Tents are already starting to pop up outside of the Tustin, California Micro Center location in anticipation of the RTX 5090 release later this week. As you can read in our RTX 5090 review, it’s undoubtedly the best graphics card you can buy, but the campers might not be in it for the frames.
Photos of the campers were shared on the unofficial Micro Center subreddit (spotted by IGN), where two tents are currently set up outside of the Tustin location. Micro Center has discouraged eager customers from camping outside of its locations, though it shared a lengthy video about buying an RTX 5090 or RTX 5080 on release day. In that video, Micro Center says “we suggest coming early.”
Campers already appeared
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At $2,000 — and many suggestions that third-party models will be more expensive — the RTX 5090 isn’t exactly a mass-market product. However, it’s still likely to see large demand. Some retailers claim that they only have single digits of inventory for release day, so there’s a good chance that the RTX 5090 (and the RTX 5080) will sell out only moments after it goes on sale.
As previous GPU shortages can tell us, high demand and low availability is prime territory for scalpers. Listings for the RTX 5090 have already reached upwards of $7,000 on eBay, despite the card not being available for purchase yet. Prices will likely stay high for a while after the RTX 5090 releases — if inventory is low enough now, there’s a good chance it will stay that way for a few months.
Even when inventory stabilizes, the price of the RTX 5090 could remain high. As VideoCardz noted on X, even list prices for third-party models will reach up to around $2,800. There should be models available at list price, though board partners have reportedly restricted the inventory of list price models due to thin margins.
MSRP for custom RTX 5090 (according to @TechPowerUp):
🟡 ASUS ASTRAL: $2,800
🟡 MSI SUPRIM LIQUID SOC: $2,500
🟡 MSI SUPRIM SOC: $2,400
🟡 PALIT GAMEROCK: $2,200
— VideoCardz.com (@VideoCardz) January 24, 2025
The RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 both launch later this week on Thursday, January 30. As the early images of campers outside of Micro Center tip-off, cards will likely sell out immediately after release. Hopefully, we’ll see more inventory soon.
Apple is less than a day away from launching its highly anticipated OLED MacBook Pro with a touch-sensitive screen. But it appears that the upgrade is going to cost a pretty penny. According to a report by Bloomberg, Apple is reportedly eyeing a starting price of $2,899 for the 14-inch MacBook Pro, while the 16-inch version could start at $3,399 in the US.
"At $2,899, the 14-inch model would mark the highest starting price for a new MacBook Pro model, surpassing the $2,799 Apple charged for a 17-inch version introduced in 2006," says the report. The report claims that Apple is targeting a minimum price hike of $400 for its upcoming redesigned 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models.
I've spent a good amount of time digging into the spec sheet of the new M6 MacBook Pro (14-inch), and for all intents and purposes, this is a classic Apple "chip and connectivity" refresh. It's not a full redesign. The chassis, Liquid Retina XDR panel, speakers, ports, and battery, all of them carry over unchanged.
However, the M6 brings more cores, stronger on-device AI, higher memory bandwidth on the larger configs, and modern wireless. Here’s the practical rundown of what actually improved, and whether those gains are worth your money.
Two new highly requested iCloud plugins just got added to ChatGPT, giving people who rely on Apple’s Mail and Calendar services a way to search emails, check appointments, and manage their schedules directly through the chatbot.
The integration is rolling out to all ChatGPT plans, including the free tier. You can access it on the web, desktop, and iOS.