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Best Buy gains Velocity

Best Buy gains Velocity

Rich Brown Former Senior Editorial Director - Home and Wellness
Rich was the editorial lead for CNET's Home and Wellness sections, based in Louisville, Kentucky. Before moving to Louisville in 2013, Rich ran CNET's desktop computer review section for 10 years in New York City. He has worked as a tech journalist since 1994, covering everything from 3D printing to Z-Wave smart locks.
Expertise Smart home, Windows PCs, cooking (sometimes), woodworking tools (getting there...)
Rich Brown
Richmond, Virginia-based computer maker Velocity Micro announced in a joint statement with Best Buy on July 11 that, beginning in early August, the PC vendor will provide fixed-configuration gaming PCs to an as-yet-undetermined number of stores of the electronics retailing mammoth nationwide. However wide the distribution, we think this is great news. Hard-core gaming vendors, such as Alienware and others, have tried to go brick-and-mortar before with little success. Hopefully, Velocity Micro will have better luck in bringing the joys of proper gaming PCs to the non-Web-shopping masses.