Is Future Shop totally loosing its mobile user base? After reading this I think that it is a distinct possibility. Yikes!

Here in Canada the equivalent of Best Buy or Circuit City is Futureshop. Actually, Best Buy owns Futureshop and there are a few (or maybe just one) Best Buy locations in Canada now. But I digress… Point is, I have lost faith in Futureshop to meet my techno-geek needs. A few examples are warranted:

1. I want to wire my new house (yup, I just moved from Moncton to Riverview) with Cat6 cabling and put in a gigabit switch. Guess what? Futureshop in Moncton has no Cat6 cabling and no gigabit switches. On the Web, Futureshop offers a 3 ft Cat6 cable and a couple of gigabit switches. A local Staples by contrast has Cat6 cables in several lengths including 50 ft and gigagbit switches in stock. I still have to go elsewhere to get the box of 1000′ of Cat6 that I want, but again I digress…

2. Q: “Hey, Futureshop, how about a 1GB SODIMM for my laptop?” A: “Why would you want a SODIMM that big? 512MB is all you really want.”

3. Good luck finding a laptop with a hard disk that spins more than 4200 RPM. I know that the slower disk is adequate and appropriate for a large class of users, but that’s all they offer. Frankly, the local Costco offers better laptops than Futureshop. Futureshop has lots to choose from but it’s all mediocre home-use stuff. At least at Costco you can get a Tecra. [Read the rest]