10 Minute Guide to PC Upgrades (10 Minute Guides) (Paperback)

by Galen Grimes (Author)

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal
Galen offers a very concise, well-written, and well-illustrated guide to upgrading everything from memory, processors, and hard drives to power supplies, scanners, and even digital cameras. A perennially popular topic in all library settings, upgrading is a relatively simple task that more and more novices are taking on themselves. The weekend hardware hacker will love this little book; essential for all computer collections.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Description
The 10 Minute Guide to PC Upgrades offers simple, practical help for busy people who need fast results. Through goal-oriented, 10-minute lessons, you'll learn how easy it is to perform popular PC upgrades and get faster performance and better results from your PC.Ten minutes is all you need to learn how to: give your PC a diagnostics test on your ownAdd more memory to work with more software and information; replace the motherboard or processor to give your applications a speed boost ; replace the floppy disk drive, keyboard, or mouse; connect to the Internet at top speed with a new modem; add life to your games and presentations with a new sound card or speakers; upgrade to a newer, more powerful operating system; move up to the newest and fastest CD-ROM drives for faster game and multimedia performance; and add popular new PC add-ons such as scanners, digital cameras, and color printers.

Product Details

• Paperback: 197 pages
• Publisher: Que (March 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0789715724
• ISBN-13: 978-0789715722
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.2 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #3,687,030 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Handy Guide to PC Upgrading!, August 1, 1998

By A Customer

   The growth of the computer industry has been phenomenal. New computers are being designed and built every day. Thousands of computers leave factories around the world every day to be delivered to retail stores, homes, and businesses. Every day it seems that new technologies are being developed and made available to enhance the performance of our machines. New computer processing units (CPU's), memory chips, hard drives, modems, and storage devices lead the way in improvements being made.

     Have you considered upgrading your current system? Ever wonder how to upgrade it? Do you have the skill and patience necessary to do the work yourself? Should you pay someone else to do it? Should you dump it altogether for a new one? Are these and other questions running through your mind? If so, read on!

     Galen Grimes has written the 10 Minute Guide to PC Upgrades to offer valuable insight and help to assist his readers to upgrade their own PC's. This compact 200-page ! guide offers good detail about the art & science of upgrading PC's. Actual hands-on photographs demonstrate how to install CPU's, memory chips, sound cards, modems, SCSI cards, hard drives, internal diskette and tape drives, Zip drives, and a host of peripherals. Emphasis is placed upon installing device cables correctly. Beyond simple installation instructions the author offers brief but helpful information about each device, including how they work and how to select the right ones to meet your computing needs!

     This handy book is easy to read and follow. This book would make a great textbook for a beginner's computer class. It would also make an excellent companion to someone's first computer system! Readers can begin at the front of the book (recommended), or simply thumb through the rest of the book to find the specific instructions they need.

     Before spending big bucks to buy a new computer system consider upgrading your current one. You may be a bit surpr! ised at the savings of money and improved performance your ! current system could provide. Go for it!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It is a better guide for PC upgrading, March 25, 1999

By A Customer

It is a better guide for PC upgrading. I want to read it again

1.0 out of 5 stars Non-Fiction, May 5, 2008

By	Blue Tyson "- http://freesf.blogspot.com" - See all my reviews

There is certainly no need to waste your time with this, unless it came to you free, or for 10c that is, you can find plenty of things more useful, especially even in magazines.

Definitely do not bother with this book.