Talk:Personal computer hardware

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"
 * If you like to add another hardware equipment device description first find a category for it.

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)
 * No merging. Who put on discussion the mergere ? 188.25.53.194 (talk) 02:24, 26 August 2010 (UTC)

I don't think computer hardware should be merged with computer peripheral as a peripheral is a class of hardware or an accessory to a computer. Nor should anyother article such as CD-ROM, CPU, RAM, or harddrive be merged with a computer hardware article. --70.127.160.246 (talk) 20:08, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

This makes sense. As it stands the articles are fragmented and confusing. --MST64 03:06, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
 * if it is confusing for you, be kind and do the following:

put some new links, put paper bibliography, put it on a talking list to proposed deletion or contact the authors for a 2nd revision.

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)
 * Why don't put the articles under different categories ?

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)

hardware: hardware is the physical part of the computer computer parts: 1.input 2.output 3.memory 4.control

March 2013 merge proposal

 * Oppose This makes no more sense now than in the last 6 years. Not all computers are "personal computers". --Wtshymanski (talk) 15:10, 13 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Oppose This is a nonstarter in the direction proposed. We have a big gap that needs to be filled. Perhaps the best way to start might be to combine a summary of the contents of History of computing hardware, which seems the only broad article on Wikipedia that is !PC hardware, with a summary of the contents of this article into computer hardware. – Wbm1058 (talk) 20:31, 21 March 2013 (UTC)

Move
Shouldn't this all just be moved back to computer hardware, and remove the word "personal" wherever needed? Frankly, after this move it only makes it more apparent that we're missing a whole article on general computer hardware, and this article is just about close enough to it that it makes sense to just say "computer" instead of "personal computer".  GraYoshi2x► talk 02:17, 1 June 2009 (UTC)


 * No. An article on computer hardware should tackle the topic from the angle of computer architecture, based on the von Neumann machine, which has three major subsystems: storage, the central processing unit and input/output devices.  Those would be the three main sections of the article, with each discussing the physical devices used to implement the architecture, from the early days of mainframes to modern computers.  Discuss at Talk:Computer hardware. Wbm1058 (talk) 18:44, 11 January 2012 (UTC)

Class = List
After reviewing what this article is trying to do it seems apparent it is a list of sorts.


 * Meets the criteria of a stand-alone list, which is an article that contains primarily a list, usually consisting of links to articles in a particular subject area.

It looks similar to these Featured Lists:


 * ISO 3166-1


 * List of Bay Area Rapid Transit stations


 * List of Virtual Boy games


 * List of Shetland islands - We could add images of each piece of hardware in a slideshow for each section.


 * List of cities and towns in Arizona


 * Moons of Jupiter - This article adds some front matter in the sections before the list. We could have some details for each subsection instead.

If there are no major objections to this direction I will come back to start us moving toward a Featured List. &sect; Music Sorter &sect;  (talk) 06:29, 20 July 2010 (UTC)