Talk: Central processing unit
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From the entry: "Manufacturers and retailers of desktop computers often erroneously describe the computer case and its contents as the CPU which is misleading."
My question (and consider mentioning this in the entry): What then is the best terminology for the case and contents? Seems to me "PC usually means the case, contents, monitor, kbd, mouse etc" Saying just "case" sounds like I mean the empty case. How should we call that *THING*, (case with all contents fully assembled)? (i.e. PC minus monitor and peripherals) What?? Glueball 07:03, 17 Dec 2003 (UTC)
I use computer and sometimes PC to refer to the case and contents and occasionally use computer system to refer to the computer plus peripherals. This seems to be in line with most literature, as well.
There are many people who will think that you are talking about the monitor when you say computer, and will say hard drive when talking about the computer.
It may be a good idea to have a computer glossary page for common components, which the various computer-related articles can link to. It's frustrating to tell a user the hard drive died, and they start thinking in he hundreds of dollars, or worse yet (barely), you can't seem to get across to them that their data is gone. A glossary would an easy way to help ensure that everyone is on the same sheet of music, so to speak.
If no one else starts such a page, and one doesn't already exist, I'll see about doing it in the next few days. It would be useful as a gateway page for other computer-related articles. --Scott. 07:11, 2004 Feb 9 (UTC)
See this page, it lists the components of a computer case. Computer_hardware --Scott. 06:03, 2004 Feb 10 (UTC)
