# Micro Center, Cambridge: a computer store in Cambridge (2026 guide) Source: Local AI Registry, https://localairegistry.com/biz/ma/cambridge/micro-center-cambridge-ma. Free to reuse with a link back. By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Fact-checked against 2 sources. Updated 2026-08-14. Owner review: not yet. Canonical: https://localairegistry.com/biz/ma/cambridge/micro-center-cambridge-ma ## Photos - ![Photo 1](https://localairegistry.com/api/photo?src=https%3A%2F%2Fseoaesthetic-assets.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com%2Fphotos%2Fcmsr5wvc403h3yeciza1zmfab%2F0.jpg) - ![Photo 2](https://localairegistry.com/api/photo?src=https%3A%2F%2Fseoaesthetic-assets.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com%2Fphotos%2Fcmsr5wvc403h3yeciza1zmfab%2F1.jpg) - ![Photo 3](https://localairegistry.com/api/photo?src=https%3A%2F%2Fseoaesthetic-assets.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com%2Fphotos%2Fcmsr5wvc403h3yeciza1zmfab%2F2.jpg) - ![Photo 4](https://localairegistry.com/api/photo?src=https%3A%2F%2Fseoaesthetic-assets.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com%2Fphotos%2Fcmsr5wvc403h3yeciza1zmfab%2F3.jpg) - ![Photo 5](https://localairegistry.com/api/photo?src=https%3A%2F%2Fseoaesthetic-assets.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com%2Fphotos%2Fcmsr5wvc403h3yeciza1zmfab%2F4.jpg) ## In short Micro Center is a computer store in Cambridge, MA. Its AI Score is 65 of 100, which is good. Every fact on this page carries one of three marks: Confirmed (from their website, Google Business Profile, review sites, licensing boards, or measured by Local AI Registry), Visitor submitted (added by a person, with a date and how they know), or AI guess (what AI engines like ChatGPT and Gemini are saying, not confirmed by anyone). Every mark points to a reference at the end of this page. ## Key facts | Fact | Value | | --- | --- | | Type | Computer store | | Address | 730 Memorial Dr, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA | | Hours | Mon to Sat 10 AM to 9 PM · Sun 11 AM to 6 PM | | Phone | Nothing found | | Owner | Nothing found | | Rating | 4.5 across 5,858 reviews on Google | | Known for | Micro Center in Cambridge is best known for its extensive selection of GPUs and computer parts, making it a favorite among tech enthusiasts. Their knowledgeable staff enhances the shopping experience, especially for those seeking specific components. | | Prices | Nothing found | | Quietest time | Wednesday | | Parking | Nothing found | | Last verified | September 18, 2026, 8:57 PM | ## All the details Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from. | Group | Fact | Value | Mark | Evidence | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Location info | Address | 730 Memorial Dr, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 13, 2026 | | Location info | Description | Retail chain with a vast stock of computers & parts, plus software, gaming supplies & electronics. | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 13, 2026 | | Location info | Hours | Mon to Sat 10:00 AM to 9:00 PM · Sun 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 13, 2026 | | Location info | Name | Micro Center | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 13, 2026 | | Hours | Monday | 10:00 AM to 9:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 13, 2026 | | Hours | Tuesday | 10:00 AM to 9:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 13, 2026 | | Hours | Wednesday | 10:00 AM to 9:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 13, 2026 | | Hours | Thursday | 10:00 AM to 9:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 13, 2026 | | Hours | Friday | 10:00 AM to 9:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 13, 2026 | | Hours | Saturday | 10:00 AM to 9:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 13, 2026 | | Hours | Sunday | 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 13, 2026 | | Services | Service | Computer parts sales | AI guess | Nothing found | | Services | Service | Computer sales | AI guess | Nothing found | | Services | Service | Electronics sales | AI guess | Nothing found | | Services | Service | Gaming supplies sales | AI guess | Nothing found | | Services | Service | Software sales | AI guess | Nothing found | | Links | Website | https://www.microcenter.com/site/stores/cambridge.aspx?storeid=121 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 13, 2026 | ## Services and prices Services not read yet, back on Scan Day. ### Known for Micro Center in Cambridge is best known for its extensive selection of GPUs and computer parts, making it a favorite among tech enthusiasts. Their knowledgeable staff enhances the shopping experience, especially for those seeking specific components. ## The team Nothing found ## Visiting Micro Address: 730 Memorial Dr, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. Hours: Mon to Sat 10 AM to 9 PM · Sun 11 AM to 6 PM. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile, checked August 13, 2026 at 2:53 AM.) ### Location info from Google Business Profile Business description, written by Micro on its Google Business Profile: "Retail chain with a vast stock of computers & parts, plus software, gaming supplies & electronics." ### When to go Quietest day: Wednesday. Busiest day: Saturday. From the popular times on its Google listing. ### Parking and getting in Nothing found ### Nearby | Place | Type | Distance | | --- | --- | --- | | Car Parking | Parking lot | 1 min walk | | Bisuteki Tokyo | Japanese restaurant | 3 min walk | | Magazine Beach | Park | 3 min walk | | Quarter Acre Park | Park | 3 min walk | | Granite St @ Pearl St | Bus stop | 4 min walk | | Morse School Playground | Park | 5 min walk | ## Reputation 4.5 average across 5,858 reviews: Google 25. (Confirmed, read August 13, 2026.) Micro Center offers a vast array of tech products but struggles with customer service consistency and long wait times. (AI guess, from 5,858 reviews.) ### What people like - Wide selection of computer parts - Quick in-store pickup option ### What people do not like - Long waits at checkout - Inconsistent customer service - Confusing purchase policies ### Press No press story about Micro found yet. ### Awards None named yet. ### Directories Directory listings not read yet. ## Recent updates from Micro Micro hasn't posted an update here yet. ## Questions people ask ### Do they post anywhere? No answer yet ### is Cambridge expensive for this, or is it just here No answer yet ### opening hours at Micro in Cambridge, what are they these days? No answer yet ### what does Micro actually get right? No answer yet ### best computer store in Cambridge No answer yet ### ballpark before I book, what am I looking at No answer yet ### Why do people rate Micro? No answer yet ### walking in for a first visit, what happens No answer yet ### walk in here, or is it appointment only? No answer yet ### Micro, any chance to get in this week? No answer yet ### anything good on Memorial to kill time near Micro? No answer yet ### membership, worth it or not No answer yet ### Downsides nobody puts in a five star review? No answer yet ### Busiest day at Micro, anyone know? No answer yet ### Are there any special features here? No answer yet ### parking at Micro, where does everyone put the car? No answer yet ## What AI gets wrong about Micro We ask ChatGPT and Gemini about Micro. These are the answers that disagree with the record. ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Aug 13, 2026. | Fact | What AI says | What the record says | | --- | --- | --- | | Address | ChatGPT, read by Local AI Registry on Aug 13, 2026: 1 Micro Center | 730 Memorial Dr, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA | ## The AI Score: 65 of 100 The AI Score measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. Computer stores on the registry run 23 to 65. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. Micro scores 65. The same method scores every business on the registry. | Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | Micro | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Retrieval grounding | 26 | 75 | Whether you appear in the ranked results AI retrieves and cites: AI-Overview citations, organic top-10 for your money queries, and the Bing index ChatGPT leans on. | Good | | Off-property attestation | 20 | 40 | Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability. | Poor | | AI visibility | 14 | 100 | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Named in 2 of 2 answers that recommended anyone. | | Reviews & response | 12 | 89 | The star average is only one input. We also read volume, velocity, the specificity of review language, and response cadence. Specific reviews are what AI quotes verbatim. | Good | | Backlink & citation authority | 8 | 65 | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. | Good | | Google Business Profile | 8 | 78 | Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first. | Good | | Speed & mobile | 7 | 38 | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. | Poor | | Content freshness & schema | 5 | 51 | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | Fair | Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology ## How AI decides what to tell you about a computer store When you ask ChatGPT, Gemini or Google about a local business, the AI doesn't visit it. It reads what's already written about it: the business's website, its Google Business Profile, review sites, news stories and directories like this one. Then it repeats what those sources agree on. That's why AI gets small facts wrong. If Yelp says a place is open Mondays and the website says it isn't, the AI has to pick one. The table above shows the answers that disagree with the record today. The more sources agree, and the more specific they are, the more confidently AI recommends a business. A review that names who helped and what they did tells an AI far more than one that says "great place." ## How to choose a computer store in Massachusetts, with or without AI A few checks take ten minutes and tell you more than any rating. - Check that the hours and phone number match on Google, Yelp and the business's own website. Mismatches are how people end up at a locked door. - Read reviews that name a person and what they did. Vague praise is easy to fake. - Look for recent reviews and recent posts. A page nobody has touched in a year may not match the business today. - Ask for the price before you go, and ask what it includes. - Where the work needs a license, ask whose license it is and look it up with Massachusetts. ## How to read the marks on this page - Confirmed (solid circle): from a known source. The business website, its Google Business Profile, review sites like Yelp, Healthgrades and RealSelf, a licensing board, or measured by Local AI Registry. - Visitor submitted (hollow circle): added or corrected by a person, with the date and how they know, like a phone call or a visit. - AI guess (hollow triangle): what AI engines are saying right now. Nobody has confirmed it. ## About the author Steve Lee is the founder and CEO of Local AI Registry and sets its editorial standards. He is a former Google executive in Search and a former Microsoft executive, with more than 20 years in digital: search, local discovery, and how people find businesses online. He is based in Irvine. - Expertise: search at Google and Microsoft, AI search, answer engine optimization, generative engine optimization, local SEO, structured data and entity mapping. - Industry: medical aesthetics, injectables, med spa operations and marketing. - Disclosure: Local AI Registry sells services to business owners, including Micro if it claims this page. That does not change what this page says. Every fact carries its source. ## Entity map Every person, place, organization and treatment named on this page, with a stable ID and a public reference. The JSON-LD below connects them to each other. | Entity | Type | ID on this page | Same as | Relationship to Micro | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Micro Center | LocalBusiness | #business | https://www.microcenter.com/site/stores/cambridge.aspx?storeid=121 | Subject of this page | | Cambridge, Massachusetts | City | #city | Nothing found | City Micro is in | | Local AI Registry | Organization | #publisher | https://localairegistry.com | Publisher of this page | | Steve Lee | Person | #author | https://localairegistry.com/team | Author of this page | ## Topical map Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the computer stores in Cambridge, linked to the lists and towns around it. ### Lists - Best computer stores in Cambridge: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ma/cambridge/computer-store - Best businesses in Cambridge: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ma/cambridge ### Nearby - /boston: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ma/boston - /newton: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ma/newton - /somerville: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ma/somerville - /brookline: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ma/brookline - /waltham: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ma/waltham - /wellesley: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ma/wellesley ### Every list - Every leaderboard in Massachusetts: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ma ## Frequently asked questions ### What is AI search optimization for local business? Getting a business named when a neighbor asks ChatGPT, Gemini, or Perplexity for a recommendation. Some call it AI SEO, some call it generative engine optimization. Traditional SEO fights for ten blue links; this fights for the one answer an assistant says out loud. The AI Score on this page measures the eight signals that drive it. ### What is Local AI Registry? The public record of how AI sees local business. We score every business we list by one published method, we keep the questions people ask about it in one place, and we never sell rank. Looking up any business here is free. ### How does this page help a business get recommended by AI? Assistants read public pages before they answer. This one states what the business does, what people ask about it, and what the Record answers, in one place a machine can read. Correcting what is wrong here changes what an assistant repeats next. ### Who writes the answers here? Registry AI writes the first answer under every question, from the Record and the public sources named beneath it. Neighbors write the rest under pseudonyms. A registered owner can reply as the business, and their reply says so. ### I own Micro Center. How do I fix something or rank higher? Register the page. It is free, it takes about five minutes, and it lets you correct the Record and reply as the business. Nothing on this page is for sale, so the only thing that moves the score is the work. ## References ### Sources cited - [1] Google Business Profile, https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJ78xQi-N544kR1Ov7Tz4Ds9Q (accessed Aug 13, 2026) - [2] AI engine output: ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Aug 13, 2026, https://localairegistry.com/methodology (accessed Sep 18, 2026)