Store Update

Well some of you have been in and some of you can't, because you're in other provinces or countries. So I thought I'd share some photos of the store. I'm SO sorry for the awful quality. Our digital camera has gone AWOL, so we've been using Rob's cell phone to take these. They're a little fuzzy, but you certainly get the idea of what we've been doing.

When we signed the lease back in December, we were really excited about the potential for this location. We're in the heart of Downtown Kitchener, and there have been a lot of exciting upgrades to the way that downtown is presenting itself. One thing was missing though, which was a computer store. There's one other computer store in the downtown, which also sells shoes and displays the shoes on top of the row of monitors in their front window. Let me assure you, this is NOT the look we're going for. We want to be modern. We want to be well presented. We want to be the professionals that people turn to. And we want to be friendly, accessible and approachable to anyone who comes to us.
So when we signed the lease, the first thing we wanted to do was change the colour scheme. After all, the store used to look like the photo to the left.

Notice the dark red walls, offset with a hint of black. Bleurgh. So we planned. We demolished. We reconstructed. A LOT of time and hard work later, and we had a store we were proud of. We're still developing the look, and we're constantly thinking of ways we can change things, but for right now, I can really say how proud I am of everything we've put into OnTech so far. The inside of the store looks great!

We've changed the paint and added shelves. In both of these photos you're looking at the same side of the store, and you can really see the difference. That display is where we keep everything Notebook related. If we find accessories for notebooks - that's where they'll be.

The speakers you see hanging there are something we just received this week. They're very cute, and come in a wide variety of colours. Mostly we seem to have pink, but there are also some orange, blue and purple ones too!

On the other side of the store, we have our front desk, and also our desktop PC display.

As you can see, we've got a lot of computers in the store, and we're always on the lookout for more ways to show people how cool computers can be!

The front of the store is where we keep our greatest computer, designed and built by ourselves (mostly Rob!). If you haven't been to the store to see this, you should definitely come on down soon. We present the Aqua PC!The Aqua PC is a fully functional computer contained inside a perfectly normal fishtank. Oh, and we spiced it up a little by adding some LEDs, a bubbler, and a thermometer and the computer runs flawlessly. The fishtank is filled with what looks like water but I'll let you in on a little secret - it isn't water. If you want to find out what it is, you'll have to come in and see it for yourself! ;)

Oh, and just to showcase the Aqua PC even more, we made sure that the computer was set up and ready to use by anyone who wants to test it in-store. We also added a slideshow of fish and underwater creatures which runs all day and night! And let me tell you, the Aqua PC looks amazing at night with the slideshow, and the LEDs running.