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  Vogue advertises $830 netbook sleeves - Boing Boing Gadgets
Vogue advertises $830 netbook sleeves - Boing Boing Gadgets
928d334bb0c50b48_goyard_computer_case.xxlarge.jpg Spotted in this month's Vogue , this utter insanity: ensconcing your $349 Dell Inspiron Mini 9 in an $830 Goyard netbook sleeve. Aren't sleeves supposed to cost less than the computers they protect? [image via Geeksugar ]
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$830 Goyard Netbook Sleeves Despise Humanity [NetBooks]
$830 Goyard Netbook Sleeves Despise Humanity [NetBooks]
gizmodo.com — I'm glad that in spite of the economic apocalypse, famed French luggage maker Goyard can offer us... netbook bags for only $830 (as seen in Vogue magazine.) I could say a lot of things in response to this unequivocally ridiculous item. I could live up ... (more) $830 Goyard Netbook Sleeves Despise Humanity [NetBooks]
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$830 Goyard Netbook Sleeves Despise Humanity [NetBooks]
Gizmodo — ... chastising the ladies at geeksugar who would fawn over some patterned scrap of leather just because there's a zipper and designer attached. I could approach the bag from a standpoint of logic, questioning why someone would pay more just to hold a netbook than they paid for that netbook in the first place. But I'm not going to do any of those things. It's not worth my or your time or effort. Instead, I'll just say— Fuck you, Goyard. Fuck. You. [geeksugar via bbGadgets] ...

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