New DigiKey!
OMG this is the best thing ever. DigiKey has upgraded their site and fixed every annoying thing
- you can now search both through catalog sections and attributes at the same time
- the stupid “in stock” button is now an attribute so you dont have to start all over if you want to check both in and out of stock parts
- got rid of the ‘catalog info’ page: all on one screen
- images (sometimes) of the parts - sweet!
- still nice and clean
They still haven’t fixed
- Search/order by price. So I have to do it by hand, which sucks.
- McMaster-Carry style - flip between catagory searches (for specific parts searches) and catalogpage (to get a sense of whats available) views. So I will have to keep my paper catalog on hand.
Now that Mouser has just caught up with Old Digikey, what will they do next? And will Jameco ever not suck?
January 15th, 2007 at 5:35 pm
What’s wrong with Jameco?
January 15th, 2007 at 5:42 pm
Jameco itself is awesome
but the search mechanism and online catalog is severely broken
January 16th, 2007 at 1:26 pm
Cool. And thanks for reminding me that I’d been meaning to place an order.
January 27th, 2007 at 10:33 pm
Too bad that it kept crashing, to the point they have gone back to their “Classic” interface.
Hope they get the new one back up soon.
February 10th, 2007 at 6:41 pm
I had to *make an account* just to log in and say: Jameco sucks! I have a “Jameco pile of shame” that I refer to whenever I’m tempted to use them again. I’ve got at least two 1/16th inch soldering tips that should be 1/64th. Plus my favorite, a tube of 74HC174 that I got because (as I later figured out) a search for 74HC164 turned up 4 options, the cheapest of which was not, in fact, a ‘164 at all.
I wish for 3 things on Digikey’s site:
1) Sort by price.
2) A global setting to say “I will never by more than X of anything”, to filter out the 3000-unit reels. You can sort of emulate this by selecting every packaging format besides “tape and reel”.
3) A way to register your preference for common attributes like package. If you shop for voltage regulators, for example, the option box for package has 100 items. I’d just like to say somewhere up front, “I’m okay with DPak, but I don’t like BGA, CSP, 0201, etc.”