good local motherboard source?

[cdevers at pobox.com (Chris Devers)]

On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, Rich Braun wrote (roughly):

> . ..... .. ..... ..... .. .. ...... .. . ..... .... Cambridge, where two local
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> I have done business with each of them ..... .... ...... (PCs for Everyone ..
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> ....).  They are both far better now than in the past, IMHO, ... . .....'.
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> ......... ... .... .. ..... ..... ....  I can't imagine going to a place like
> Hartford or Norfolk or even Fort Lauderdale and finding similar options.
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> .. . .....?  . ...'. ....... .......'. ........... ..... ... ...-.... $129
> ..... .. .. ... **2400+** /..../ ........... .. a local company ....'. .......
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> (I do not work for either of these shops, but I'd find it very sad if either
> of them went bust because of, say, their overly-generous customer return
> policies.)
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> -rich


Apologies if I'm being a troll, but *what is the other Cambridge company*? 

You come out and name PCs For Everyone -- great. You mention that PCs For
Everyone used to do business under the name Unitech, but Unitech doesn't
seem to be the other company that you're so happy with. 

I know Microcenter was mentioned elsewhere in this thread, but it isn't
clear if you mean them or someone else, and in any case they aren't a
local company -- they have locations nationwide, but I think that their
headquarters is in Ohio.

My nagging curiosity is dying to know the name of the other company :)


Also, are Norfolk [VA?] and Fort Lauderdale some kind of tech shopping
meccas? Why cite them, out of all cities of a similar distance? If you're
willing to go as far as Florida for a good deal, surely there must be
deals to be found in, say, Washington, NYC, Chicago, Atlanta -- heck maybe
even Montreal or Toronto. Just to name some bigger, closer examples. 


I feel like I just read half of your email, and the other was somehow lost
in transmission... :)


-- 
Chris Devers