Well this ought to make things interesting! This is CarbonJohn,
the new, mild mannered, daytime, "analogue", alter-ego of ehMax. What
the heck is this all about you ask?

Well, as the owner of ehMac, I've always tried to keep my online "digital"
persona as ehMax separate from my private, "analogue" daytime life as John.
My daytime job for the past 9 years has been working in the Mac biz. First
working as an Apple Service Technician, then later as an Apple sales
consultant for an Authorized Apple Reseller.

With recent developments, I was put in the situation of finding a new place of
employment... not necessarily for the reasons hinted at in the article.

An extremely exciting opportunity came knocking at my door, and I'm thrilled
to announce that Carbon Computing will be opening a full Authorized Apple Dealership in
Kitchener, Ontario! Carbon Computing KW will be located at 445 King St. W. in Kitchener,
right at the corner of King and Victoria in the heart of Kitchener. (For those of you taking an early
drive by for a quick peek, remember please that we are undergoing renovations.)
Please email me with your contact info if you wish to be placed on our grand opening invite.

In a few weeks, we'll be opening temporary corporate offices in Kitchener at
30 Duke Street while we prepare the new location to open either late May or
early June. I'm already helping lots of Mac users in the KW area with purchases, so if
you're from the KW area and you have some Mac based needs today, give me a shout!

I hope this will be really exciting news for Mac users and Mac based
businesses in the Kitchener-Waterloo, Cambridge, Guelph and surrounding
regions! Things I'm particularly excited about are having a showroom with
almost every Apple product on display, and having them in stock,
ready to take home! We'll also be able to leverage the many resources from
our main Toronto location.

Also exciting, will be having a highly visible, central, easy to find and park
location not only for existing Mac users, but also for the many potential
new Mac users and businesses in the region may not know of an Apple
dealership available to them.

Other things we are looking at include having more Pro Audio and Video
solutions available to the region, as well as Print & Graphics products and
solutions from Adobe, Xerox, and GretagMacbeth etc... to enterprise Xserve
Server and storage solutions. We will also be selling used systems and
taking trade-ins on used systems making is easy for users to upgrade.

It will be a dream-come-true having the proper resources in place to help
service the many great Mac users and Mac based businesses in the KW area (And
future Mac users and Mac based businesses!)

So with my direct involvement with ehMac and Carbon Computing as the
exclusive Authorized Reseller sponsor on ehMac, I thought it'd be best, in
the interest of full disclosure, to "come out of the closet" so to speak.
I thought coming up with the separate identity of CarbonJohn for Carbon
related postings separate from my ehMax identity for ehMac specific postings
will be a fun way to keep things separate.

If you know any Mac users in the KW region, please feel free to let them know
Carbon KW is coming to town! I'd really appreciate you all spreading the word
as much as you can!

And, if you're in the Kitchener-Waterloo region and you have any current Mac
based computing needs, give me a shout!.

If you have any questions or comments, feel free to PM or email me, or use
your discretion to post publicly.



Carbon Computing President Ron Paley with CarbonJohn, Retail Sales
Manager of Carbon Computing KW and "Mayor" of ehMac.ca

Welcome John!!!!
this is a nice community, just be careful not to pissed the Mayor (he's uptight).

John is ehMax, under an alias.

Woot on the new developements, though!

I think gastonbuffet got that Lars.

Thanks for the kudos.

Just shoot me if I ever start talking about myself in the 3rd person though or if either user accounts starts to compliment the other.

Alright, John!!! It's about time. I've been waiting patiently for you to spill the beans here on ehMac.ca

This is great news! I love the location you've selected for the new Carbon K-W. Very central and easy to find AND Just a few blocks from my house.

Looking forward to the Grand Opening of Carbon K-W.

You can be sure we will announce it at the Waterloo Region Macintosh Users Group meeting next Thursday night.

Congratulations on this development and your new position John!

My question is whether this sponsor exclusivity can and will change to allow for other resellers especially those in non-Carbon territories to advertise on ehMac?

Since members cannot overtly shill for their own businesses within forums, it should make sense that with a level playing field, they can purchase advertising on ehMac. It's a lot better than the mindless GoogleAds that are dubious.

My God. You're a TALL man. I kind of got that in some of your 'EhMax" pics of the past

Congratulations, John -- and Ron!

Back into semi-retirement retirement I go.

let's put a curtain of smoke on gmark2000 post...

and talk business.

Mr. Mayor, if i get Bono to show up on your grand opening, (not the band, not to sing) and maybe sign a few ipods, would you give ME a PowerMac 2.5(maxed out) and 2(two) 30" cinema displays? if yes, i'm all over it.


now back to gmark2000

Always suspected you were a John.

Well, congratulations. Does this mean you won't be camping out for the Yorkdale opening?

Thanks Chipper! You can be sure Carbon KW will be there to really support WatRMUG!

I'm really, really excited about the location too! We have some great plans to renovate it!

The store is about 3000 square feet. Right at probably in biggest intersection of Kitchener. Victoria turns into highway 7, making it easier for our Geulph customers to get to us.

Here's a close up Google Map

Here's a farther away Google Map.

One more further back still.

Aim was to get nice central location to Kitchener, Waterloo, Cambridge and Guelph with high visibility. Lots of cars driving by that location!

Also, very decent parking especially for a downtown location.

And icing on the cake... it's right beside my mountian bike shop, Ziggy's Cycle! And, kitty-corner to The Beer Store!

Also, right across from the soon to be renovated Kaufmen Lofts which will be sure to house some cool design companies.

Will also be right across from new University of Waterloo Campus Pharmacy School slated to open in 2006.