In February 2021, the outbreak is the Silicon Valley Nardes alone in February 2021. The electronics store was a statue of tech roots in the China Valley.
But Micro CenterAn Ohio -based electronics retailer has opened its 29th store in Santa Clara, California. And so the fool has returned. Earlier this month, in San Francisco, after the opening of the Nintendo Store in the country after New York, I see it as a big deal. After years of bad economic news, it was a pleasure to see the symbols that the Bay area was returning.
But this is just no store. This is a sign – it shows that Tech still has a physical presence in Silicon Valley, in addition to the restaurant of the book, in addition to Danny’s places, where Nodia started, the Intel Museum, the Computer History Museum, the California Academy of Sciences and the Tech Museum of Information. Walker’s Wagon Wheel, Attari’s Headquarters, Sher & Compass – Even other historical hangouts for tricks like Circuit City are closed. But hey, we have found the micro center store, and Apple spaces are not far away.
The great opening week is getting fine and I received a super store from an experienced tech journalist Dan Acryman, who is the chief editor -in -chief at Micro Center News. When I went to this place, Acryman was eliminating the chat with IFIXIT, a tech repair post that has its place for podcasts inside the store. It was unexpected, because I never saw the social media hugging store in this way.
There was a nearby knowledge bar, where you can get answers to all your tech questions – such as Genius Bars in Apple stores. And there were open repair tables.
There are many things for tech fans that can be liked about the micro center. First of all, it is not as wide as Fry, which had a strange combination of home appliances, cosmetics, magazines and tin breakfast foods, as well as Zen themes and electronics equipment such as ancient Egypt. Û” Fry was a store that subjected the nervous and silicon valley to stereotypical concepts, which also had its own HBO television show that was on stereotypes.
The micro center store, on the contrary, is smaller on 40,000 square feet and has many practical nerves. Acrymin told me, for the Grand Opening, the store had a highly practical product of more than 4,000 graphics processing units (GPUs) in stock of NVIDIA (which has just launched from GPUs and AMD). Some of these graphics cards cost $ 4,000.
“There were people waiting to go to the GPU,” said Acryman.
The display had a gold -mounted graphics card that was being auctioned for a charity. It was signed by NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang.
“I joke that anyone who wins the bid should get Jeanson’s leather jacket,” said Acryman.
And this is a good place in the micro center store (5201 Stevens Creek in Santa Clara), which is just six minutes away from Apple’s worldwide headquarters and (probably better now) is a one -minute distance from the Korean hair salon.
The micro center was a previous store in Silicon Valley, near Intel’s headquarters in Santa Clara. But this store is close in 2012 because the company cannot discuss better terms with the landlord. To return to the Bay area, the micro center supported its time and returned at a time when many other retail chains were failing. This proves that once a proud letter – the birthplace of electronics – is still capable of its electronics store.
Certainly, we have a lot of electronics gear selling targets, Best Baest and Walmart. But in Japan, there is nothing like Akihabara Electronics District, filled with multi -story electronics stores and gaming arcades.
But this store is full of modern top gear today, such as AIPC, UBOT home networking gear, and color for multi -color water -powered systems. Shopkeepers like Roger and Lajtec had their share. Among many unclear items, I was happy to show the USB-A adapter from the USB-C in stock. And he showed me an inventory machine that could rotate its 3D printing stocks and give you the exact SKU that you have scanned with the bar code.
“It’s a lot of fun. I call it Mr. Fleemances,” Acryman said about the inventory robot. “
There is a section for hobbies that like single board computing and DIY projects. Content is a set of video, audio and digital content creation tools for creators. Everyone said, there are more than 20,000 products and more than 100 tech specialists who can help. It also contains number cashier places where you can check – similar checkout stands that Fry had.
Customers can receive authorized computer service for brands such as Apple, Dell, and HP, which benefit from the same day’s diagnosis and repair, thanks to more than 3,000 parts in partnership with leading OEMS. I wish it was a help desk for the comic.
The micro center began in 1979 in Columbus, Ohio. It is surprising that there are no more stupid stores because of how teching everywhere in these days.
But Acryman said, “These people are really doing this right, selecting and choosing, looking for the right places, looking for the right places. That’s why Charlotte is great. Miami is a huge tech hub, especially for Health Tech.
“Although this store is big, the CEO (Richard Murshad) is really in the car cure, ensuring that it is the right mixture of things. He is making sure it does not go too far.” There are ingredients, such as in the radio shake, which cares about the fonders. “
As far as Micro Center News is concerned, Acryman told me that he had about 10 regular partners and 20 more freelancers writing gadget reviews and other stories about tech gear. This is a kind of refuge for this missing generation of professional tech journalists. Not surprisingly, I was very old to visit the micro center.