 We have got two huge announcements for you guys today number one April 14th I'm going to be here at the new memory express location at 1900 West Broadway in Vancouver for a meetup. I'm gonna be giving away swag I'm gonna be giving away tech advice if you're into that sort of thing and just generally hanging out number two Right, there's a new memory express here at 1900 West Broadway There are relatively new face in BC, but they've actually been in business in Canada for over 20 years With stores in Calgary Edmonton and Winnipeg. Let's go have a look inside It's actually kind of bizarre for me walking into this place because back when I was a product manager They were one of my key rivals. In fact, I remember one boxing day staying very very late into the office Waiting around for them to post a new deal Dropping our price by two dollars only to have them five minutes later drop theirs by another two dollars and going Back and forth and back and forth I mean now they've got their uber price beat policy which takes any authorized Canadian price Online or in store and beats it by 10% so that takes some of the fun out of it But I guess it's good for customers, right? Now. This is one of their smaller stores They've actually got a gigantic one in Richmond BC, but they still managed to pack a pretty impressive amount of computers Technology and system components. So let's have a look at what they got Closest to the entrance. They've got the key essentials Ethernet cables and And RGB fans Sorry before anyone gets triggered over here. We've got gaming chairs power supplies coolers and then tons of peripherals so gaming peripherals brands like razor and Corsair and then Less gaming peripherals. So this is mostly dominated by Logitech and Microsoft we've got your phones tablets Small compact laptops. I think it must be some kind of a law that you're not allowed to open a computer store unless you have like Adorable kittens on mouse pad and somewhere Anyway, got your cleaning supplies Got your external drives external drive enclosures if you prefer to provide your own drive got your gaming laptops So everything from sort of compact mid-tier performance stuff all the way up to like GTX 1070 based devices. You've got gaming PCs from vendors like Asus Lenovo and MSI and then on the other side you've got gaming monitors from LG BenQ MSI Also Asus and so what you can do is you can have the gaming experience of the PC on the gaming monitor and kind of demo Both of them on one island. This is a weird one They have gift cards in here for everything from stuff that makes a ton of sense like memory express League of Legends Steam Xbox Google Play two things that make absolutely no sense like Burger King Usually my significant other can tell when I forgot and I just grabbed something from the computer store But this way nobody ever has to know tons of gaming headsets right on the other side of the gaming mice And then this is monitor demo land where you can watch Someone who's got way cooler arm tattoos than I will ever have build a computer Also, they've got some other demos that they run on here throughout the day Networking land has everything from simple USB to Ethernet adapters to those like massive routers that look like scary upside-down crabs Attack its weak point and never one to abide by these sorts of Restrictions for mere mortals criminal scum I'm gonna bring you guys around to the back as well, so this is where you'll find memory cards more external drives This is where actually the bulk of the external drive stock is and then the good stuff. Oh So many CPUs and then even more important than that motherboards They've got all the major brands. You got your gigabyte. You got your MSI. You got your mercy Seuss Oh They've got their whole own section here, and this is cool If you buy CPU RAM and motherboard they will actually for free mount the CPU and the RAM check and make sure everything's working And even install the latest BIOS so that you don't have to deal with the hassle pretty cool Moving over here. We've got the even more exciting stuff. They've got graphics cards what 560s 570s 580s GTX 1050 Ti's 1060s 1070s 1070 Ti's 1080s 1080 Ti's 1070s 1070 Ti's 1080s 1080 Ti's Do you guys have look at them all look at all of these things? Do you guys have any idea how much these things are worth you got them just sitting here like any? random jackass could just you know get come out of here and like Coming around to the back This is where you'll find anything that's being held for a customer or anything that doesn't look as sexy on the shelf So you've got all kinds of SSDs two and a half inch and VME WD Samsung Kingston you pretty much name it RAM is also back here all the major brands So you got your Kingston you got your g skill you got your Corsair desktop laptop pretty much all back here They've also got hard drives back here lots of different selection there and even more graphics cards Look at this. That's where the shortage is coming from memory express was hoarding them all for their grand opening over on this side We've got all the kind of Less sexy looking stuff so you got your battery backups that you know still have packaging like it's straight out of the 90s Although they are important you got your backpacks you got your you know bathrooms a small office This is printer corner full of printer toner that kind of thing they've got some monitor overflow They've got some cases. They've got Wow Look at this Spindles of DVDs People still buy those Closing out the tour customer service land is a big part of the customer for life philosophy So they do 15 day returns and exchanges with no restocking fee on approved items with all the original packaging and accessories And then around this corner They've got their on-site technicians who handle our amaze system build system repairs And they even do IT business solutions, so come check it out. It's gonna be on April 14th They're actually open already, and there's free parking in the back the Vancouver rates be like what free parking wow That's the most exciting thing about it, but it's actually not on the 14th. I'll be here all morning. They're gonna have deals They're gonna have swag, and it should just be a pretty fun atmosphere, so I hope to see you guys there there There'll be more details at the link in the video description