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Summary: A great book for hardware maint. on legacy and current sys's
Review: This is a great book for learning to upgrade systems. Mueller and Que go over techniques for Legacy and current systems. If you have a base knowledge, this book is for you. If you have an advanced background...this is a definite for your library
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Summary: If you could only have one PC reference book - this is it.
Review: This is my most often used computer reference book.
The book is up-to-date and is so well written that I never
had to read lines over and over to get the point. I was the
envy of my computer class because I owned this book. I was
so impressed by the 3rd edition that I e-mailed the author
and asked when the 4th edition would be in print. He
responded and the book was published on time and I must
have bought one of the first copies available-straight from
the publisher. If you can only afford one PC reference book,
this is it.
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Summary: Outstanding
Review: If it isn't in this book, you don't need to know it. Current, well organized and specific.
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Summary: Good book to own, but needs proofreading
Review: I used this book for a hardware course. The book gives detailed coverage on almost all topics, except printers. (The Linux edition has one). Because it does not have troubleshooting section, we also use Bigelow's book (ISBN 0072132728).
The book has some errors that could be avoided. Some examples:
1.On page 407: DRAM has "refresh rate of 15us (microseconds)" [3rd P]. This contradicts with "data to be refreshed (essentially rewritten) every 15ms (milliseconds) or so." [5th P on page 404] (Refresh rate should be 16ms).
2.Page 103: "Th is section..." [2nd P]; page 410: "f*ound" instead of "found" [1st P]; on page 411 the phrase "Cache designs were originally" is repeated; on page 416: "..aA newer.." [last P]; on page 495: "MMMany other..." [1st line]; on page 774: "Some peoplepeople..." [second Para. from bottom].
If used as a reference, the book is excellent. I hope that the next edition is better. (I deduct one star for the errors)
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Summary: Technically good, but . . . . .
Review: Buy it. You can just open it to any random page and you will find material that can help you with some kind of problem you're having. The hours of footage showing Scott Mueller on the included CD is also incredibly interesting. I would say this book is worth the forty dollars charged here or the sixty at a brick and mortar bookstore. I would highly recommend.
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Summary: Too wordy to explain
Review: I read a lot of review from people about how good this book is. I personally think this book is bad for the beginners. I have experience so I understand what he is talking about. Every edition he just pad it. There is more and more paper. I would recommend the Mark Minshi book on PC. That one is the best. That book talks about Pcs. On the other hand, there is a bunch of computer stories here. Did you want to know how he took off his shoes and socks and walk around in a presenation? I personally think it was stupid. I think the book is a bunch of dry talk. If you want to build and maintance Pcs, go to the Mark Minshi book. This books looks good because it has 1600 pages. About 250 pages are information with the less being dried talk.
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Summary: A True Classic
Review: Scott Mueller's 13th Edition is the latest in his classic work on personal computers. This PC hardware repair manual is the best on the market. Considering that PC hardware is designed, engineered and manufactured by so many companies around the globe, it is amazing that there even exists a single compliation that brings all these diverse hardware facts together in one book. This book is to the computer technician what an auto shop manual is to a mechanic. You get all the details of the hardware so that you can work competently and confidently. The author is a dedicated expert on computer hardware and the computer industry is lucky to have him share his knowledge and to keep updating this usefull tool each year. There is no other book that comes close to this one for PC hardware facts. Highly recommended.
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