Modern tablets are capable of handling amazing depth in touch sensitivity even without AR mode enabled, and can serve as an entire self-contained computer system with AR active. Aside from supporting touchscreen capabilities, a tablet has processing power sufficient to handle a wide variety of tasks easily, display trivid broadcasts without buffering (most of the time), and conduct most business with the aplomb currently assigned to heavy-duty gaming PCs of today. It can also accept a UDT connection to recharge or receive wired data directly. Most tablets have a small camera that can be used for basic photography and filming, although many use the ones mounted on their Uplink for spontaneous photography and journalism.

An optimized, personalized system used by specialists to manipulate the electronic world to do their bidding, the Cyberdeck is of a similar size to a tablet, but usually strips out unnecessary features such as the touchscreen; it is the smallest device that supports simsense access to systems, and people with cyberdecks and simsense helmets or direct cranial implants can be seen working at the speed of thought in many high-class development firms.

Compared to the tablet, the personal computer of the era is usually a more powerful system that is connected to a hardwired network for even greater speed - the local area network of the office or home, as well as the wide area network of whatever service provider gives them access to the global area network that is the modern equivalent of the Internet. As with all computers, the options available to a personal computer are often limited only by budget and desire for customization; many purists prefer the old-fashioned keyboard-and-mouse, but AR is a standard feature, so a simple AR-rigged headset and gloves can give the same tactile experience without worry that the keys might become stuck.

These are the primary target of most hackers of the day, as interesting data can be worth a pretty penny to the right customer. On the other hand, servers are larger computers that can (if the target company chooses) be built to withstand the most powerful attacks, and even counter with their own deadly opposition. Most companies operate at least a small server to handle simple things like office mail and uplink comm rebroadcasting, and as such there is usually at least one reachable access point to make entry through.

When a single server isn't enough, the powerhouses of computing are called into play - racks of servers, usually used for massive data storage, but also useful for massive computations that one single computer might flounder under the weight of. Server racks host many a data haven or corporate headquarters platform, as well as the cloud computing headquarters of comm service providers who license space for data hosting to their customers who want to put up a page about how corgis are better than chihuahuas.

These are larger classifications of computer that take up more space than the average webserver, or even a rack of them. An average mainframe takes up an entire closet and is difficult to move without tools, while a macroframe weighs as much as a heavy car and is often used to administer to a city, major government agency, or major corporation.

Monolithic computing structures that take up entire buildings do still exist, and supposedly these lie at the heart of advanced government and corporate infrastructure systems to keep them running safely. Usually stored in very well-secured locations with extremely limited access, even directly connecting to a supercomputer is a rare thing for most normal users, and defeating one is the jewel on the crown of most 'elite' hacker types.