The Hand-Me-Down PC

By Morris Rosenthal

Lots of users are working away on old, hand-me-down equipment. This is the guide that tells them how to get more mileage out of their old machine via upgrades, repairs, or both. Step-by-step... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 007053523X
• ISBN13: 9780070535237
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
• Length: 325 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.3" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Decision Helper

Rare today is a family or organization that has not been offered a "previously owned" PC. Like used cars, the instruction book or an operating history if such ever existed has vanished. A PC-seller hooked on buying his or her own new PC every year may even ask for $money. The Hand-Me-Down PC is the ideal book for averting disappointment and creating confidence.The author's discussion covers outdated models (generally resist them), immediate past models (defined by the performance of their components) and then covers newer models and in effective detail, component upgrades. Some upgrades may already be in the hand me down PC and some may be obtainable. To acquire or not to acquire, that is the question, and author Rosenthal is at his best on decisions.The only paragraphs of the book that I do not personally consider useful cover network adapters and LANs. But, that kind of detail gives the prospective reader assurance that relevant answers are abundant in this book.