Re: Who buys from them anyway?
I was going to ask the same question. I recently bought a new gaming rig from PC Specialist, and my impression is that a lot of other people are doing the same thing, judging by the activity on their forums. Plenty of other specialist builders out there, too. I suspect that those who want a PC that does more than run Office but don't have the time, energy or expertise to roll their own are staying away from the big manufacturers and going to those where they can precisely specify the hardware they want, without buying a load of other stuff that they don't, and where they can specify exactly what software they want on it (in my case Win 7 64-bit, Firefox as the default browser, and nothing else).
Biting the hand that feeds IT
