Welcome to a new segment about technology and computers around the
world. This is obviously not something that we're going to be able to do all the time, but whenever we kind of travel
somewhere, we'll try to pick up another episode. It's largely going to be about
the consumer experience of living there and shopping for things within the
country. This will obviously require different angles taken for different
various countries. Like if we did one in Taiwan, it would be much different than
this one which was done in Switzerland. And I believe that is natural. So
hopefully you guys find it interesting. And without further ado, let's do
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link in the video description. Before I even came to Switzerland, it was echoed
over and over and over again. Buy online
when you're looking for computer components. That's all anybody said. A
moderator on the forum, Alpen Wasser, happens to be from Switzerland and he
very specifically was like, "Yeah, nobody buys in stores. You just buy
online here." And I went on forums, local forums to Switzerland, traveler
forums for people that were visiting Switzerland and might need computer components. Everybody's saying buy
online. Okay, interesting. But I'm stubborn, so I want to try a store. So,
let's check it out. And what a store. It was huge. We went to Media Mart and this
place was massive. At first, it seemed like they'd have everything you could
have wanted. Peripherals out the butt.
They had keyboards, mice, monitors, headphones, speakers, whatever the heck
you wanted, and huge amounts of them on display ready to use, which is super
cool. It's kind of a problem in North America, as far as I know, at least
where I'm from. Like, people will ask what Cherry Switch they should use, and
they can't go try any of them, or like what's the comparison between, say, a
Cherry Brown and a ROR G. Well, at some place like Mediaart, you could actually
try that. Super cool. You can also try all the mouse, headphones, whatever.
It's awesome. Even their camera section had like really high-end nice cameras
and studio lights, which is kind of cool to see in a consumer electronic store.
But the computers themselves was a little bit of a let down. There was kind
of a a semi small row of them tucked under some monitors, forgotten in a back
corner of the store, and no components to speak of, which was a little rough.
Also, the prices, at least compared to North America, was a little brutal, but
that did seem to be a consistent theme throughout Switzerland. So, I'm not sure
if that's necessarily tied directly into only computer parts. Now, for buying
online, Switzerland isn't actually part of the EU, so there's some import costs
and problems there, but you're probably okay. There's a website called
topprice.ch, which is actually freaking awesome. There's a huge amount of online
computer parts stores in Switzerland somehow and you can filter all of their
prices through this website. And one thing that's actually really cool about
shopping online is that shipping is basically free on everything as far as I
could tell. Not quite everything, but the vast majority of things. And a lot
of them, depending on where you live, are even available for stuff like one
day shipping. So, it's not really that big of a deal that you can't go to a store to pick it up if you can just get
it that day anyways. Now, prices are kind of hard to compare to the brick and
mortar store because they didn't actually have the same things. But when
comparing other various things, the margin did seem to be slightly higher
for brick and mortar, which is kind of expected. So, that's not a huge deal.
And one thing that's really nice about the top price website is that uh well,
you can do a mass search for a product and find the cheapest one. So, you're
probably going to end up getting a pretty good deal. But then again, things are kind of expensive in Switzerland, so
it's probably still not going to be cheap. In terms of cell providers, we
were there for under a week, so we only really had time to try out one. There
are two or three, however, but I've heard that they're all kind of somewhat
the same in terms of service providing and cost. We paid 10 Swiss Franks and
were able to get coverage for the entire week with unlimited data and a bunch of
other things included. And that's actually really cheap. Also, it was
really easy to set up. The process was quite quick and it worked on our phones
immediately. Actually quite satisfied in terms of that. We went everywhere from
Geneva to Lousan to Lutern and a few
places in between and one a little bit further and yeah, coverage everywhere,
including when we were hiking out in the hills. So, I'm quite satisfied with the
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Australia. All right, guys. Thanks for watching. I know this is a little bit
different than kind of the standard stuff we put out there, but it's been a topic that's actually been quite
interesting to us at the office as we travel around the world, checking out
the different ways things are done, how hard or easy it is to buy computers,
checking out different tech malls, all that kind of stuff. So, hopefully you
enjoyed it. if you have ideas for different angles that I could take in the future or honestly places that I
should visit, although we'll probably only go there if there's a computer
show. But anyways, let me know in the comments down below or on Twitter. That
would be super helpful. This kind of segment is still growing quite a bit.
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