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| Thread ID: 146298 | 2018-06-22 20:09:00 | What do you say to people that call a desktop case the CPU | Digby (677) | PC World Chat |
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| 1450892 | 2018-06-22 20:09:00 | What do you say to people that call a desktop case the CPU These are the people, usually teachers or polytech tutors that call the box on your desk, or under it, the CPU, or Central Processing Unit. I try to explain to them that the CPU is the main chip on the motherboard. But what is a good generic term for the whole computer, including the case and all the parts. Is desktop the best term? Or just the computor? |
Digby (677) | ||
| 1450893 | 2018-06-22 20:24:00 | If they are that much uninformed it is probably just as easy to let them live on in ignorance. Anyone that has a real interest will either read up on the subject or will ask in a reasonably intelligent maner. | CliveM (6007) | ||
| 1450894 | 2018-06-22 21:24:00 | Is that the Coffee Production Unit you are talking about Digby? Ken :devil |
kenj (9738) | ||
| 1450895 | 2018-06-22 21:30:00 | What do you say to people that call a desktop case the CPU I try to explain to them that the CPU is the main chip on the motherboard. PC. Box. Computer. (Monitor is not a computer) |
piroska (17583) | ||
| 1450896 | 2018-06-22 22:00:00 | The box of bits where the magic happens | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1450897 | 2018-06-22 22:13:00 | Does it really make a difference what it is called? :( | Zippity (58) | ||
| 1450898 | 2018-06-22 23:19:00 | Call it FRED - F***RidiculousElectronicDevice. | Bryan (147) | ||
| 1450899 | 2018-06-23 01:54:00 | Makes more sense than calling it a modem, lol | Beav (17610) | ||
| 1450900 | 2018-06-23 03:21:00 | Teachers are possibly the worst for misnomers, but they do worse things to kids than they do to electronic boxes of tricks. That particular box is much like a submarine, definitely much, much better if it doesn't have Windows. ;) |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 1450901 | 2018-06-23 06:01:00 | IBM Compatible. | Nomad (952) | ||
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