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Summary: Fantastic for beginners and experts alike.
Review: I am an instructor of electronics and computers. I use this book as one of my outside sources to lecture to my students. If I were to choose a book to structure a computer curriculum, this would be my choice. I even have a purchase link to this book on my web page.Don't get me wrong. This book targets the technician and not the end-user. It will teach just about everything about how a computer works, but it will not teach you HOW to OPERATE a computer and the software installed on it. The step by step approach is easy to read and understand. It is a MUST have for anyone in the computer business.
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Summary: Perfect 10
Review: Best book to learn about computer for novice to A+ Certified professionals.
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Summary: Great book for any computer user
Review: I have gone through several editions of this book and keep the latest edition handy. I am a network administrator and also troubleshoot PCs. This book does an excallent job give an description of the latest and greated technology. The illustrations are fantastic! Kepp 'em coming!
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Summary: Best book out there for learning the basics of computing
Review: I highly recommend this book to anyone wanting to understand how their computer works. The great graphics throughout this book make it worth the money alone. It's so hard to read a book about computers with little or no illustrations to see what is being talked about. You don't have that problem with this book. You can see EVERYTHING that the book is talking about in great detail. The CD is also great and has been updated to include Pentium II systems.
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Summary: Excellent!!
Review: I originally bought this book for my wife to get her up to speed on computers. However, even with a degree in computer science and reading everything I can on computers, I find myself not being able to put this book down. It fills in all the gaps of my knowledge. Up to date... Pentium II, AGP, USB, DVD, RW CDROM, etc.
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Summary: very useful for teaching
Review: I'm teacher. This graphic book is the way to comunicate for other people they can't understand only words...
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Summary: A great book for learning computers.
Review: I just received " How Computers Work", Fourth Edition. I wanted to write and let you know how much I am enjoying it and certainly will be a big help for me in my studies as a Computer System Specialist. So easy to understand and it puts everything in a more clear picture on how the working of a computer really operates. The CD was great and really enjoyed how it was presented on each topic. I wish this was one of the main books we are required to have in my course at school. We are studying Networking and your chapters of this subject which was Peer to Peer, Star, and Token are easy to understand and the visual effects really help to understand what a network operations really does. Again, just wanted to let you know how much I am enjoying this book. It will really help me, which it has already in the few hours I been studying it.
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Summary: Not for a Beginner
Review: This book is filled with beautiful illustrations and incomplete explinations. The writer obviously know the material, and was very effective in presenting the information in a completely undigestible manner. In my opinion he should concentrate on trying to teach the information instead of trying to impress the reader with how much he knows...and you DON'T! And how about the type errors...too many to go into. The editor should proof read his work before sending it to press...but then he doesn't really need to because on the 4th page of the book is a disclaimer stating that this book is "AS IS" and that they don't take responsibility for the book's accuracy or completeness. I wouldn't want to be responsible for this book either! Well, that's my personal opinion...take it for what you will. Very Disappointed.
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Summary: Great book-easy to read - but fire the editor.
Review: Que is great for computer books - this book has great pictures and explainations but it looks like the editors were too quick in thier editing and just wanted to get it out - what do I mean? I just got the book and turned to the section on DVD - wanted to understand it better - I found a careless error - it says that DVD holds up to 8.5MB - now I know they ment GB and not MB - but this was just the first section I read - could it be an isolated incident? sure. or could it be a sign of things to come as I read on? I don't know - I hope not...and having bought Que books before - it probably is an isolated incident - but I hold Que to very high standards, as well as you should - I will continue to buy Que books but this is a disappointment...a small one but still. Disappointed.
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Summary: I couldn't put it down!
Review: This is a great book.. especially for people who feel any passion at all for technology. It explains everything down to how the electric circuit coming out of the wall travels up the cord and makes Windows 95 come up on your screen. It's a beautiful and comprehensive book. I recommend it to all of my friends!
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