Understanding Personal Computer Hardware: Everything You Need to Know to Be an Informed - PC User - PC Buyer - PC Upgrader

by Steven Roman

Written for readers who are not computer or electrical engineers, this book is for those who want enough information to make intelligent buying or upgrading decisions, maximize their productivity, and become less dependant on others for help. It provides a thorough yet concise description of the entire IBM-type PC, including its subsystems, components, and peripherals, concentrating on PCs based on the Pentium and Petium Pro class processors. With...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B007YZXFWE
• ISBN13: 9780387985312
• Release Date: July 1998
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.0" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

best intro to PC hardware I've seen

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.