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Title: Build Your Own Pentium III PC by Aubrey Pilgrim ISBN: 0071352015 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Pub. Date: 01 October, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.27
Rating: 2
Summary: Build Your Own Pentium III PC
Comment: As with most of the "build your own" books on the market, this one is pretty out of date. Also, the book supplies you with very little information which would help you select which components will best meet your needs and which components work best together (ie- which motherboards, video graphics boards ...). Basically this book just explains in very breif detail how the system all works together.
The most difficult thing in building your own system IMHO is deciding which components will best meet your needs and will work well together. I did not get any helpful info from this book along these lines. In fact the author does not even seem particularly knowledgeable about the subject matter in the book. I think I could have wrote a better book and I do not even consider myself a computer geek.
Bottom line, I waisted my money...
Rating: 5
Summary: Very good book for the novice....
Comment: I was a complete, absolute novice knowing nothing at all about PCs. This book is not just about instructions on how to make your own PC. It gives really important history and background information which is absolutely vital and fundamental to any novice trying to get a good grasp of the subject. By the time it came down to actually building my own PC, I had as good a grasp of the subject at this level as the author himself without having read any other book on the subject. It gives you all the information YOU need to be able to make your OWN judgement about what YOU WANT to build. Best of all, the author has written it in such a personal fashion that you will feel he is actually talking to you and you can imagine him working away in his garage - enabling you to see and appreciate things in a crystal clear way. It left me absolutely mesmerised. Every technical book is only valid for as long as the technology mentioned in it is also valid when you read it. Since computer technology moves really, really fast, the reader should consider some information that was current when the book was written to look at it from a historical point of view - this does not negate the validity of the information in any way. The author makes this fact clear by mentioning phrases like "By the time you read this...." followed by his comments about how things might have changed when you are reading the book at your time - and quite often he is spot on about his predictions, which I am sure needed a bit of digging. The flow of his language is wonderful and I feel sorry for those who criticise it because their first language isn't English - mine isn't either. The only matter you should be careful of is when you read about binary numbers but thats really to do with software at a core level - something that really did not concern me at this level. I have now made 2 PCs, connected to a third, made my own network, and studying MCSE to change my career. Congratulations on a book well conceived, thought out, planned, executed and written!!!!!
Rating: 1
Summary: Author Gives His Own Book 5 Stars ?!?
Comment: The book itself is so-so; it has some good information in it, nothing great, and you will certainly need to consult other sources, in print or on the Web, or get help from an expert, before you're able to build a fully functional computer.........
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Title: Build Your Own PC, Third Edition by Morris Rosenthal ISBN: 0072195584 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Pub. Date: 18 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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Title: Building a PC For Dummies® by Mark L. Chambers ISBN: 0764507826 Publisher: For Dummies Pub. Date: October, 2000 List Price(USD): $21.99 |
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Title: Upgrading and Repairing PCs (13th Edition) by Scott Mueller ISBN: 0789725428 Publisher: Que Pub. Date: 27 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
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Title: Building Your Own PC: Buying and Assembling With Confidence by Arnie Lee ISBN: 1557553556 Publisher: Abacus Software Pub. Date: 15 January, 1999 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: How to Expand & Upgrade PCs (2nd Edition) by Preston Gralla ISBN: 0789725002 Publisher: Que Pub. Date: 15 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
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