{"id":40071,"date":"2012-12-17T19:18:42","date_gmt":"2012-12-17T19:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?p=40071"},"modified":"2012-12-17T19:18:42","modified_gmt":"2012-12-17T19:18:42","slug":"how-china-killed-the-computer-hardware-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/how-china-killed-the-computer-hardware-tutorial\/","title":{"rendered":"How China Killed The Computer Hardware Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/pctutorial.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"pctutorial\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-40076\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/br><\/p>\n<p>by Mitz Pantic from Tips4pc.com<\/p>\n<h3>How China Killed The Computer Hardware Tutorial<\/h3>\n<p>When was the last time you read a good computer hardware tutorial? I bet it was at least several years ago. Whatever happened to these fantastic documents which helped us learn all we needed to know about our computer hardware?<\/p>\n<p>It may surprise you to know (or not) that many of the network cards, mice, keyboards, and other commodity hardware we add to our computers all the same basic designs mass manufactured by the same few Chinese electronics factories. It doesn\u2019t matter what the brand name says on the device, it\u2019s probably the same as dozens of other devices under dozens of other brand names.<\/p>\n<p>How does this affect the computer hardware tutorial? It means that a computer hardware tutorial could exist for your device, but it was written for a different brand name and product name. If you can\u2019t find a tutorial, it\u2019s useless to you. Also, if the people who write tutorials know people aren\u2019t visiting it (because they can\u2019t find it), they\u2019ll be discouraged and stop writing them.<\/p>\n<p>I know this from personal experience. I used to write long, 20-plus page hardware tutorials whenever I bought a new laptop. But then the laptop market exploded and people stopped reading my tutorials\u2014and so I stopped writing them.<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/tips4pc.com\/hardware-2\/is-the-computer-hardware-tutorial-dead.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Article Continued Here<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><em>This excerpt appears with permission from Tips4PC.com<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/techtalk.pcpitstop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/pctutorial.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"pctutorial\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-40076\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When was the last time you read a good computer hardware tutorial? I bet it was at least several years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":66012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[834],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tips4pc"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>How China Killed The Computer Hardware Tutorial<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"When was the last time you read a good computer hardware tutorial? 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