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How Computers Work, Tenth Edition is your full-color, fully-illustrated guide to your whole modern world of computing: your PC, your notebook, your tablet, your smartphone, all of it! With nearly 2 million copies sold, this is one of the world's most popular computer books: long admired for Tim Downs' exquisitely detailed illustrations, and Ron White's brilliance in simplifying complex technological concepts so everyone can understand. No other book on the planet covers everything you'll find here, and none rival it in elegance or flair. Now, White and Downs have completely updated their legendary classic for today's computing environment, and today's technologies. Their new Tenth Edition takes you under the hood with: * iPads and iPhones * Android tablets and smartphones * eReaders like Kindle, including eInk technology * Windows 8 * Touchscreens, LEDs, and LCDs * New flash memory and low power chips * Twitter, Facebook, and Skype * Fiber Internet * Texting * Multiplayer gaming, and much more How Computers Work, Tenth Edition covers all the ways you use your technology now: from how your browser streams video to how game consoles generate 3D worlds. It demystifies everything from the Internet and your home network to spyware and security software. A marvel in book publishing for two decades, there's never been anything like it -- and it's now better than ever!

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Book category Books in English Computing & information technology Computer hardware Personal computers

• Full title: How Computers Work
• Author: Timothy Downs, Ron White
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384
• EAN: 9780789749840
• ISBN: 078974984X
• ID: 04697594
• Publisher: Pearson Education
• Weight: 942 g
• Dimensions: 204 × 253 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: 08. December 2014

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