Sleeping with the enemy...
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2018-05-06
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1,222 words · ~6 min read
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we have got two huge announcements for you guys today number one april 14th i
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am going to be here at the new memory express location at 1900 west broadway
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in vancouver for a meetup i'm going to be giving away swag i'm gonna be giving
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away tech advice if you're into that sort of thing and just generally hanging
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out number two right there's a new memory express here
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at 1900 west broadway they're a relatively new face in bc but they've
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actually been in business in canada for over 20 years with stores in calgary
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edmonton and winnipeg let's go have a look inside
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it's actually kind of bizarre for me walking into this place because back
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when i was a product manager they were one of my key rivals in fact i remember
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one boxing day staying very very late
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into the office waiting around for them to post a new deal dropping our price by
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two dollars only to have them five minutes later drop theirs by another two
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dollars and going back and forth and back and forth i mean now they've got
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their uber price beat policy which takes any authorized canadian price online or
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in store and beats it by 10 so that takes some of the fun out of it but
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i guess it's good for customers right now this is one of their smaller stores
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they've actually got a gigantic one in richmond bc but they've still managed to
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pack a pretty impressive amount of computers
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technology and system components so let's have a look at what they got
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closest to the entrance they've got the key essentials
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Ethernet cables
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and RGB fans sorry before anyone gets triggered
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over here we've got gaming chairs power supplies
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coolers and then tons of peripherals so gaming
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peripherals brands like razer and Corsair and then less gaming peripherals
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so this is mostly dominated by logitech and microsoft we've got your phones
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tablets small compact laptops i
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i think it must be some kind of a law that you're not allowed to open a
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computer store unless you have like adorable kittens on mousepad somewhere
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anyway got your cleaning supplies got your external drives external drive
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enclosures if you prefer to provide your own drive got your gaming laptops so
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everything from sort of compact mid-tier performance stuff all the way up to like
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gtx 1070 based devices you've got gaming
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pcs from vendors like ASUS lenovo and MSI and then on the other side you've
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got gaming monitors from lg benq MSI
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also ASUS and so what you can do is you can have the gaming experience of the pc
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on the gaming monitor and kind of demo both of them on one island
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this is a weird one they have gift cards in here
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for everything from stuff that makes a ton of sense like memory express league
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of legends team xbox google play
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two things that make absolutely no sense
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like burger king usually my significant other can tell
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when i forgot and i just grabbed something from the computer store but
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this way nobody ever has to know tons of gaming headsets right on the other side
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of the gaming mice and then this is
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monitor demo land where you can watch someone who's got way cooler ARM tattoos
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than i will ever have build a computer also they've got some other demos that
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they run on here throughout the day networking land has everything from
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simple usb to Ethernet adapters to those like massive routers that look like
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scary upside down crabs attack its weak point
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and never one to abide by these sorts of
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restrictions from your mortals criminal scope i'm gonna bring you guys around to
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the back as well so this is where you'll find memory cards uh more external
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drives this is where actually the bulk of the external drive stock is and then
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the good stuff oh so
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many cpus and then even more important than that motherboards they've got all
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the major brands so you got your Gigabyte you got your MSI you got your
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where's ASUS they've got their whole loan section
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here and this is cool if you buy CPU RAM and motherboard they will actually for
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free mount the CPU and the RAM check and make sure everything's working and even
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install the latest BIOS so that you don't have to deal with the hassle
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pretty cool moving over here we've got the even more exciting stuff they've got graphics
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cards what 560s 570s 580s gtx 1050 tis
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1060s 1070s 1070 ti 1080s 1080
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ti do you guys have look at them all look at all of these things do you guys
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have any idea how much these things are worth you got them just sitting here
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like any random jackass could just you know
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get come out of here and like
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come around to the back this is where you'll find anything that's being held
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for a customer or anything that doesn't look as sexy on the shelf so you've got
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all kinds of ssds two and a half inch NVMe wd samsung kingston you pretty much
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name it RAM is also back here all the major brands so you got your kingston
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you got your g skill you got your Corsair desktop laptop pretty much all
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back here they've also got hard drives back here lots of different selection
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there and even more graphics cards
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look at this that's where the shortage is coming from
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memory express was hoarding them all for their grand opening over on this side
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we've got all the kind of less sexy looking stuff so you got your
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battery backups that you know still have packaging like it's straight
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out of the 90s although they are important you got your backpacks you got
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your you know bathrooms a small office this is printer corner full of printer
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toner that kind of thing they've got some monitor overflow they've got some
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cases they've got wow look at this
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spindles of dvds
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people still buy those closing out the tour customer service
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land is a big part of the customer for life philosophy so they do
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15 day returns and exchanges with no restocking fee on approved items with
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all the original packaging and accessories and then around this corner
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they've got their on-site technicians who handle rmas system build system
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repairs and they even do it business solutions so come check it out it's
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going to be on april 14th they're actually open already and there's free
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parking in the back the vancouverites be like what free parking wow that's the most
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exciting thing about it but it's actually not on the 14th i'll be here
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all morning they're gonna have deals they're gonna have swag and it should
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just be a pretty fun atmosphere so i hope to see you guys there there will be
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more details at the link in the video description