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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Postoasted - Tuesday, February 14, 2006 - link
First off great article. Have never bought from Newegg before, but after reading about it here I feel assured that they're not some fly-by-night chop shop. As a potential customer the fact that my package will come with peanut styrofoam is a big negative. But if the price is right I guess I can live with it.allometry - Wednesday, February 15, 2006 - link
I'm not sure if NewEgg is using the biodegradable peanuts made from a corn starch base. When you finally do place an order, grab one of those peanuts and run it under some water to see if it disapears.plonk420 - Tuesday, February 14, 2006 - link
have you a solution as versitile as peanuts? i sure don'tplonk420 - Tuesday, February 14, 2006 - link
how soon until they pay off the setup and their prices can go down to what they were when they first started? i miss those days...lsman - Wednesday, February 15, 2006 - link
Not when they are expanding to like China and rest and have to pay for those. :Dshabby - Tuesday, February 14, 2006 - link
Looks like a basement operation to me, they sure fooled me....Zebo - Tuesday, February 14, 2006 - link
Always like to read about orgins. Maybe next time. I've never had a complaint with newegg but there are others "just as good" and cheaper too such as Mwave.com Zipzoomfly.com for example. What really sets newegg apart is thier fantastic database for customers to search for exactly the prodcuts they are looking for and once found get a set of wonderful 360 degree pictures of the product! Great job!Hondaman4ever - Tuesday, February 14, 2006 - link
This is a good article for those Industrial Engineers, pretty interesting facility layout.JumpyBL - Tuesday, February 14, 2006 - link
Wow, great article. I used to do recieving work and Newegg's setup really makes me want to work there, looks fun, scanning in all the new products and handling tech stuff all day. Looking at all the CPU and memory products laying about is enough to give any tech enthusiast a stiff one. Thanks for the article and the contest Anandtech.thatsright - Tuesday, February 14, 2006 - link
GREAT Article!!One of those rare AT article that held my attention 100%, and I read EVERY page.