Some americans have already started to queue up as of yesterday...
https://old.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/1iausxm/campers_already_appeared/
Utter dribblers. Be funny if the store had no stock and said nothing
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Utter dribblers. Be funny if the store had no stock and said nothing
Some americans have already started to queue up as of yesterday...
https://old.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/1iausxm/campers_already_appeared/
Let's say that if another hurricane were to hit the USA, and if this hurricane happened to strike that particular microcenter, I wouldn't start crying
China definitely has the talent to compete and they haven't even began pouring any money into it.
They are letting American companies fuelled by their investors to APE trillions into dumb AI chatbots.
When something substantial comes out of AI China will be there in full force.
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You gotta hand it to Microcenter for cordoning them off. It's like they're saying to their other customers: "Please don't mind the captive creatures. It is recommended not to make eye contact."Some americans have already started to queue up as of yesterday...
https://old.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/1iausxm/campers_already_appeared/
MC is normally good about stating if they'll have stock an a general estimate of how many, so if there are campers, there are likely (a few) cards there.
Not sure why retailers don't have pricing up yet when the NDA was last week.
What makes things worse is I sold my system and now only a Cornflakes box stands where my 4090 rig once did.
Take the not so great performance leap into account, and this is looking like a bag of dicks.
I need the e peen but I ain’t paying more than £2500 and that’s with promising to mow grannies lawn.
Come to me my beloved Palit, you were always last choice but I’m sure that won’t bother you too much
We're not all the same! I too find this level of "dedication" beyond absurd, and not just a little bit sad. In all my years as a tech enthusiast, I never had any desire to do this, the closest maybe being waiting in line at store opening once for my preorder copy ES: Oblivion where another guy I met in line (who is now a mate I still keep in touch with, indcidentally) and I were joking about being ashamed for being "two 20-something men waiting in line for a video game"
The only reason I'd find this sort of thing acceptable if these were homeless/unemployed people begin paid to sit in line (although I seriously doubt it).And the egg prices are no joke. My family and friends are paying $12/£10 for a dozen right now. I was reading chicken is, as expected, also about to skyrocket in price within the next few weeks.
I would love to go browsing there and then order online to save a fiver.
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yeah, we have loads of apple stores, but no microcenter
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I still remember when you would see the odd independent brick and mortar PC part shop. Hell even the biggest electrical retailer (the Indian dish one) used to stock parts (admittedly almost always at laughable prices and hopelessly out of date). Really wish pyhsical stores for this kind of thing existed
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I saw one a few weeks ago near a Volvo garage whilst getting my car serviced, proper PC part shop! One of the first I've seen in years. It didn't have absolutely everything but it had a good amount of stuff on shelves and they said tended to order anything bespoke in - but you could easily have bought every component to build a PC.
It's awesome, much like the OCUK brick and mortar. I grew up and my family lives very near the original location and it's a mecca. Every piece of hardware on display to play with, actual experts/enthusiasts to help or just chat with (the largest Uni in the US is nearby so tons of comp-sci and semi-c engineering students/grad students working there), great member/customer programs. My (British) wife now "drags" me back every time we're back, suffer my bank account. I took my niece there in November to piece together her first rig (everything had to be pink, which they had, even the case!), and I'll be back there again in March I'm sure when I visit back. I only wish I was nearer to OCUK where I'm at in the UK.
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That's meh. In SE Asia you have whole shopping complexs just full of tech vendors. They are jam packed stall to stall and you can get anything tech related there. I went there over 20 years ago and had to take fresh trousers. It a literal tech enthusiasts wet dream and then some.
Used to be several in my town back in the 90s and early 2000s but they all closed up - usually due to financial issues. One of them was quite interesting as they had a decent selection of parts but also a good size selection of random used hardware and cables, etc. they'd bought from businesses which were upgrading or closing down, etc. etc. so you could grab some bits of rack equipment and less common cables, etc. at a knock down price - IIRC for some reason it was trying to move into the LAN gaming space which resulted in them closing up though.
Imagine if Germany had a Microcenter, I bet there would be towels lined up before a big launch.