Free AOL Laptop to set you back £1388.74

20 09 2007

free-laptop.jpg  That’s more than an iPhone, and that’s before you even make a call.

Yes, those cheeky chappies in AOL are trying to get at your wallets again.  This time it’s a four page cover spread of on the ever popular Metro advertising a free wireless Laptop for signing up to their broadband.  This, by the way is the same Metro that touted the iPhone as costing £1259 “before even making a call” yesterday.  As ever there is some small print, so it is only appropriate that we apply the same knee jerk statistical logic as the Metro used on the iPhone to this offer, so that you my dear reader, can fully understand the true cost of this Faustian bargain. 

Of course I’m not going to divulge the in depth statistical modelling I have used to conjure up this immense figure, but fear not, if the lawyers do start banging on my door, I have a coherent argument.

Competition: There’s a free Rugby World Cup mini stress relief rugby ball for the first person to work out how I came up with this figure.