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Understanding Personal Computer Hardware: Everything You Need to Know to Be an Informed PC...
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by Steven Roman
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Paperback: 440 pages
Publisher: Springer; Pap/Cdr edition July 1998
Language: English
ISBN-10: 038798531X
ISBN-13: 978-0387985312
Product Dimensions:
9.2 x 7 x 0.9 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
Book Description
This is a book for the PC user who would like to understand how their PCs work. It is written for the reader who is not a computer or electrical engineer but who wants enough information so that they can make intelligent buying or upgrading decisions, maximize their productivity, and become less dependent on others for help with their computer questions and problems. The book provides a thorough yet concise description of the entire IBM-type PC, including its subsystems, components, and peripherals. The book concentrates on PCs based on the Pentium and Pentium Pro class processors. The book contains easy-to-do experiments that readers can perform to actually see how things work. Understanding PC Computer Hardware can be read cover to cover or used as reference source.
Book Info
Designed for PC users who want to make more intelligent buying & upgrading decisions, or who would simply like to understand how their PCs work. Paper. CD-ROM included. DLC: Microcomputers - Popular works.
Customer Reviews & Comments
Great explanations and diagrams packed into a relatively short book. I was able to read most of this in a couple evenings, yet I felt I learned quite a bit, for example the difference between a controller and adapter and why the IDE hard drive standard was considered an advance over ESDI and ST506. A relief from the plethora of 1500 pg "upgrade" books on the market, with their scholarly compendia of Intel chip specs and pinouts, and the superficial beginners books that are so broad-brush that you wonder if you've learned anything. One drawback is that the book is a few years old. Almost all the material is still useful, but some recent topics (Pentium III/IV, wireless, Windows 2K/XP, USB 2.0) aren't covered.
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