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Pocket PC Ref
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Author: Thomas J. Glover, Millie M. Young
List Price: $14.95
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ISBN: 1885071388
Publisher: Sequoia Pub (August, 2002)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 46,233
Average Customer Rating: 4.38 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 1 out of 5
Poor editing on a book of this nature.
This book would get five stars,but, it has a fatal error in my opinion. On page 64 of I/O interfaces, it lists that USB 2 has a bandwidth of 480 megabytes(MB) per second, which should say 480 megabits(Mb) per second. It makes one wonder what other mistakes there are, and kinda defeats the purpose of this book. This book is to provide solid facts on the spot, when you need it. So if someone, not very tech knowledgable, needed vital data on the specifications of USB 2.0, they would be left with wrong information.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Excellent book!
Anyone that works on pcs at all needs this book in their arsenal. It has many support numbers that come in handy! Don't pass this one up!
Rating: 2 out of 5
Could be much better
I am editing this review after having owned this book for several months to LOWER my original rating. I was originally disappointed because it was somewhat out of date. This disappointment has increased as I have realized that it has almost nothing of value to offer with newer equipment. In fact, I find that the only reason I ever reach for it is because I've made important notes in the flyleaves.Original review follows: Just got the "hot off the presses" 11th edition (hot as I write this anyway). While it's somewhat updated and the best yet, it leaves a lot of room for disappointment. Perhaps its time to replace the resistor color code tables with summaries of the IEEE and ITU standards, certainly someting more needed in the 2001 world of PCs. When was the last time anyone changed a resistor in a PC other than at the component manufacturer site? And it doesn't yet contain a power supply wire color code, which would be far more useful than resistor codes. There is info on Win98 but not on Win2K or ME (or even NT). The processor and socket list is expanded (long overdue) but still hopelessly out of date and incomplete (and wrong in at least a couple of places). Fixed disk drive lists are way behind the times with only the most minimal information to help keep the confusing IDE/SCSI/EIDE PIO 1/2/3/4/5 ATA33/66/100/133 drive, BIOS, MB chipset and cable standards straight.
This is a good book for troubleshooting, repairing and maintaining the older PC, but it is not even treading water well in a world of P4 or Thunderbird processors, multi-gigabyte drives or 400Mhz RIMM memory. Still, I have to give it four stars (would be 4.5 if Amazon allowed) because there simply is nothing better out there except keeping file folders full of manufacturer specs, white papers and web page printouts.
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