Frys has a higher tech head feel that Best Buy or Circuit City. Of course, I’m not sure if you thought CompUSA was better that BB or CC... I never did.
I’ll make my own thank you.
Thumbs up from a computer assembled by myself.
That’s not an advertisement, either, BTW. I get nothing from that site or its subscribers. It’s the listing of lowest prices that I’ve seen, though. Various companies that sell low list their stuff there. ...hope that it helps you out.
That’ll teach them to rip me off on a rebate.
Glad to see them go.
I will probably shop their going-out-of-business sale.
CompUSA was worstbuy, most expensive place I ever saw. Surprised they lasted this long. Now Fry’s Electronics is the best of them all IMO.
Call me slow, but why would Comp USA be sold, then closed? Market share?
My best friend is a Sr. IT Facilities Coordinator for CompUSA, they got an email Friday afternoon around 4:30pm telling them to call in for a pre-recorded message at 4:45pm letting them all know that they would all soon be unemployed...He says he should have gotten out this past spring when they were shutting down all the stores in the DFW area...
I've been planning to build another new computer based on an MSI P35 Platinum, q6600 quad processor and 2 GB of DDR RAM. My local PC shop has built a few of these and recommended a 750 watt power supply. A 500 watt appears to be marginal for this class of motherboard/CPU. I have to purchase a video card as all my current machines are AGP based...this MB requires a PCI Express. I already have a 300 GB EIDE and DVD +/- R/RW/DL burner new in the box and waiting for a home. This box is going to be a Fedora Core 8 build/test environment. Mostly a "headless" server. I saw a machine at Best Buy from Gateway that had comparable specs, but all the customer reviews cite noisy hard disks, brittle RAM and motherboard failures. No thanks.
I use the pricewatch website to get a feel for the current reasonable "street price" of the various components. Purchasing that way does entail some risk if you get a bad component from a supplier. Dealing via phone, e-mail and multiple passes at UPS can eat any "savings" in a hurry vs dealing with a reputable local PC shop. My local shops make a best effort to come close to the best deals on the pricewatch site. In general, I expect my supplier of motherboard/CPU/RAM to demonstrate a successful boot on a technician's bench before I cart it home and install the motherboard in the new box. That saves a lot of time and travel.
I always found it darned tough to find the prices of merchandise there. Sales folk were always unavailable and nothing had prices posted.
Don’t ever go to Circuit City.
They treat their employees like yesterdays garbage.
good riddance
CompUSA will go Internet. Watch.
Worst customer service of anyplace I’ve dealt with. Had a nightmare experience with my daughter’s laptop and it was impossible to get service for it despite their crappy extended warranty for which I paid wayyy more than it was worth. Never again!
As we all file past the casket and spit into it,
I’d like to share a memory of the deceased...
Back in ‘83, I was in graduate school and Apple
released the Mac and offered special educational
buys. I bought. Loved it.
These were the days before internal hard drives
on Macs. I had two 3.5” disk drives - both internal.
The WHOLE operating system fit onto one 400k disk.
Your program files AND data went on the other.
Presumably, in computer years, that must make me
ancient. I’m 50.
This was before the World Wide Web. I was online
with a 300 baud modem. Everything was in text only.
Anyway...
Diskettes were expensive - way out of the budget
range of graduate students... except at one place.
In North Dallas, over by Brookhaven college, back in
a quasi industrial area, there was a little hole in the
wall store that sold those diskettes SO CHEAPLY that
during the lunch hour, there was a line of people
15-20 deep waiting to buy.
The whole store was probably 12 X 12. it fronted a back
end warehouse.
I stood in that line many a time. Diskettes were basically
all they sold. The people on the warehouse side of the
ordering window looked like they were from the Middle East
somewhere.
We always wondered how they could sell those diskettes for
HALF or less as any other store. Of course, nature abhors
a vacuum, so we speculated that they were using this system
to ship money into or out of the country.
To make a long story short, that tiny hole in the wall
became CompUSA!
[shuffles from the front of the casket...]
I bought a lot of diskettes...
ampu
Last spring I bought a 22" Samsung WS Digital Monitor from them. They had a sale plus a rebate on it. I felt like I was stealing for the low price I paid. About a month later I dumped my Dell from Hell and bought a Systemax p.c. from them, it rocks. Made in the USA and the Tech Support is at the factory, no India baloney like Dell.
As to CompUSA I haven't went to them in about a decade. The store they had in Downers Grove, IL moved. I thought they closed down so I thought they already were out of business.
Com-poosa wasn’t too bad until you had a problem with something you bought. Then you really found out what they were all about.
I won’t miss them at all.
CompUSA failed in Colorado. It was a terrible Mexican flea-market.
Microcenter, for all its faults, provides what we need. They’re the real-deal and good prices. They learned to have 10 registers open and they still have lines.