Hardware is everything that makes up a computer, laptop, or smartphone. In other words, the material components of the device. The microprocessor, video card, hard drive, flash memory, printer, scanner, camera, sensors, touchscreen, power supply, batteries, keyboard, speakers, network adapter, Bluetooth adapter, mouse, joystick, RAM, motherboard, monitor — all of this is called "hardware."


The combination of these two components, hardware and software (operating system + programs), and there is any consumer computing device (laptop, tablet, smartphone, computer).