How to Use personal computer in a Sentence

personal computer

noun

• The Apple-1 was the first personal computer sold ready to use.
  — Cheryl V. Jackson, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Mar. 2023
• Intel kept the rights for other uses, which by the end of the 1970s would come to include the personal computer.
  — Rich Karlgaard, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2021
• But an idea Lundgren had to prolong the life of personal computers could land him in prison.
  — Tom Jackman, The Seattle Times, 17 Feb. 2018
• Along with the emergence of personal computers in the 1980s came software that sped up that effort.
  — Marco Santana, OrlandoSentinel.com, 15 May 2018
• Smartphones and personal computers are about to get a lot smarter.
  — Dan Gallagher, WSJ, 24 Nov. 2023
• As long as there have been personal computers, there have been people yelling at them.
  — Kevin Kelleher, Fortune, 19 June 2018
• Find your leapfrog First of all, Apple didn’t create the first touchscreen, the first smartphone, the first MP3 player or the first personal computer.
  — Will Hall, Recode, 4 June 2018
• The dataset was so massive, a personal computer simply couldn’t process it; the reporting team had to run its analyses on the cloud.
  — Brooke Stephenson, ProPublica, 11 Mar. 2022
• But in 2011, Tegan’s personal computer files were hacked, setting off a calamitous chain of events.
  — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 30 July 2024
• Like Microsoft in the heyday of the personal computer, AWS staked its claim as the leader in a new era of computing.
  — Matt Day and bloomberg, Fortune, 5 July 2021
• The device promises patients the ability to control the mouse of their personal computer and use it to click.
  — Wired, 3 Aug. 2022
• The last thing the personal computer industry expected was to see a sales boost in 2020.
  — Karen Ho, Quartz, 29 July 2020
• Dell made much of his fortune through his namesake firm, which sells personal computers and servers.
  — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 8 June 2024
• Even in the office it's called a personal computer, nicknamed PC.
  — Guest Columnist/cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 28 Jan. 2018
• Indeed, most of the Fifth Amendment caselaw in this era predates smartphones—and in many cases the personal computer, too.
  — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 11 Aug. 2020
• Such devices don’t need to be made with cutting-edge gear, unlike the key chips found in smartphones and personal computers.
  — Ian King, Bloomberg.com, 18 May 2023
• Now, Davis said, students in 3rd through 10th grades have their own personal computer.
  — Trisha Powell Crain, AL.com, 12 Feb. 2018
• Both had a love for the newly emerging personal computer (PC) industry and spent a lot of time learning to program them on the high-school PC.
  — Dileep Rao, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2021
• But starting in the 1980s, mass adoption of the personal computer sharply curtailed the need for paper printing and copying.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 21 May 2018
• Almost all of the headsets required users to be tethered to a personal computer.
  — New York Times, 19 Aug. 2021
• Half the office was working from home, running things from personal computers and cell phones.
  — Kaitlin Reilly, refinery29.com, 13 Apr. 2020
• Another thing that today doesn’t look right in the movie is that nobody has a personal computer.
  — Stephen Wolfram, WIRED, 3 Apr. 2018
• Like the arc of the personal computer, smartphones—now more a need in the modern world than a luxurious splurge—are engaged in a race toward the bottom.
  — Sarah Krouse, WSJ, 12 Jan. 2019
• Forty years ago today, a new type of personal computer was announced that would change the world forever.
  — Jeremy Reimer, Ars Technica, 19 Jan. 2023
• For example, prices for personal computers had been falling at a rate of more than 5% in the previous three years, but only fell by 1% in the past 12 months.
  — Dan Kopf, Quartz, 15 Aug. 2019
• Its first two games will be available on most of the major gaming consoles, as well as personal computers.
  — Bloomberg, latimes.com, 12 June 2019
• Once a household name for its line of personal computers, Dell has expanded to compete in a broader swath of the IT market.
  — Bloomberg, latimes.com, 3 July 2018
• But having access to it on a personal computer is also something to keep in mind.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 8 June 2021
• The showdown threatens to roil the smartphone and personal computer markets, as well as disrupt the finances and operations of two of the most influential companies in the semiconductor industry.
  — Ewan Spence, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2024
• The action cuts to a pit mine where workers using hand tools extract coltan (columbite-tantalite), a mineral used to create the tantalum capacitors that power devices like our mobile phones, personal computers, and cameras.
  — Ruby Thélot, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024