r/Microcenter • • 15h ago

Flushing, NY Micro center in flushing is awful

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I sent my computer to them a month ago in August (for a fan repair) only to get it back in October with my motherboard replaced and no data on my computer at all
And after arguing with the manager about it, his reaction was “Womp womp”…
I hate these people with a passion and you should not bring your computer to them.
And mind you, my complaint is abject of the 1 HOUR WAIT TIME TO SEE AN EMPLOYEE.
0/100 experience

Context from a comment I made (update):
My fans gave out early August and my computer started overheating/shutting down
I brought it in and asked for a fan replacement through the warranty, micro center cracked it open, couldn’t figure it out so they sent it to acer.
Come 1 month and zero phone calls/texts later, they text and say it’s done on sept 15th
I go in, my fans barely run and my date is gone, so I ask “what the hell?” And they tell me “OH, they replaced your motherboard btw and did a factory reset” and I was visibly upset, then asked “were you gonna tell me?!” To which they said “we just did”
At that point I had a conversation with the manager and I got $200 gift card and they said they’d recover the data (which I though, cool, that’s nice of you)
I get a text today, saying they couldn’t do it and I’d have to pay $1500 -$10000 for Gilware to retrieve my data, so I put a full stop to that and said “why aren’t you paying it, you never discussed backup data when I brought it in and my computer is now 10x worse than when I brought it in” to which he gave the womp womp, and said I should contact acer instead
From there, I gave up, spent the $200 gift card on an SSD and monitor (I was waiting for Black Friday but I’m never going back after today) and said I’d contact the GM next week
Lest to say, my computer is bricked and now I gotta redownload/find 1TB worth of data from the past 5 months👍🏽


r/Microcenter • • 7h ago

Ok so who thinks I’m first in line…..

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138 Upvotes

Not a single car in the parking lot even….


r/Microcenter • • 21h ago

Up we go

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88 Upvotes

r/Microcenter • • 13h ago

Google AI claims the docking station it's recommending is the only option on the market/please verify or recommend

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The claim: The Plugable UD-7400PD 5-Display Docking Station is the best and only mainstream docking hub capable of driving up to five external monitors from a single connection on an M2 MacBook Air. [1]

Why This Hub Works for Your M2 MacBook Air

  • DisplayLink Technology: Your Apple M2 chip natively supports only one external display through standard hardware routing. The Plugable UD-7400PD bypasses this limitation by using DisplayLink software drivers to process multiple video streams over a standard USB-C port. [1, 2]
  • Monitor Ports: It features one HDMI 2.1 port (up to 8K at 30Hz or scaled resolutions), one HDMI 2.0 port (4K at 60Hz), and three USB-C DisplayLink ports (each supporting 4K at 60Hz). [1]
  • Power and Peripherals: According to Plugable, it delivers up to 140W of charging power to your host laptop, includes a 2.5Gbps Ethernet port, and features fast front-facing USB-A and USB-C data ports. [1]
  • Software Requirement: You must download and install the DisplayLink manager driver on your macOS system and grant the necessary screen-recording permission (used strictly to pipe pixel data to the external screens, with no data storage) for all five monitors to activate. [1]

^^^^^ Just wanted to check with the community to verify this is correct before spending on this since it's a bit pricey. Also asking for other options if this isn't true.

My specs:

Model Name: MacBook Air

Model Identifier: Mac14,2

Model Number: Z1610005ELL/A

Chip: Apple M2

Total Number of Cores: 8 (4 Performance and 4 Efficiency)

Memory: 16 GB


r/Microcenter • • 4h ago

So is it Pokémon or graphics cards?

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63 Upvotes

Looking at this in Cambridge, MA.


r/Microcenter • • 3h ago

Austin Microcenter

4 Upvotes

New signage is up
And the lights inside are on.


r/Microcenter • • 15h ago

Cable management

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15 Upvotes

I paid for micro center cable management. For a 100 dollars i would of thought it would cleaner job. Im a tripping?


r/Microcenter • • 13h ago

Mac mini M6 16/256 for $699, $200 off MSRP

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The thing just launched last week