Inside Newegg: They give us a Tour and you a Prize
by Anand Lal Shimpi on February 14, 2006 3:31 PM EST- Posted in
- IT Computing
The Secure Area
While motherboards, optical drives and video cards are kept in the three stories of racks, the more expensive items like CPUs, memory and software are kept in a separate area that's fenced in. After all of the components from the picker area are placed into your tub, it rolls down a ramp towards the secure area:
Here we are standing at the third level of the picker assembly line looking down upon the secure area:
And after making our way down we find ourselves at one of the entrances to the secure area:
It may not look like much, but what's contained within is truly a tech enthusiast's candy store. Newegg keeps the processors segregated, all of the Intel CPUs were on our left, while all of the AMD CPUs were on our right.
While we were wandering around the CPU area we did manage to swipe a few processors for you. The best we could do was a set of five Athlon 64 X2 4600+ CPUs; we'll be giving one away each day from February 14, 2006 through February 17, 2006 and the final CPU will be given away on February 20th. To enter to win just head over here and drop your email in the box, good luck :)
CPUs weren't the only things plentiful in the secure area; there was also lots of memory on hand:
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Blondie - Thursday, February 16, 2006 - link
The article was very informative. Thank you so much for taking the time to bring it to us.Bozo Galora - Thursday, February 16, 2006 - link
wow, anand is all growed up.I often wondered if the $50 million plus payout for AT site during the dotcom bubble that anand missed by just a few weeks has been made up for over the ensuing years. Hmmmmmmmmm.
Was it Sharkey that got $70 million or sumthin. LOL
Phiro - Thursday, February 16, 2006 - link
99.9999999% of those dotcom bubble payouts were in stock, which 99.99999% of the time dropped tremendously in value before they could unload any.So 99.999999% of your $50M deals turns into $50k deals.
jnmunsey - Wednesday, February 15, 2006 - link
Hey man NewEgg ain't got no white employees.. Those racist bastards!jnmunsey - Wednesday, February 15, 2006 - link
No wait I found 1 white guy in this pic from page 1 of the article.. The token white guy can be found here in the middle-left of the pichttp://images.anandtech.com/reviews/IT/InsideNeweg...">http://images.anandtech.com/reviews/IT/InsideNeweg...
andrep74 - Friday, February 17, 2006 - link
Yeah, have you ever read the requirements for getting a job there? You practically have to speak Chinese...yanman - Wednesday, February 15, 2006 - link
Anand, how about you use this chance to get NewEgg to offer international shipping for us poor aussies :)Schmide - Wednesday, February 15, 2006 - link
but with all that technology. How come my browser never starts on page 1 in their hot deals section. It’s always page 3 or 4. LOL.Slaimus - Wednesday, February 15, 2006 - link
Newegg got (in?)famous on Anandtech when they were the only one to sell the Radeon LE (Sapphire version imported from China, back in the day when all ATI was made by ATI themselves). It was far cheaper than the Made by ATI Radeon DDR. This got posted in Hot Deals forum and everyone was pleased with their fast and free shipping. They got in trouble, however, when people found out it was the LE (slower) version instead of the full Radeon DDR. There was a big uproar (I think the thread grew to 500 posts or so), and Newegg was forced to take in returns or offer price adjustments. This is also what started the cheap "refurbs" that newegg sells, which were just customer returns. This was probably also why Newegg started posting the core/memory speeds of graphics card they sell.kmmatney - Wednesday, February 15, 2006 - link
Heck yeah!!! I bought one of those Radeon LEs for cheap after the first debacle. I flashed the BIOS to a full Radeon. It gave me a top of the line $150 video card for $65!! Back then, top of the line as $150 :(.