Selling laptops like cellphones

Sort of like how you sign up for a two-year contract for cellular service and the carrier throws in the phone for free, in Europe Fujitsu Siemens and Vodafone have started a program to lease laptops and Tablet PCs to businesses for $179 a month with wireless data service included. Unless there is going to be some sort of option to upgrade the laptop's connection over the course of its two year lease this is probably not such a great idea, since you can bet that there will be much faster cellular networks around 24 months from now and you'll be stuck with what will seem like an ancient wireless connection.

[Via TechDirt]