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Product Description
With over 1 million copies in print, Peter Norton's Inside the PC, Seventh Edition addresses the needs of all users- novices to business professionals to power-users. Fully rewritten with new highly informative illustrations, this edition takes you far beyond a mere recounting of a PC's insides. Chapters on understanding bits, nybbles, and bytes, clarify the basics. Other chapters detail key enabling technologies and hot new developments, including IDE, ATAPI, SCSI, Firewire, and USB for peripheral connectivity. With Norton, you'll: understand what's inside your PC and why it's needed; find out how people are able to make PCs do the things they do; see what's special about mobile PCs; get an insider's view of how PCs were created; learn how the Internet, Java, and related developments are changing what you expect from your PC; understand the special hardware needs for intense multimedia experiences; and witness the birth of the "conversational" PC that understands and responds to you.
Amazon.com Review
You might say that Peter Norton's Inside the PC, Seventh Edition, is the theoretical counterpart to the Peter Norton Guide to Upgrading and Repairing PCs. Inside the PC will appeal to the computer hobbyist who feels a sense of urgency about knowing how systems work and the significant details about subsystems, technologies, and how the machines are made. This readable and entertaining (by computer book standards, that is) guide to hardware and operating systems is an excellent starting point for indoctrination into the deepest mysteries of the PC.
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