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What is the difference between パソコン vs コンピューター?
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word-choice loanwords
Words for computer: パソコン or コンピューター
Generally, what Faily Feely said [in
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> パソコン is thought to be an abbreviation for パーソナルコンピューター (personal computer).

When used as パソコン, I'd imagine a (home) desktop PC.

When used as コンピューター, its meaning is generally the same as English _computer_
, I suppose.
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パソコン or "PC" is Japanese abbreviation of personal computer. Your notebook and
desktop computer are パソコン.

コンピュータ refers to electronic computor in general which ranges from desktop
business-use computors to super highspeed computors that perform quadrillion
digit culcuration in a second.
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