Read more.Do you still feel the need to touch and see, or have your builds and upgrades shifted entirely online?
Read more.Do you still feel the need to touch and see, or have your builds and upgrades shifted entirely online?
2011, and it was just a pickup as I've been shopping online only well before that
The closest thing is probably around 2006 when I bought a custom-build from a local PC shop.
Other than that, I believe my component purchases have always been online as the prices were always clearly cheaper than brick-and-mortar.
I bought a used Pcie XFX Geforce 7800GT from a local shop around 2008, the shop has survived and still does repairs etc now which is good.
Just before the lockdown. Some networking stuff.
Our local Novatech closed a few years back. I bought some things from Maplin a few times, but now they're gone too.
I did trek up to OCUK to see/try the new Vive and did buy some bits then.
I do sometimes amble through PC World, especially if it's something I want more immediately.
I'd use shops more often, but they've been driven away by big brand fashion shops and stomped on by the likes of Amazon.
I cannot wait until the dystopian future where the world is owned and run by a handful of megacorps. We're so very nearly there, and I want to jack in to the matrix, man..... I wanna get 320 gigabytes of storage for my head!!
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Originally Posted by Mark Tyson
That is a tough one, I'm not sure I can actually remember! Or maybe I just never have Our first couple of (family) computers came from physical shops (local one, then Evesham shop on the edge of Leeds) - but home builds many moons ago when I was a teenager were all bought online.
bought an SSD from pcworld - was cheaper than online. was many, many years ago now.
2010. Maybe 2009. Needed a very specific PSU for an old system and Maplin happened to have one. Actually it was a case from Yoyotech in London. That was a year after that so late 2010.
Honestly I can't remember, it was so long ago.
Grab that. Get that. Check it out. Bring that here. Grab anything useful. Take anything good.
3 years ago. now, no more shops left where I live.
Does a full system count? I bought a laptop fro PC World, last year. Parts for my PC.... I'm not entirely sure. I remember buying a TV-Card, from Maplin around 2011. After that...
I live near a microcenter, so as often as possible I go there. (In particular for CPUs/MOBOS, can't beat them for that, and their Inland line of SSDs is a great deal.) But I also go to Best Buy, once in a long while... just because. Not sure I've bought anything there in a long time, but I'd rather get something local than through Amazon.
PC World for 8gb ram back in 2009, it was actually for someone else's PC tho, it was actually a really good deal, £44 if I remember right.
For me it is in 2005, when I got some parts at a Computer Fair. If I remember right, it was a PC Case, a DVD-RW Drive, and a stack of DVD-R Discs. The rest of the components were bought online, and I've got everything else online ever since.
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