It basically means all of computer parts that we can see inside and outside of the computer.
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Difference Between Logic Board & Motherboard


The logic board is a circuit board in an Apple Macintosh computer; in other brands of computers it is known as a motherboard. The logic board houses the crucial components of the computer system and provides connectivity for peripheral devices.


PCMag explains that a logic board is a "printed circuit board that contains logic circuits." Logic boards are plastic boards, usually green, with circuits, chips and other hardware attached to them. They house the essential components of a computer system: the microprocessor, the central processing unit (CPU), RAM and ROM memory, and the logic and ports for connecting peripheral devices such as a mouse, video display and audio devices. Logic boards contain slots (sockets) for connecting microprocessors, slots for expansion cards, slots for the RAM and ROM memory chips, a chipset interface, a clock for synchronizing the various systems, a battery, a reset button and power connectors.
As the heart of a PC, the logic board receives and broadcasts information, with the added function of coordinating various computing systems and providing the logic and connectivity for attaching peripheral devices. Without a logic board, a PC would be nothing more than a box of sophisticated but unconnected, uncoordinated circuitry, expensive but useless.
The term "Logic board" was coined by Apple in the early 1980s for the motherboards in their Macintosh computers. The phrase stuck, and they are still called logic boards to this day despite being basically the same thing as a motherboard.
A "Motherboard" is a more generic term for the same thing as a logic board. The only notable difference is a logic board is generally considered to be Macintosh, whereas a motherboard could be a Mac, PC or any other computer. The same components plug into both, like CPU, RAM, graphics cards, hard drives and optical drives.





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