Re:Micron Announces Exit from Crucial Consumer Business
by hibikir on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @09:50PM
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In many cities in the US, there's Microcenter, where you can walk out with every part you need. We also still have smaller stores that can build clones for you/hand you the boxes, but they don't quite have the same variety of parts.
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Re:Micron Announces Exit from Crucial Consumer Business
by ghaff on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @10:27PM
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Microcenter is one of the very few local DIY stores remaining. Best Buy has some stuff like hard drives but, even in the Boston area, I can't think of many other examples at this point.
Of course, you have Newegg and other online stores.
Re:Micron Announces Exit from Crucial Consumer Business
by ejoso on Thursday December 04, 2025 @01:17AM
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In some cities.
I happen to be from one of them.
Now I live in a far bigger city (Los Angeles) and the closest Microcenter is 2 hours away. Worse with traffic on a Tuesday afternoon. They’re only in a handful of states, sadly.
There are not many places that offer a reasonable selection of boards that are close. Fry’s was the last bastion for many folks. Best Buy sometimes has a few options. But today is a far cry from the days of Circuit City, Computer City, CompUSA, RadioShack… not to mention dozens of mom & pop stores. Online is the main way nowadays.