personal computer

noun

: a general-purpose computer equipped with a microprocessor and designed to run especially commercial software (such as a word processor or Internet browser) for an individual user

Examples of personal computer in a Sentence

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Receives, configures, installs, and troubleshoots personal computer systems, printers, server applications, network switches, routers, and other electronic devices throughout Monroe County departments. —Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 29 Mar. 2024

Laptops, any type of personal computers and tablets. —Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 21 Mar. 2024

The small tech startup quickly became one America’s fastest-growing companies, overtaking the incumbent Apple and dominating the growth of personal computers in the 1990s by developing Windows, an easy-to-use operating system. —Sunny Nagpaul, Fortune, 24 Mar. 2024

January 1983 – Apple introduces the Lisa, a new brand of personal computer. —Cnn.com, The Mercury News, 21 Mar. 2024

While this hardware can be pricy compared to personal computers, the main cost for these operations is electricity use, so the miners will tend to move to places with low electricity rates. —John Timmer, Ars Technica, 2 Feb. 2024

By the mid-1980s, more powerful computers and the popularization of personal computers spurred computer use in trading. —Atal Bansal, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024

On-device is those old days of graphics cards jammed into your personal computer and most, if not all, of the accelerated computing is happening there. —Lauren Goode, WIRED, 29 Feb. 2024

Microsoft opened a company museum for its 20th in 1995, and Apple celebrated in 1997 with a special edition of its personal computer, called the Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh. —David Ingram, NBC News, 4 Feb. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1959, in the meaning defined above

Kids Definition

personal computer

noun

: a small general-purpose computer with a microprocessor