| Hardware Term | Tech Factor | Acronym |
| Access Point | 6 | |
| Active-Matrix | 7 | |
| ADC | 8 | Analog-to-Digital Converter |
| ADF | 8 | Automatic Document Feeder |
| ADSL | 7 | Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line |
| AGP | 4 | Accelerated Graphics Port |
| ATA | 6 | Advanced Technology Attachment |
| Backside Bus | 9 | |
| Base Station | 5 | |
| Blu-ray | 5 | |
| Boot Disk | 4 | |
| Bridge | 8 | |
| Bus | 5 | |
| Cable Modem | 2 | |
| Card Reader | 5 | |
| CCD | 7 | Charged Coupled Device |
| CD | 1 | Compact Disc |
| CD-R | 3 | Compact Disc Recordable |
| CD-ROM | 2 | Compact Disc Read-Only Memory |
| CD-RW | 3 | Compact Disc Re-Writable |
| Chip | 4 | |
| Chipset | 9 | |
| CISC | 9 | Complex Instruction Set Computing |
| Clone | 5 | |
| Cluster | 6 | |
| CMOS | 10 | Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor |
| Compact Flash | 4 | |
| Component | 7 | |
| Computer | 1 | |
| Controller Card | 7 | |
| CPU | 3 | Central Processing Unit |
| CRT | 5 | Cathode Ray Tube |
| DAC | 7 | Digital-to-Analog Converter |
| DDR | 7 | Double Data Rate |
| DDR2 | 7 | Double Data Rate 2 |
| Degauss | 8 | |
| Digital Camera | 2 | |
| DIMM | 7 | Dual In-Line Memory Module |
| DMA | 8 | Direct Memory Access |
| Dongle | 9 | |
| Dot Pitch | 8 | |
| DRAM | 6 | Dynamic Random Access Memory |
| DSL | 2 | Digital Subscriber Line |
| DSLAM | 9 | Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer |
| Dual-Core | 6 | |
| DVD | 1 | Digital Versatile Disc |
| DVD+R | 3 | Digital Versatile Disc Recordable |
| DVD+RW | 4 | Digital Versatile Disk Rewritable |
| DVD-R | 3 | Digital Versatile Disc Recordable |
| DVD-RAM | 8 | Digital Versatile Disc Random Access Memory |
| DVD-RW | 4 | Digital Versatile Disk Rewritable |
| DVI | 5 | Digital Video Interface |
| DVR | 4 | Digital Video Recorder |
| ECC | 9 | Error Correction Code |
| EIDE | 7 | Enhanced Integrated Drive Electronics |
| Ethernet | 3 | |
| Expansion Card | 7 | |
| External Hard Drive | 5 | |
| Fiber-Optic Cable | 7 | |
| Firewire | 4 | |
| Flash Drive | 4 | |
| Flash Memory | 3 | |
| Flatbed | 3 | |
| Floppy Disk | 3 | |
| FPU | 9 | Floating Point Unit |
| FSB | 8 | Frontside Bus |
| GPU | 7 | Graphics Processing Unit |
| Hard Disk | 4 | |
| Hard Drive | 2 | |
| Hard Token | 7 | |
| Hardware | 1 | |
| HDMI | 5 | High-Definition Multimedia Interface |
| Heat Sink | 6 | |
| Host | 7 | |
| HSF | 8 | Heat Sink and Fan |
| Hub | 5 | |
| I/O Address | 9 | |
| IBM Compatible | 3 | |
| IDE | 8 | Integrated Device Electronics or Integrated Development Environment |
| IGP | 7 | Integrated Graphics Processor |
| IMAP | 6 | Internet Message Access Protocol |
| Inkjet | 4 | |
| Input Device | 4 | |
| Integrated Circuit | 7 | |
| Interface | 4 | |
| iPod | 3 | |
| IRQ | 6 | Interrupt Request |
| ISA | 7 | Industry Standard Architecture |
| Joystick | 4 | |
| Jumper | 8 | |
| Keyboard | 1 | |
| KVM Switch | 6 | Keyboard, Video, and Mouse Switch |
| Laptop | 1 | |
| Laser Printer | 4 | |
| LCD | 4 | Liquid Crystal Display |
| LED | 4 | Light-Emitting Diode |
| MAC Address | 7 | Media Access Control Address |
| Mainframe | 7 | |
| MCA | 9 | Micro Channel Architecture |
| Media | 4 | |
| Memory | 2 | |
| Memory Module | 7 | |
| Memory Stick | 4 | |
| Mirrored Volume | 7 | |
| Modem | 3 | |
| Monitor | 2 | |
| Motherboard | 5 | |
| Mouse | 1 | |
| Multiprocessing | 6 | |
| NAS | 7 | |
| NIC | 7 | Network Interface Card |
| Node | 7 | |
| Northbridge | 9 | |
| Optical Drive | 5 | |
| Optical Media | 6 | |
| OSD | 7 | On Screen Display |
| Output Device | 4 | |
| Overclocking | 8 | |
| Parallel Port | 6 | |
| PC | 2 | Personal Computer |
| PCB | 8 | Printed Circuit Board |
| PCI | 6 | Peripheral Component Interconnect |
| PCI Express | 7 | |
| PCI-X | 8 | Peripheral Component Interconnect Extended |
| PCMCIA | 8 | Personal Computer Memory Card International Association |
| PDA | 4 | Personal Digital Assistant |
| Peripheral | 4 | |
| Pipeline | 8 | |
| Plug and Play | 4 | |
| PMU | 8 | Power Management Unit |
| Power Cycle | 5 | |
| Power Supply | 5 | |
| PPGA | 10 | Plastic Pin Grid Array |
| PRAM | 9 | Parameter Random Access Memory |
| Printer | 1 | |
| Processor | 4 | |
| PROM | 8 | Programmable Read-Only Memory |
| PS/2 | 6 | Personal System/2 |
| Quad-Core | 6 | |
| RAM | 3 | Random Access Memory |
| RDRAM | 9 | Rambus Dynamic Random Access Memory |
| RFID | 7 | Radio-Frequency Identification |
| RISC | 9 | Reduced Instruction Set Computing |
| ROM | 6 | Read-Only Memory |
| Router | 6 | |
| SAN | 8 | Storage Area Network |
| SATA | 6 | Serial Advanced Technology Attachment |
| Scanner | 2 | |
| Scroll Wheel | 3 | |
| SCSI | 7 | Small Computer System Interface |
| SD | 6 | Secure Digital |
| SDRAM | 6 | Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory |
| Secondary Storage | 6 | |
| Sector | 8 | |
| Serial Port | 4 | |
| Server | 5 | |
| Shift Key | 2 | |
| SIMM | 7 | Single In-Line Memory Module |
| SLI | 9 | Scalable Link Interface |
| SMART | 9 | Self-Monitoring Analysis And Reporting Technology |
| SO-DIMM | 7 | Small Outline Dual In-Line Memory Module |
| Solid State | 5 | |
| Sound Card | 3 | |
| Southbridge | 9 | |
| Speakers | 1 | |
| SRAM | 7 | Static Random Access Memory |
| Storage Device | 4 | |
| Supercomputer | 7 | |
| Superscalar | 9 | |
| Surge Protector | 2 | |
| Switch | 5 | |
| System Requirements | 3 | |
| System Unit | 6 | |
| Tape Drive | 7 | |
| TFT | 9 | Thin-Film Transistor |
| Thick Client | 8 | |
| Thin Client | 8 | |
| Thyristor | 10 | |
| Toslink | 8 | |
| Trackball | 3 | |
| Trinitron | 7 | |
| Ultra DMA | 9 | |
| UML | 9 | Unified Modeling Language |
| UPnP | 8 | Universal Plug and Play |
| UPS | 7 | Uninterruptible Power Supply |
| USB | 2 | Universal Serial Bus |
| VDU | 8 | Visual Display Unit |
| VGA | 5 | Video Graphics Array |
| Video Card | 4 | |
| VLB | 10 | VESA Local Bus |
| Volume | 7 | |
| VRAM | 7 | Video Random Access Memory |
| Webcam | 4 | |
| Workstation | 4 | |
| X86 | 7 | |
| ZIF | 8 | Zero Insertion Force |
