Peter Norton's Inside the PC (Peter Norton (Sams))

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.