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Ask HN: Is there an Akihabara equivalent in USA?
Is there an Akihabara equivalent in the USA? Any in NYC? Seattle? Boston? Silicon Valley? Austin?
- jdietrich 14y agoNo there isn't, but Akihabara isn't very interesting to a hacker; For the most part it's a tourist destination selling pop-culture artifacts. What you want is a US equivalent of the SEG market, which doesn't exist either. http://www.evilmadscientist.com/2009/a-visit-to-the-electronics-markets-of-shenzhen/ http://www.evilmadscientist.com/2009/a-visit-to-the-electron...
- staunch 14y agoEven when I lived 5 minutes from Akihabara I rarely bought anything there. You can do so much better ordering online.
- diminium 14y agoHow was their used test equipment like? Was it overpriced? Was it useable?
- elg0nz 14y agoAFAIK Fry's is the closest thing we have here in the valley.
- dear 14y agoBestbuy
- gadders 14y agoIn NYC go to B&H. Not sure if it's directly equivalent, but it's kind of like a mad, orthodox Jewish cross between Best Buy and Santa's workshop. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%26H_Photo_Video http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%26H_Photo_Video