Talk:Personal computer hardware/Archive 1

Archive 1

Hardware

I have a problem with "Computer Hardware" being subsumed under "Personal Computer Hardware". When does the generic become a specific subordinate of itself? What about "TV Circuit Board Computer Hardware, iPhone Computer Hardware, Electron Microscope Computer Hardware, Ebay Computer Hardware, etc..

I have to agree. Computer Hardware in general is a much larger scope of objects and items. Many of these things are found in smaller imbedded computers or mainframes and never found in a personal computer. An analogy could be likened to engineeering (ie computer hardware) and a specfic field of engineering (ie personal computer)--70.127.160.246 (talk) 20:11, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

Perhaps we need an article on "Computer Hardware" in general before we start defining the concept of "Personal Computer Hardware".  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jjalexand (talk • contribs) 17:34, 20 July 2010 (UTC) 

Maybe it is a good starting point to create a category dealing with , and another one on .

Info

Does al this information tell you how to install your own hardware. for example a pci card for digital camera

tarabut I am tempted to mark it as a stub as it has lots of links and not many words. It would be nice to have some holistic explanation of how all these bits work but maybe that's somewhere else? --(talk)BozMo 13:44, 14 May 2004 (UTC)

I agree that it needs a lot more information, and some consistancy would be nice as well. I am considering marking it as needing some cleanup, and plan on working on it a bit once I get a chance. Robogymnast 20:17, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

Frankly I'm not even sure what the point of this article's existence is. Currently it seems to be nothing but an overlap of what should be covered by a category. Doesn't help at all that this article is PC-centric and (if we were to name the article by its current content) should be called "PC hardware". -- mattb @ 2006-11-15T04:40Z

I'm no expert in this area, but just to note that it seems to me that, as Matt pointed out, the bulk of this article could be very useful in the Personal computer article. A merge, or a more coordinated division of labour, might be something to consider. Dast 01:12, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

There is no use of a article to be this small, more information has to be added to it.But there will be no use to merge it with another article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Naveedahmedkhokhar (talk • contribs) 11:36, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

it should be split inside a category description and a list of further readings.

Better organization

I wonder if the Computer hardware#Computer hardware subsection (needs a better name too, since it has the same name as the main article) could maybe use a better format? The big list is kind of cumbersome to read, navigate and edit. If noone objects, I will rework this section to have a better section title and have sub sections and maybe some little descriptions (if I have time) instead of being just one massive list. I will do this later today, unless someone else has an issue with it, or wants to do it themselves (I will also add it to the todo list) --DFRussia 16:51, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

Okay, I redid the subsection to include a better name and have a better structure than just a big list. I also expanded on some of the description, but it still needs a lot of work. I also think so of that typical hardware should be moved around. Espeshially since a lot of it no longer shows up on modern computers (maybe create a legacy hardware section?) --DFRussia 04:06, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

great job.Bogdan

Revert

I just realized that 202.123.9.194 made an edit that can be seen in this diff: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Computer_hardware&diff=151075185&oldid=150650600 A lot of stuff was changed so I have reverted to the previous edit. DFRussia has done some major reorganization since then and I will try to fix it. Leedeth 09:50, 18 August 2007 (UTC) >:the revert procedure I don't agree. If there is a spelling error you should correct it. If an user stood in front of the monitor for an hour or so he could see you as disrespectful to him. Afterall I created a category and a guy blocked my IP, gave me a warning, deleted the category I was working on, and removed the category classification on articles revised by me, all this in conjuncture with a question if to remove a blank category, and in the very next mornig during which I have been working on classes of articles. Bogdan

Ok it's done. It gave me a headache though. Leedeth 10:19, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

My bad for not seeing the vandalism in the first place --DFRussia 23:27, 18 August 2007 (UTC)