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Posted February 5, 2012 at 1:20PM
Having grown up in an age when, if you wanted to use a computer, you wrote a program and queued for a terminal, I find I'm hopelessly out of date, in terms of modern computing "nuts and bolts". Can anyone suggest a book or website I could use, to get myself "a bit up to speed" in reasonably basic terms. I have been researching a new laptop, but find myself forever running to Wikipaedia, to explain the teminology. I would be a lot happier actually learning the terminology. One can get a definition of terms like, for instance "overclocking",or "BIOS", but actually understanding ....?
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Posted February 5, 2012 at 2:01PM
You might find some interesting information in our laptop advice section:-
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Posted February 5, 2012 at 3:11PM
This seems quite a good site for help, http://www.helpwithpcs.com/jargon/jargonmenu.htm
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Posted February 8, 2012 at 10:08AM
With a Moden Computer its not much different to what you have just done. You typed a post and started this thread. You do not need to know about the innards unless you are wanting to build your own PC etc
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