Perry Ellis gives away cheapo USB flash drive

  • June 22, 2007
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Perry Ellis gives away cheapo USB flash drive – Filed under: Storage You would think that Perry Ellis, a “respectable” department store clothing maker, could afford something half-way decent to hand out to its customers — but you would be wrong. Like many designer products, after you get through the ornate packaging and custom plastic box, it’s just cheap junk from China. In this case, that cheap junk happens to be a 64MB (that’s right, megabyte) USB flash drive. Of course, you’ll be thanking Perry when you’ve got a place to store one big Photoshop file. [Thanks, kristofer]   Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life! [EnGadget]
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You would think that Perry Ellis, a “respectable” department store clothing maker, could afford something half-way decent to hand out to its customers — but you would be wrong. Like many designer products, after you get through the ornate packaging and custom plastic box, it’s just cheap junk from China. In this case, that cheap junk happens to be a 64MB (that’s right, megabyte) USB flash drive. Of course, you’ll be thanking Perry when you’ve got a place to store one big Photoshop file.

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