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One final tour of the studio The Full Nerd known as dwelling for a decade

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Doing so marks the top of an period for The Full Nerd, and whereas I remorse we received’t be recording the podcast right here on the PCWorld workplaces any extra, the silver lining is that this transition will allow us to be extra versatile with the present—and maybe create extra thrilling alternatives to do cool issues down the street, as soon as Adam will get settled in his new dwelling.

We really began recording the present absolutely remotely final week, and we took a break from recording this week so Adam can concentrate on his cross-country transfer. However earlier than he took off he made time to shoot a behind-the-scenes tour of The Full Nerd studio, and it’s positively value a watch should you’re a fan!

Adam shares quite a lot of enjoyable anecdotes and tales in regards to the building of the set and the early days of the present, to not point out plenty of close-up photographs of all of the cool tech that traces the partitions of the studio.

Test it out if you wish to be taught why we name this set the “storage” across the workplace, why there’s a GIF of Gordon eternally operating within the background of The Full Nerd and the way Adam left his mark on Intel’s 9900K CPU. Additionally, there’s a fast take a look at some super-rare {hardware} we carry on the set, together with the outdated Most PC Dream Machines and one among AMD’s super-rare “Challenge Quantum” NUC opponents!

It’s a enjoyable watch, and one which’s personally significant for me since I’ve sat in to document episodes of The Full Nerd every now and then and now recurrently shoot movies in the identical studio. That is additionally my second time working at PCWorld after leaving in 2013 to go do different issues, and after I got here again I used to be shocked at how completely Adam and the PCWorld workforce remodeled what was as soon as a sterile white studio into such a heat, inviting house.

So whilst you pour one out for the last decade of enjoyable we had recording The Full Nerd out of the storage, I hope you’ll be part of me in getting excited for what the subsequent chapter of the present can deliver now that we aren’t shackled to a studio in San Francisco. Nothing else is altering, after all, so look ahead to your common Full Nerd cohosts Adam Patrick Murray, Brad Chacos, and Alaina Yee coming again at you subsequent week with one other nice episode!