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Need some clarification of the two adjacent, apparently contradictory, sentences (in 'History'): ...Commodore 64, totaled 17 million units sold, making it the best-selling single personal computer model of all time.[7][8] Another such computer, the NEC PC-98, sold more than 18 million units.[9]
Reorganize article and remove most of the "x86 PC enthusiast" geared text that is inappropriate for an article about PCs in general.
Add a well-written section talking about the dominance of various platforms and operating systems over the years. From individual proprietary systems on through the IBM PC and the DOSes, Apple's hardware, OS/2, Windows, etc. The "Non-IBM PCs" section can be nixed and incorporated here.
Improve the pictures used by the article. Pictures of peoples' PC desks are terrible; try to replace them with informative diagrams. Need pictures for the history section to show the hardware and software evolution of PCs.
Add DVD/CD-ROM peripheral section and other possible important peripherals like DSL/Wireless/Cable modems, Web Cam and Memory Stick readers.
Macs are generally not considered PCs anymore. Although technically they are, in popular culture they are not. Even the Mac commercials include "Hi I'm a Mac, and I'm a PC." This article is about cola beverages, not
Coke vs.
Pepsi.
What about polish invention - K-202?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-202 "The K-202 was capable of running one million operations per second, which was far more than similar computers of the time could manage, and faster than PCs built ten years later" Not a personal computer.
the HeathKit computers should be mentioned in the early history section: Heath H-8, H-89, and H-11 were very popular for a time, and were used not only in homes and schools but also in university labs in the early 1980s. See the Heath entry in Wikipedia.
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Some pictures are a bit old and dont show the proper modern example of their respective group, for example the LG G4 picture used for the ultra phone section, is about 10 years old and considering LG stopped their phone line a few years ago, it's very outdated.
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15:04, 15 October 2023 (UTC)reply
Modern era is since mid-1400s, so all computers (apart from ancient special-purpose such as
antikythera mechanism) are modern; maybe what you mean is 'recent'/'current', but I don't consider it important for this article to have photographs of the latest phone PCs, as only a small percentage of people get the latest ones. If recent ones don't look that different, an old photograph suffices, but feel free to upload something more current.--
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Watch PCs (inaccurate/marketing term 'smartwatch') should be listed in this... even some of the first (in that article) came with external keyboards, which of course could still be used with most/all current ones if you had access to programs or account (administrator/root) that could use a keyboard (or for repair/setup/installation).--
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