The phrase "a segment of the computer" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a specific part or component of a computer system, such as hardware or software segments.
Example: "The technician replaced a segment of the computer to improve its performance."
Alternatives: "a part of the computer" or "a component of the computer".
Of course, a segment of the population, particularly those whose computers seized up last week, have complicated feelings toward Mr. Gates and his ilk.
Yet animation was only a minor segment of the computer division at Lucasfilm; a more sizable chunk was devoted to hardware — actual computers, including the Pixar Imaging Computer, an unlovely gray block that might, it was hoped, be of use in medical research.
A thriving segment of the computer business has popped up to fulfill their need for speed: Falcon Northwest, Game-PC, Hypersonic PC and AlienWare among others.
The private business of counting votes in public elections can be realistically understood only as a small, if extremely important, segment of the computer industry itself, and thus a business that has both the strengths and the weaknesses of the over-all industry.
He loaded his G3 Mac with Speech Extraction System, the software his company sells, and fed a segment of audiotape into the computer.
The problem in this segment of the computer business, as in the field at large, is not only invisibility but also information as electricity.
They are the hottest segment of the computer market, according to research firm, International Data Corporation.
EMC and Dell are in complementary segments of the computer industry and if all goes well the two companies might be more valuable together than apart.
In 2002 the public-art presenters Creative Time are planning a series of wireless-based projects, including one that will transform a segment of SoHo sidewalk into a computer screen that displays text messages sent from cellular telephones.
Computer software (Qlab, Philips, Germany) which analyzed the cIMT-distance automatically at 64 points within a segment of 10 mm was adopted; the value given was the arithmetic mean cIMT calculated.
