Upgrading and Repairing PCs (18th Edition) by Scott Mueller
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Book Reviews of Upgrading and Repairing PCs (18th Edition)
Book Review: Upgrading and Repairing PCs
Summary: 5 Stars
The product arrived in a well packed package. The product was new condition. Delivered was with in the forecast arrival time.Book Review: Very Nice
Summary: 5 Stars
very useful reference and all around great book, if you so much as think you may want to pep up your PC, GET THIS BOOK.Book Review: Up to date ref
Summary: 5 Stars
Computers are changing so you have to stay up tp date. This a good source of info.Book Review: I am a Fan of this book, but ....
Summary: 4 Stars
I am a machine control technical person where my main focus is not on PCs, but I sometimes have to work on PCs as they are often associated with machine control systems. Over a year ago my 2003 vintage OEM PC motherboard stopped working. I felt I was ready to put together my first PC using as much of the previous PC components as possible. Based upon the advice of a friend I purchased a copy of the 13th edition as it was written in the time frame of my PC. The book was extremely helpful as it put a spot light on a lot of "fuzzy" knowledge I had gained over the years, or had heard talked about. I ended up reading the majority of the book. Anything in the book that applied to my situation at home or at work I read about and I felt filled to the brim with the information I gathered from the book.
Recently, my wife's PC motherboard stopped working. I gave her my 2003 vintage PC and started work on building a brand new PC for me. The first action I took was to purchase the 18th edition of Upgrading and Repairing PCs. When I progressed with trying to determine my future PC components and needed to understand questions of SATA & Multi-Core theory & PCI Express 1 PCI Express 2 & CPU comparisons & knowledge on the latest System memory RAM, I went straight to the 18th edition book. But I just did not feel like I got the warm feeling inside which knowledge and understanding gives you. Compared to what I got out of the 13th edition (which was appropriate to my vintage of PC) to what I got out of the 18th edition (which was appropriate to the build of my newest PC), I felt like the authors have not been on top of "updating" the "upgrading" book.
So with hopefulness, I attempted to go to the author's website. upgradingandrepairingpcs. com and found it led me to another website called informit. com. It appears the author has banded with a group of other technical people to share their knowledge and expertise on this informit website & buying the 18th edition book allows free access to a lot of this web site. But this website was not satisfying for a person with a specific problem or question who is trying to link up with an answer. I ended up gathering a lot of my knowledge and understanding from the multitude of technical websites available on the internet. Including information on what a person has to do to repair Windows XP in order to use a hard drive from a broken PC on a different hardware platform. I would have thought that situation would be very common for "Upgrading and Repairing" a PC.
With that all said, I am giving the book 4 stars and I really wanted to be able to give the book 5 stars. The author is very good at explaining things in just the right manner. The knowledge & understanding I have gained from the books was well worth the full retail price for one book and made me a groupie of the book. But the next time I have to build a new PC in a few years, I won't be buying the latest edition without making sure it has been given a healthy dose of updating.
Book Review: Could be thinner and better
Summary: 4 Stars
Authour should get rid of the information about old IBM 80286 processors and other vintage trivia. If we want to know about that we can order the 10th or earlier edition of the book. The 17th edition had a lot of good explanation about current technology but lacked the dual and quad processors that the 18th edition carries. Unfortunately they took out some of the good stuff (dual channel memory explanation for example) but again kept pages and pages about 80's computers.