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AnandTech Book Outstanding!
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I don't ever look at the ads online, so I must have missed it. If it gets put online for free reading I'll take a look at it, otherwise I'll pass.
The book goes relatively in-depth compared to most similar books, and provides a context on hardware in a manner in which it won't quickly become outdated. It does an excellent job of explaing how most hardware operates from a layman's point of view.
From that perspective it was good.
Still some of the prose was terrible at best, and the book had numerous grammatical errors throughout. Some sentences were completely incomprehensible and unintelligable. He also had some areas with information that was noticeable incomplete, and in a few respects he was factually inaccurate and it was clear he should have done more research.
Too much of the book seemed to be drawn directly from his website, and ported straight over to the book without bothering to ensure the information was still entirely accurate, and easily understood in the given context.
Good Points: Great content, solid and easy to understand explanations of computer hardware for beginners, provides a good technical overview without going over things the average person doesnt need to know.
Bad Points: Factually incorrect in some areas, grammer and sentence structure was abhorrid and, too many areas seemed to be ported directly from the website without any regards to whether it was easily understood in the given context. As a result some sentences and occasionally entire paragraphs are almost totally unintelligable.
It has a lot of potential and good information, everything is explained in an easy to understand manner.
Extremely poor writing, little care for layout, and and an apparent lack of research really hurt the book though.
It would have been a MUCH better book had Anand taken the time to write it as a book instead of simply porting over information, and he needed a copy editor so desperately it isnt even funny.
From that perspective it was good.
Still some of the prose was terrible at best, and the book had numerous grammatical errors throughout. Some sentences were completely incomprehensible and unintelligable. He also had some areas with information that was noticeable incomplete, and in a few respects he was factually inaccurate and it was clear he should have done more research.
Too much of the book seemed to be drawn directly from his website, and ported straight over to the book without bothering to ensure the information was still entirely accurate, and easily understood in the given context.
Good Points: Great content, solid and easy to understand explanations of computer hardware for beginners, provides a good technical overview without going over things the average person doesnt need to know.
Bad Points: Factually incorrect in some areas, grammer and sentence structure was abhorrid and, too many areas seemed to be ported directly from the website without any regards to whether it was easily understood in the given context. As a result some sentences and occasionally entire paragraphs are almost totally unintelligable.
It has a lot of potential and good information, everything is explained in an easy to understand manner.
Extremely poor writing, little care for layout, and and an apparent lack of research really hurt the book though.
It would have been a MUCH better book had Anand taken the time to write it as a book instead of simply porting over information, and he needed a copy editor so desperately it isnt even funny.
I looked through the book and it didn't seem like something that would interest me.
I have enjoyed reading Anand's columns in "CPU Magazine" though. CPU is probably the best 'computer' magazine that I can think of right now. They had an article on encryption in the last issue that I found very educational.
I have enjoyed reading Anand's columns in "CPU Magazine" though. CPU is probably the best 'computer' magazine that I can think of right now. They had an article on encryption in the last issue that I found very educational.
Rand Thank you for your reply. I have not noticed those type of grammer errors. And since I'm not too much of a regular i did not notice that most of the info was from the website. But one good thing about it is its in hardcopy on a book so you always have something to access if its on a website you may not beable to get to a computer that has internet access or maybe you cant bring up the info your looking for.
One thing I did notice that I was wondering about was it seems that he is sort of bias twoards Amd and the nforce chipset. I have only gotten to the chapter on chipsets but when he describes the types of chipsets for AMD products he has little blurbs about Via and Ali and Sis but a lot of info about the Nforce chipset. It appears his idea is that the Nforce from Nvidia is going to be a big deal. We shall see about that in the future as to how well boards with that chipset do. That is just what I viewed and it could be way off base. But I did want to mention my observations. You are correct in the aspect of that book seems to be most current. Everyother book I scan seems to talk about technologies that are very outdated. But I do realize given the speed our industry moves its hard to keep up on a medium such as books.
One thing I did notice that I was wondering about was it seems that he is sort of bias twoards Amd and the nforce chipset. I have only gotten to the chapter on chipsets but when he describes the types of chipsets for AMD products he has little blurbs about Via and Ali and Sis but a lot of info about the Nforce chipset. It appears his idea is that the Nforce from Nvidia is going to be a big deal. We shall see about that in the future as to how well boards with that chipset do. That is just what I viewed and it could be way off base. But I did want to mention my observations. You are correct in the aspect of that book seems to be most current. Everyother book I scan seems to talk about technologies that are very outdated. But I do realize given the speed our industry moves its hard to keep up on a medium such as books.
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