home and found a "Gateway Connected touch pad Welcome Kit!" in the mail. Its not much of a kit, its just a letter that says you need AOL. It has both Gateway and AOL logos on the letterhead. It doesn't look like they'll be trying to do any passing on of credit card info because it says on this sheet that you need to sign up using the touchpad if you aren't already an AOL subscriber. And on a side note, I think I read somewhere that the Crusoe 3200 chip doesn't have good support for 16-bit operating systems which would account for why it doesn't run 98 very well, but gets better in Me. I guess 98 still had a lot of 16-bit code in it. I'm actually thinking of using this for its intended purpose. I've been holding on to AOL because of the email adress and IM name, so this would be a good reason to continue keeping it. The only problem i see is that I only pay $9.99 a month because I have a cable modem and I'm on the "bring your own access" plan. I have a feeling that instant AOL won't have a setting to use TCP/IP to connect to AOL, but I guess I jsut have to wait and see. | |
Darn.