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To-do list for Computer hardware: edit · history · watch · refresh
  • Add descriptions
  • Do merge with peripherals —The preceding unsigned comment was added by FranzSS (talk • contribs) 03:31, August 21, 2007 (UTC).
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Does all this information tell you how to install your own hardware. for example a pci card for digital camera

tarabut I am tempted to mark it as a stub as it has lots of links and not many words. It would be nice to have some holistic explanation of how all these bits work but maybe that's somewhere else? --(talk)BozMo 13:44, 14 May 2004 (UTC)

I agree that it needs a lot more information, and some consistancy would be nice as well. I am considering marking it as needing some cleanup, and plan on working on it a bit once I get a chance. Robogymnast 20:17, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
Frankly I'm not even sure what the point of this article's existence is. Currently it seems to be nothing but an overlap of what should be covered by a category. Doesn't help at all that this article is PC-centric and (if we were to name the article by its current content) should be called "PC hardware". -- mattb @ 2006-11-15T04:40Z
I'm no expert in this area, but just to note that it seems to me that, as Matt pointed out, the bulk of this article could be very useful in the Personal computer article. A merge, or a more coordinated division of labour, might be something to consider. Dast 01:12, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

There is no use of a article to be this small, more information has to be added to it.But there will be no use to merge it with another article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Naveedahmedkhokhar (talk • contribs) 11:36, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Editing

How can I add a device in the input/output section? I don't see all the parts listed when I click on "edit"

I can see them fine, look again to make sure Archer7 16:49, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

motherboard is considered as the heart of the computer.

[edit] Better organization

I wonder if the Computer hardware#Computer hardware subsection (needs a better name too, since it has the same name as the main article) could maybe use a better format? The big list is kind of cumbersome to read, navigate and edit. If noone objects, I will rework this section to have a better section title and have sub sections and maybe some little descriptions (if I have time) instead of being just one massive list. I will do this later today, unless someone else has an issue with it, or wants to do it themselves (I will also add it to the todo list) --DFRussia 16:51, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

Okay, I redid the subsection to include a better name and have a better structure than just a big list. I also expanded on some of the description, but it still needs a lot of work. I also think so of that typical hardware should be moved around. Espeshially since a lot of it no longer shows up on modern computers (maybe create a legacy hardware section?) --DFRussia 04:06, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Revert

I just realized that 202.123.9.194 made an edit that can be seen in this diff: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Computer_hardware&diff=151075185&oldid=150650600 A lot of stuff was changed so I have reverted to the previous edit. DFRussia has done some major reorganization since then and I will try to fix it. Leedeth 09:50, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

Ok it's done. It gave me a headache though. Leedeth 10:19, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
My bad for not seeing the vandalism in the first place --DFRussia 23:27, 18 August 2007 (UTC)


== merging ==

i don't think that computer hardware should be merged with computer peripheral, however, peripheral device should be merged with computer peripheral, and peripheral should be deleted or rewritten.--FranzSS 03:11, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

    This makes sense.  As it stands the articles are fragmented and confusing.  --MST64 03:06, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

I personally believe that computer hardware should be left alone and computer peripheral and peripheral device should be merged between the input device and output device articles. The peripheral device article deals with the concepts of monitors, mouses, and the such, so therefore it should be combined. Icestorm815 19:33, 8 September 2007 (UTC)


I agree with Icestorm. Computer hardware is a seperate topic from computer peripherals; the articles are entirely different. This article does a great job of listing the components of a computer system, and should be left on its own. --Nemilar 04:01, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

I think that peripheral and peripheral device should be merged into this article based upon the central theme of this topic and the sparsity of information within those articles. This article needs some organization and redistribution of information and is too PC oriented. Softtest123 13:36, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

Computer Hardware is in general "on-board", and peripherals are "off-board" or outside of the "main frame" of the computer. But, on the other hand, as time has shown, what at one time could only exist as a peripheral has slowly but surely been integrated on-board. I completely agree that the two peripheral articles should be merged, and I think people might reconsider the option to merge them both into this article since peripherals are basically a subset of computer hardware on the whole. Metrax 15:20, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Descriptions and Link Issues

I finally got back to computer hardware and added some descriptions for removable media and input devices. I noticed that there are a lot of bad links in the removable media section. Can someone fix those? If noone is upto it then I will do it sometime later --DFRussia 08:59, 28 October 2007 (UTC)