{"id":14877,"date":"2023-03-11T19:59:12","date_gmt":"2023-03-11T17:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"../../../../@p=14877"},"modified":"2023-03-11T19:59:12","modified_gmt":"2023-03-11T17:59:12","slug":"examples-of-peripheral-devices-in-computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"../../../../examples-of-peripheral-devices-in-computers/default.htm","title":{"rendered":"15 Examples of Peripheral Devices in Computers (with Pictures and Description)"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the most exciting things about computers is their nearly limitless potential. You can use computers to perform office work, model construction projects, create beautiful art, enable machine learning, play games, and so much more.<\/p>\n

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A computer’s flexibility is usually leveraged through software. If you want to try a new task you download and install a new program.<\/p>\n

But you can also add capabilities to your computer through additional hardware, and the devices you hook into a computer to do so are known as peripherals.<\/p>\n

Computer peripherals connect to the core computing unit which is the computer case housing the motherboard, CPU, RAM etc. These peripherals provide extra functionality to the whole computer system.<\/p>\n

With that in mind, peripherals can be largely grouped into a few categories and subcategories.<\/p>\n

In this article we\u2019ll explore several examples of peripheral devices in computers and explain what they do.<\/p>\n

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