Can Newegg survive the post-PC future?

Tagged: Newegg, Computer Hardware
Source: Slashdot - Read the full article
Posted: 1 year 33 weeks ago

""Upgrading your desktop PC's video card was once a rite of passage for many Slashdot readers — and could also be a gateway to building your own computer from the motherboard up. And more often than not, you bought the components from Newegg. But the tablets and ultrathin laptops that are today's hot sellers don't let you so much as swap in more RAM. What's a component retailer to do in world without user-serviceable components?""

 

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Tue, 09/27/2011 - 11:56
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d3uS2029
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Newegg will always survive... a Tablet or notebook in this time can NEVER do what a desktop can do.

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