I used to buy parts from General Nanosystems, but soon got tired of paying 6.5% sales tax and now I buy everything from Newegg. Micro Center's prices are really competitive and in some cases beating Newegg's prices. You'll have to figure out what's cheaper: sales tax or shipping. For example, it's cheaper to get a OCZ 120GB Vertex SSD from Micro Center than Newegg. A couple months ago, Micro Center had better pricing on Intel Core I7 920's compared to Newegg. As far as customer service, the checkout process at GNS vs MC is about the same... slow. BTW, I noticed the other day while at Micro Center picking up a sweet $10 black mini keyboard for my Linux box that they now sell Lego Star Wars sets! -Chris Jeremy wrote: > I've had good experiences with Nanosystems. > > Good prices on many things, and the only local source for some parts. They > seem to have good answers to tech questions. > > Sometimes the front-line guys look a little exhausted, but the service has > been good. > > Jeremy > > > On Wednesday 17 June 2009 9:32:37 pm Asim Baig wrote: > >> Charlie, >> >> My cousin Khalid (Cal) owns the shop and isnt on this mailing list. I am >> wondering if you could share your last 3 experiences with GNS? Were the >> employees rude or indifferent? Were the products not available? What >> happened the last few times? >> >> If you would rather not share it in public, I would understand. I have >> noticed problems at his company too and have been wanting to get >> feedback from the community. >> >> If anyone has any feedback good or bad, I will note it down and get it >> straight to him. For over 14 years, he has worked hard to keep his >> customers happy and he would very much want to know whats going on. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Asim >> >> Charlie O wrote: >> >>> I've bought my last several computerrs from General Nanosystems , but >>> the last 3 times I've been in there I've had bad experiences with them. >>> >>> Can anyone suggest other good places to get a computer that are >>> Linux-friendly? I'll need to do dual boot with Windows for my work, >>> so I'll need the system plus the installation media to install myself. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Charlie >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >>> > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20090618/d734ff7d/attachment.htm