Why local PC builders became a niche · Proposed air date:
Dr. Dave and Evil Steve look at a hardware market where Dell, HP, Acer and Lenovo compete at enormous scale and ask how a small local shop could survive by building desktop PCs. They remember the hobbyist market booming in the early and mid-1990s, then shrinking toward upgrades, replacements and specialized gaming systems.
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Proposed recording date: 2015-01-31. The exact broadcast date may differ.
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